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Updated: July 12, 2025 9:27 PM CT

One day in late May 1977, a young Black man took a seat at a desk for his first day as a reporter at The Commercial Appeal.

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Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.

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