Liz Walker (journalist)

Liz Walker, the first black woman to co-anchor a newscast in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, was installed as Pastor of the Roxbury Presbyterian Church in May 2014. She had served as "transitional leader" since 2011.

She graduated from Olivet College in Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications. In 2005 she graduated from Harvard Divinity School with a master's degree focusing on religion and women’s issues. She is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi and American Women in Radio and Television.

Walker was the evening news anchor at WBZ-TV since 1981. In 1987, she was reportedly making $500,000 a year. But her career began in her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas working as the public affairs director. On-air assignments in Denver (KMGH-TV) and San Francisco (KRON-TV) followed before she moved to Boston and WBZ in 1980.

After doing a story on the Lost Boys of Sudan, she began to re-evaluate her life. Ultimately, this led to her enrolling at the Harvard Divinity School in September 2001.

In January 2002, she produced an independent documentary on Sudan entitled In the Lion's Mouth.”

Walker has been inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. She has won two Emmy Awards. In 2001, the Crittenton Women's Union gave her the Amelia Earhart Award.

Her coverage of Sudan led to an Edward R. Murrow Award for a News Story by the Regional Television Radio News Director’s Association in 2002.

Walker has a son. She is originally from Little Rock, Arkansas and the daughter of a minister.

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