Gwen Ifill

February 8, 2008

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Profile America for the eighth day of Black History Month. Gwen Ifill is the senior correspondent for the daily PBS television program “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” and the host of “Washington Week.” Before joining PBS, she was chief congressional and political correspondent for NBC, and was a reporter for several major newspapers. She moderated the vice presidential candidates debate in 2004. Ifll has received more than a dozen honorary doctorates and several awards for excellence in broadcasting, including the National Press Foundation and the Radio Television News Directors Association. There are 78,000 news analysts, reporters and correspondents in the U.S., 4 percent of them are African-American. This special edition of Profile America for Black History Month is a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.