Dorothy Butler Gilliam
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam was the first black woman reporter at The Washington Post
and helped organise protests against the New York Daily News
after it fired two-thirds of its African-American staff, including all of the black male reporters. She was married to Sam Gilliam
a well known abstract artist
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In 1997, Gilliam created the Young Journalists Development Program for the Post, which was designed to bring more young people into the journalism world. Post journalists work with students at local high schools, and in some cases, the Post prints the high school newspapers for the schools.
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
and helped organise protests against the New York Daily News
New York Daily News
The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....
after it fired two-thirds of its African-American staff, including all of the black male reporters. She was married to Sam Gilliam
Sam Gilliam
Sam Gilliam is internationally recognized as one of America's foremost Color Field Painter and Lyrical Abstractionist artists....
a well known abstract artist
Abstract art
Abstract art uses a visual language of form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an...
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In 1997, Gilliam created the Young Journalists Development Program for the Post, which was designed to bring more young people into the journalism world. Post journalists work with students at local high schools, and in some cases, the Post prints the high school newspapers for the schools.