Sam Whiting April 22, 2021Updated: April 23, 2021, 12:55 am
Jerri Lange at a book signing for “Jerri: A Black Woman’s Life in the Media,” published in 2005 Photo: Carmen Stone
Pioneering Black television talk show host and producer Jerri Lange got her first job in journalism in 1964 after joining a street protest calling attention to the lack of reporters of color.
The protest, outside The Chronicle, resulted in Lange being hired as secretary to the newspaper’s executive editor, Scott Newhall, she wrote in her memoir. From that job, she went on to work at City Hall, then shifted to television when UHF channels started expanding the dial.
Editorial: S.F. school board must not undermine its academic high school
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Lowell High School is considered one of the best public schools in the country.Nick Otto/Special to The Chronicle
The San Francisco Board of Education seems to be going out of its way to undermine the reputation and appeal of the city’s public schools. Next step for its the tone-deaf, homework-deficient elected members: basing admission to Lowell High School, nationally recognized for its academic excellence, on a random lottery instead of grades and test scores.
The school board is scheduled to take up the proposal Tuesday while still drawing deserved heat from within the city and far beyond for its 6-1 vote last week to rename 44 schools for the sometimes real, sometimes overblown and sometimes historically wrong faults of everyone from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln to Robert Louis Stevenson and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.