Lorenzo “Lo” Jelks, Atlanta’s first Black television news reporter, has died at 83, sources say.
Lorenzo “Lo” Jelks, Atlanta’s first Black television news reporter, has died at 83, according to the Atlanta Press Club and CNN affiliate WSB. After graduating from Clark College , Jelks was hired in 1967 by WSB-TV, where he stayed for nearly a decade, according to the Atlanta Press Club.
“He really shined the light on the importance of education and I think in many ways changed the landscape of race relations in Atlanta and certainly in Georgia by his reporting,” Jocelyn Dorsey, former WSB director of editorials and public affairs, said in a tribute video for Jelks posted by the Atlanta Press Club. In 2022, Jelks was inducted into the Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame.
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