A Granddaughter of the Dust and the Movement: A Conversation with Mignon Clyburn, Former Chairwoman and Commissioner of the FCC
Update: 2020-06-13
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The Honorable Mignon Clyburn, is a Charleston, SC native, and former Commissioner and Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission. Ms. Clyburn made history as the first African American woman to served as Chairwoman of the FCC under President Barack H. Obama's Administration. She is the eldest daughter of U.S. Representative James E. Clyburn (Democrat, South Carolina 6th District) and the late Emily England Clyburn, a retired librarian and educator.
Mignon is a graduate of the University of South Carolina-Columbia; and former editor and publisher of The Coastal Times, one of two black-owned newspapers that served Charleston, Berkeley and Dorchester counties in the South Carolina Low Country.
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