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, the San Francisco CBS station, in 1966.

She spent three decades working as a reporter and anchor, with lengthy tenures at KPIX, the former NBC affiliate KRON, and at public TV station KQED.

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.

"I had learned to write because I was writing for JET magazine and weekly newspapers," she said during a 2018 interview. "And I learned to speak because I was on radio stations, you know, giving the news or doing women's news or wha

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