George Boyd (playwright)

George Boyd
Born30 June 1952
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died7 July 2020
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation(s)Playwright, news anchor

George Elroy Boyd (June 30, 1952 – July 7, 2020) was a playwright and a former co-host of the CBC Morning News. He was the first black national news anchor in Canada, working as an original anchor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Newsworld, which launched in 1989.[1]

  1. ^ Patil, Anjuli (July 25, 2020). "George Elroy Boyd, Canada's first Black national news anchor, dies at 68". CBC.ca. Retrieved July 25, 2020.