BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Henry Stewart III, one of the first Black on-air reporters in Baton Rouge television history and a longtime presence at WAFB, has died. He was 90.
Stewart joined WAFB in 1972, becoming a pioneer in local broadcast journalism at a time when few Black journalists appeared on television news in the city. He spent 13 years at the station, earning respect for his professionalism and reporting.
Over the course of his career, Stewart conducted notable interviews with figures including Mother Teresa, civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke…