Trudy Haynes funeral, burial, pictures, date, time, venue

Trudy Haynes was a news reporter in the United States who died on June 7, 2022.

In 1963, she became the country’s first African American TV weather reporter for WXYZ-TV in Detroit.

Haynes joined Eyewitness News in 1965, becoming the city’s first Black TV reporter. Faced with sexism and prejudice at times, but always rising above it. And she earned their admiration.

Haynes swiftly rose to prominence, interviewing people such as Martin Luther King, President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Muhammad Ali. Despite the bigotry and discrimination, she endured as a Black woman in the profession, she built a name for herself.

She became the first African American TV news reporter for KYW-TV in Philadelphia in 1965, a position she held until her retirement in 1999.

Janelle Burrell says she’s learned to “know and love” Miss Trudy over the previous five years. Haynes had called her and reminded her that they still needed to get together for a drink to celebrate her birthday.

CBS3 and the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists collaborate to present the Trudy Haynes Scholarship to a college student pursuing a career in journalism or communications.

She was 95.

Trudy Haynes funeral, burial, pictures, date, time, venue

Her funeral is yet to be held

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