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Getty Images Flo Anthony, an entertainment journalist known for being the first Black woman to work for the New York Post’s entertainment and Page Six departments, died Thursday after a battle with cancer. She was 74.
Anthony’s death was confirmed to Variety by Jack Hirsch, the biographer of Anthony’s husband, Michael Spinks. While working as a journalist, Anthony frequently made history, becoming the first woman to work in the New York Post’s sports department. She later became the first Black woman to write for a supermarket tabloid with National Examiner’s “Eye on the Stars.”
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