Robin René Roberts is an American

United States

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 television broadcaster. Roberts is the co-anchor of ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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's morning show Good Morning America

Good Morning America

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Roberts grew up in Pass Christian, Mississippi

Pass Christian, Mississippi

Pass Christian , nicknamed The Pass, is a city in Harrison County, Mississippi, United States, along the Gulf of Mexico. It is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, where she played basketball

Basketball

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 and tennis

Tennis

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, among other sports. She attended Pass Christian High School and graduated as the class of 1979 salutatorian

Salutatorian

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. Her parents are Lawrence

Lawrence E. Roberts

Lawrence Edward Roberts was a pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen and a colonel in the United States Air Force, with 32 years of total military service. He is the father of newscaster Robin René Roberts.-Personal life:...

 and Lucimarian Roberts. In a 2006 presentation to the assembled student body at Abilene Christian University

Abilene Christian University

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, Roberts credited her parents as cultivating the "three Ds: Discipline, Determination, and "De Lord." She is the youngest of four children with siblings Sally-Ann, Lawrence "Butch", and Dorothy.