Journalist Gwen Ifill to be honored with USPS Forever stamp

[Dennis Donovan]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/journalist-gwen-ifill-honored-usps-forever-stamp/story?id=66444684&cid=social_twitter_abcn

By ELLA TORRESOct 22, 2019, 12:49 PM ET

Trailblazing journalist Gwen Ifill will be memorialized on a new U.S. Postal Service Forever stamp.

She will be the face of the 43rd stamp in the Black Heritage series, according to a press release from USPS on Tuesday. The stamp features a photo of her taken in 2008 by photographer Robert Severi.


The 43rd stamp in the Black Heritage series honors Gwen Ifill (1955–2016), one of America’s most esteemed journalists.USPS

She later became a member of the first female co-anchor team on PBS NewsHour, where she worked for 17 years and covered eight presidential campaigns and moderated two vice-presidential debates.

Sherrilyn Ifill, Gwen Ifill's cousin who serves as the president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education fund, said on Twitter she "literally cannot catch [her] breath!"

"Gwen is deserving of every honor for her contributions to this country. But this one is special," she wrote.

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1. This makes me so happy.

I admired Ms. Ifill very much. She was a worthy role model for so many people--journalists, women, African-Americans, anyone with an honest interest in the world around us.

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3. +1

Well said.

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2. Badass

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4. I'll be buying a couple sheets of those.

I try to support the USPS whenever I can and this stamp is really something I can get behind. She was a very important fixture in the world of journalism and I am thankful to have witnessed a good deal of it.