Black History All Year 2020 . . Beginning in 1983, Roberts honed her broadcasting skills as a sports reporter and anchor at local television stations in Hattiesburg and Biloxi, Mississippi, Atlanta, Georgia, and Nashville, Tennessee.  In 1990, she joined ESPN as a sportscaster and host of Sportscenter.  During this time, she also lent her talents as a reporter to ABC News as well as Good Morning America. Roberts became co-anchor, along with George Stephanopoulos, of GMA in May 2005.  Soon after she and Stephanopoulos took lead of the show, it became the number-one-ranked morning news show in April 2012, beating out NBC’s Today show, which had previously been the top morning show for 16 years. . . Roberts became an author in March 2007 with From the Heart: 7 Rules to Live By.  She followed with an updated version, From the Heart: 8 Rules to Live By, which includes an additional chapter on her battle with breast cancer in 2008. Roberts is the recipient of a host of awards and accolades, including being inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012, a Susan G. Komen Foundation award, the 2013 Arthur Ashe Courage Award, and, in 1994, she was inducted in the Women’s Institute on Sport and the Education Foundation’s Hall of Fame. . . #blackwomenintelevision #espn #espnanchors #tvhost #goodmorningamerica #abc #sportscenter #anchorwoman #blackanchorwoman #breastcancersurvivor #breastcancerawareness #robinroberts #womeninbusinessrock (at Tuskegee, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-fbGrUgItB/?igshid=v9v38qenmikw

Day 26 of Black History Month challenge: One black history post everyday for the entire month. . . Beginning in 1983, Roberts honed her broadcasting skills as a sports reporter and anchor at local television stations in Hattiesburg and Biloxi, Mississippi, Atlanta, Georgia, and Nashville, Tennessee.  In 1990, she joined ESPN as a sportscaster and host of Sportscenter.  During this time, she also lent her talents as a reporter to ABC News as well as Good Morning America. Roberts became co-anchor, along with George Stephanopoulos, of GMA in May 2005.  Soon after she and Stephanopoulos took lead of the show, it became the number-one-ranked morning news show in April 2012, beating out NBC’s Today show, which had previously been the top morning show for 16 years. . . Roberts became an author in March 2007 with From the Heart: 7 Rules to Live By.  She followed with an updated version, From the Heart: 8 Rules to Live By, which includes an additional chapter on her battle with breast cancer in 2008. Roberts is the recipient of a host of awards and accolades, including being inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012, a Susan G. Komen Foundation award, the 2013 Arthur Ashe Courage Award, and, in 1994, she was inducted in the Women’s Institute on Sport and the Education Foundation’s Hall of Fame. . . #blackwomenintelevision #espn #espnanchors #tvhost #goodmorningamerica #abc #sportscenter #anchorwoman #blackanchorwoman #breastcancersurvivor #breastcancerawareness #robinroberts #womeninbusinessrock (at Tuskegee, Alabama) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9C4SvEgPt6/?igshid=1c9xb0lum3bra