Longtime Detroit reporter Al Allen has died at the age of 79, Fox 2 Detroit announced on Wednesday. The station reports that he died Tuesday night at the hospital.
Allen spent more than five decades covering Detroit in various roles. The Arkansas native started covering news for WJLB radio in the 1970s, according to the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame . He originally came to Detroit to work at WGPR-FM, the first Black-owned TV station in the country .
Allen joined us in 2023 as we held a Black History Month roundtable at WGPR .
A Black History Month roundtable at WGPR
According to the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame, Allen joined Fox 2 in 1984 and was with the station until his retirement in 2012…