She Broke Stories, Barriers & The Boys’ Club — Trailblazing Journalist Florence ‘Flo’ Anthony, Who Proved Black Women Belong In Every Newsroom, Dead At 74
Florence “Flo” Anthony, who broke down barriers for Black women in journalism and media, died on August 6 after a battle with cancer. The post She Broke Stories, Barriers & The Boys’ Club — Trailblazing Journalist Florence ‘Flo’ Anthony, Who Proved Black Women Belong In Every Newsroom, Dead At 74 appeared first on MadameNoire.
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Florence “Flo” Anthony, a pioneering entertainment journalist, former national syndicated radio host, TV contributor, and the author of several books, who broke down barriers for Black women, died after a battle with cancer on August 6. She was 74.
The news was confirmed by Jack Hirsch, the biographer of her husband, Olympic and pro boxing champ Michael Spinks, to New York Amsterdam News, which published her weekly “Go With The Flo” column dating back to 2001. She also had a nationally syndicated radio segment called “Gossip to Go With Flo” and another called “Flo Anthony’s Big Apple Buzz.”
Anthony and Hirsch collaborated on Michael “Jinx” Spinks: An Authorized Biography, which was released in March. He shared that she had recently disclosed to him that she had cancer.
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