Sharon Dahlonega Bush (born Sharon Daisy Raiford) is an American television

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and print

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."Additions Made To Newswatch 3 Staff" ''The Commercial Appeal'', February 3, 1981. She was born in

Greensboro, North Carolina Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte and Raleigh, the 69th-most populous city in the Un ...

, and resides in

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. She was an executive producer of the 1985 National

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Education

Bush studied philosophy at

North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (also known as North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina A&T, N.C. A&T, or simply A&T) is a public, historically black land-grant research university in Greensboro, North Caro ...

. She later studied at the

University of Detroit The University of Detroit Mercy is a private Roman Catholic university in Detroit, Michigan. It is sponsored by both the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and the Sisters of Mercy. The university was founded in 1877 and is the largest Catholic universi ...

, the US Naval Air Technical Training Command and

Georgia State University Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a Public university, public research university in Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. It is also the ...

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

."Anchoring the News", ''Memphis Tri-State Defender'', September 7, 1984.

Career

Bush became American television's first

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female weather anchor of

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news in 1975 at WGPR-TV, the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.TV Week, ''Greensboro Daily News'', December 12, 1976. Sharon Crews (as she was then known) later anchored news and weather at

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and

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network affiliates in

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and

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, respectively, before becoming an

Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...

, correspondent and executive producer for

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. Bush worked as a morning news anchor at

WGHP-TV WGHP (channel 8) is a television station licensed to High Point, North Carolina, United States, serving the Piedmont Triad region as an affiliate of the Fox network. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and maintains studios on Francis ...

, the then-

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affiliate in

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. She was an executive producer of the 1985 National

Personal life

Bush is married to

Grand L. Bush Grand Lee Bush (born December 24, 1955) is an American actor of stage, television and major motion pictures. Early life and education Bush was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actor Robert Bush and his wife Essie Bush. Shakespearean- ...

.Grand L. Bush profile
imdb.com; retrieved March 10, 2007.

References

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