She is notable as a pioneering broadcaster who presented the UK's first Black news and current affairs magazine television programme, Ebony, launched in 1982.
She would send articles she had written to the local newspaper, the Hackney Gazette, where she was published using a name that did not make it obvious she was black and female.
She said in an interview for the 1982 book It Ain't Half Racist Mum: Fighting racism in the media (edited by Phil Cohen and Carl Gardner):[4] "I started at 18, when most people in the office were young, left of centre, and anti-racist.
[8] She was a reporter for John Craven's Newsround, with other credits as a presenter including Songs of Praise, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Newsroom South East, LWT News, Granada Reports, and Central News.
[5] These have included over the years: Talawa Theatre Company, artsdepot, the Mary Seacole Memorial Statue Appeal, the Amos Bursary (which champions academic excellence and professional development in young men and women of African and Caribbean heritage), and chair of publishing charity FHALMA (Friends of the Huntley Archives at the London Metropolitan Archives), and she was a founding member of the BBC's diversity and inclusion forum.