Belva Davis, a Bay Area broadcasting trailblazer, died at 92 on Wednesday morning after a long illness.

Davis was the first African-American woman to become a television news reporter on the West Coast when she was hired at KPIX in 1966.

She spent three decades working as a reporter and anchor for KPIX.

Davis covered all kinds of news, politics and culture. She was not shy to place herself at the heart of the story, no matter where it took her.

She covered the likes of Mohammad Ali, Martin Luther King Jr., the Hearst family and she even traveled to Cuba and met with Fidel Castro. Davis covered countless other big stories.

Being a barrier breaker was not without its costs. Belva said she was often asked to leave news conferences because people couldn't believe that she, a Black woman,

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