Before Kim Kardashian turned scandal into empire and Paris Hilton made headlines from leaked footage, there was Jayne Kennedy — a groundbreaking broadcaster whose private moment became public nightmare, forcing one of television’s most beloved pioneers into a decade-long retreat from the spotlight that nearly broke her spirit entirely.

The woman who shattered barriers as the first Black female sports correspondent on CBS’ “The NFL Today” is finally ready to tell her story.

Kennedy’s upcoming memoir, “Plain Jayne,” chronicles her journey from Miss Ohio 1970 to television trailblazer to a woman so devastated by public humiliation that she couldn’t look people in the eye for ten years. Her recent appearance on the “Tamron Hall” show marked a powerful moment of vulnerability as the 73-year-o

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