Makupson held positions at
WSM-TV in Nashville and
WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., before moving back to Detroit in 1975 to work as director of public relations for Head Start, the Michigan Health Maintenance Organization. That same year, Makupson was hired by
WGPR-TV, the nation's first African-American owned television station, to anchor
Big City News and the Detroit focused talk show
Porterhouse. In 1977, Makupson joined WKBD as news anchor and public affairs director. At WKBD, she hosted
Morning Break, the station's daily talk show, and produced and anchored a five-minute newsbreak called
TV50 News Scene. In 1985, Makupson was appointed co-anchor of WKBD's newly-launched ''Ten O'Clock News
; beginning in 2001, she also began to anchor 62 CBS Eyewitness News at 11'' on WKBD's sister station,
WWJ-TV (ironically, the former WGPR). Amyre left the duopoly following the closure of the two stations' news department in December 2002. Her parents, Dr. Rudolph Hannibal and Amyre Ann Porche Porter, sent her to Detroit's Visitation Catholic Elementary School and she graduated from St. Mary's Academy High School in Monroe, Michigan, in 1965. She earned her B.A. degree in dramatics and speech from
Fisk University in 1970 and her M.A. degree in speech arts/communications theory from
American University in 1972. In November 2003, she acted in a local play in Detroit and wrote a book about death, ''So... What's Next?''. She was nominated for an Exemplary Volunteer Service Award by Michigan Gov.
Jennifer Granholm in 2007. Though she is now retired from television news, her daughter (also named Amyre Makupson) was recently a primary news anchor at
WGXA in
Macon, GA. Amyre II has since been hired by, ironically, her mother's old stations WWJ and WKBD, as "executive producer of community impact" for the new
CBS News Detroit, set to launch in January 2023. ==References==