Monday, November 14 Journalist Gwen Ifill passed away. During her career she covered things like the White House Press Releases, Congressional activity, and National Campaigns over the course of three decades for the Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC and PBS. It’s said that she died of complications uterine cancer.

Ms. Ifill was is in the forefront of a journalism vanguard as a Black woman. She achieved her highest visibility most recently, as the moderator and managing editor of the Public Affairs Program. She also was the author of ”The Breakthrough:Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, a book published the day President Obama was inaugurated in 2009. Many of her coworkers said that Gwen Ifill was a woman filled with integrity and fairness and that she was well-respected. Since she was nine years old, she knew right away that she wanted to become a journalist. Ifill said she loved reporting on presidential politics not so much because of the candidates, but because of the people it allowed her to talk to.  Gwen Ifill was a true icon of her work and she will be missed.