Belva Davis, a Bay Area broadcasting trailblazer, died at 92 on Wednesday morning after a long illness.

Davis was the first African-American woman to become a television news reporter on the West Coast when she was hired at KPIX in 1966.

She spent three decades working as a reporter and anchor for KPIX.

Davis covered all kinds of news, politics and culture. She was not shy to place herself at the heart of the story, no matter where it took her.

"I had learned to write because I was writing for JET magazine and weekly newspapers," she said during a 2018 interview. "And I learned to speak because I was on radio stations, you know, giving the news or doing women's news or whatever I was allowed to do on radio. So, you put the two together, and so all I had to learn to do then was stand st

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