SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Legendary Bay Area news anchor Belva Davis passed away Wednesday morning at the age of 92.
Davis spent five decades covering news in the Bay Area, starting in the 1960s.
She was the first woman of color to work as a television news reporter anywhere on the West Coast.
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“She set an example, we got to see her on television as we were growing up here in the city and we got to see how someone like her could possibly be out there doing the work that she was doing,” former San Francisco Mayor London Breed said. “We knew that because of people like Belva Davis, we could actually achieve whatever we wanted.”
Davis had roots in the Bay Area, growing up in Oakland and graduating from Mills College.
She was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2018.
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