Bea Hines

Bea Hines
Born12 February 1938 Edit this on Wikidata
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OccupationReporter Edit this on Wikidata
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External videos
video icon “History making journalist Bea Hines”, CBS Miami, August 28, 2023.

Bea Hines (February 12, 1938-) became the Miami Herald's first African-American female reporter in 1970.[1][2] Her career at the Herald has lasted over 50 years.[1] Hines has said that she considers it her “responsibility to be a watch-person for people who can't fight for themselves.”[3]

In 1981, her front-page columns were nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.[4] Their topics included police brutality and profiling.[5] In 1985 Hines was named one of the top five woman columnists in the United States by Savvy magazine.[4][3] Hines received the Royal Palm Award from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Miami Chapter in 2023.[1]

Hines appeared in the 2013 documentary, Instruments of Change.[4] Hines' oral history has been recorded by The HistoryMakers.[4] Her papers are located at The Black Archives History & Research Foundation of South FL, Inc.[6]

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