Accidental Anchorwoman: A Memoir of Chance, Choice, Change, and Connection

"She is a new kind of celebrity-a television superstar reporter-bred by television and its peculiar kind of intimacy which brings her into the living rooms or bedrooms or kitchens of almost a million viewers every night."-New York Times

For 30 years on TV, she told other people's stories. Now she's telling her own.

In 1967, by accident, Melba Tolliver was the first Black American to anchor network news, going ...