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Today’s Back To School History Maker is journalist Sandra Hughes.
She earned her diploma from Notre Dame High School in Greensboro in 1964 before earning her B.S. degree in English education from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1969. Hughes was hired as a general assignment reporter at WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1972,and was the first female African-American talk show host in the Piedmont region with Sandra and Friends in 1974.
Hughes is the first African-American woman in the Southeast to host PM Magazine in 1978, before co-hosting the Good Morning Show in 1985. That same year, she began serving as manager of WFMY-TV’s community affairs department.
In 1990, she began anchoring the evening news segment for WFMY-TV before retiring in 2010. Hughes became an adjunct professor of journalism at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 2011.
History Maker Sandra Hughes discusses the importance of the Back to School History Maker Program
