When Napoleon Johnson began his storied career at KPRC 2 in 1971, he was the fourth African American television broadcast journalist in Houston—providing a platform for an entirely new generation of Black journalists to embark on and forge their paths.
“It’s totally new and beautiful, and I really would need a map to get around this,” Johnson said. “It’s much different from what I remember, and we moved into a very modern, you know, state-of-the-art building back in the day, but this is an even greater improvement.”
When Napoleon Johnson began his storied career at KPRC in 1971, he was the fourth African American television broadcast journalist in Houston—providing a platform for an entirely new generation of Black journalists to embark on and forge their paths. Listen to him reflect on his storied career. Video produced by Karina Hollingsworth.
“Most of the awards I won, as I recall, are on the medical side. I did a five-part documentary on heart disease . . . I did at least three documentaries over the years, mostly on the medical side, so I was the education and medical reporter.”
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