MILWAUKEE - More than 50 years ago, seeing a Black woman deliver the weather on television was nearly unimaginable. But June Bacon-Bercey changed that reality — and the face of broadcast meteorology ...

Weather, like many other fields, wouldn’t be where it is today without vital contributions from African Americans. Again, like many other fields, it was believed that African Americans weren’t smart ...

In 1971, Bacon-Bercey became the first Black woman and the first woman overall to serve as a television meteorologist, defying systemic racial and gender discrimination. Driven by a childhood ...