The Washington Post’s first black female reporter tells her inspiring story in Oakland

The first black woman reporter to work at the Washington Post newspaper, a pioneer who mentored many journalists in the Bay Area and the country, discussed her six-decade career March 30 at Oakland’s Kapor Center.

Dorothy Butler Gilliam talked about her new book, “Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist’s Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America,” with Martin Reynolds, former Oakland Tribune editor and co-executive director of the Oakland-based Maynard Institute.