Born in
Jacksonville, Florida to Army Major Bennie L. Canty and schoolteacher Bess Canty, Black spent her childhood on Army bases Camp Sullivan in
Whittier, Alaska and Fort Eustis in Virginia before settling with her parents and siblings in Jacksonville. After graduating from Bishop Kinney Catholic School, she traveled to
Nashville to attend
Vanderbilt University, ultimately transferring to and graduating from
Jacksonville University with a BA in English. Black is known for her 12-year career spent at KABC-TV. Primarily a field reporter and weekend anchor who periodically anchored alongside
Jerry Dunphy on weeknights, she was a member of the
Eyewitness News team of the late 1970s and 1980s. Some of her professional experiences involve hosting the nationwide "Evening of the Stars"
United Negro College Fund telethon, producing a documentary on blacks in
Hollywood, training as a firefighter with the
Los Angeles Fire Department, and covering a
Ku Klux Klan triple cross burning during her time on the Los Angeles airwaves. Black is a veteran news reporter and anchor, having worked for KABC-TV and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, California, and for enterprises such as
Headline News,
PBS, and
Turner Entertainment. ==References==