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Ernest Dunbar

1928–2011

United States

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Ernest Dunbar (1927–2011) was a pioneering African-American journalist and book author, who was the first African-American reporter hired at a mainstream national magazine and was elected posthumously to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).

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