Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush
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Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush at Yamashiro Hollywood on December 7, 2013
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Sharon Daisy Raiford February 29, 1952 Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Other names | Sharon Crews |
| Spouse(s) | Grand L. Bush (m. 1994) |
Sharon Dahlonega Bush (born Sharon Daisy Raiford; February 29, 1952) is an American television newscaster and print journalist. She was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and resides in Los Angeles, California.
Bush studied philosophy at North Carolina A&T State University. She later studied at the University of Detroit, the US Naval Air Technical Training Command and Georgia State University at Atlanta.
Bush became American television's first African-American female weather anchor of primetime news in 1975 at WGPR-TV, the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.
Sharon Crews (as she was then known) later anchored news and weather at CBS and NBC network affiliates in North Carolina and Tennessee, respectively, before becoming an Atlanta, Georgia, correspondent and executive producer for Black Entertainment Television.
Bush worked as a morning news anchor at an ABC affiliate in High Point, North Carolina, then licensed as WGHP-TV. She was an executive producer of the 1985 National Blues Music Awards.
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