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| Books to Give, Books to Get The Trib makes history: She was one of Britain 's first black female newscasters; now the queen has honored her as a Member of the Order of the British Empire and she's the author of a new book -- and Jacqui Harper credits her success to the Oakland Tribune. During a college year abroad at UC Berkeley, the Sussex native worked at the Trib, and saw African-American print and broadcast journalists everywhere -- though back in the UK , such a sight was still rarer than rare. Mentors at the Trib convinced Harper that when she went home she could change all that, and she did. Twenty-plus years later, the Voices of Experience (How To, $24.75) author -- who hosted the BBC London morning and evening news and her own talk show -- insists it wouldn't have happened if not for her continental shift. |
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