Juliette Alexandra

Biography:

Juliet Alexander is a British educator, journalist, and television host who was born in Guyanese. She has worked in print and broadcast journalism, as well as a variety of educational and community institutions, for almost forty years. She is renowned for being a trailblazing broadcaster who introduced Ebony, the first Black news and current affairs magazine television program in the UK, in 1982.

Juliet Alexander, who was born in Guyana, immigrated to the UK in 1965 and spent the 1970s growing up in east London. She would submit articles she wrote to the Hackney Gazette, the local newspaper, where she was published under a pseudonym that concealed her gender and race. After that, she was able to secure employment there, where she spent five years as a junior reporter. In an interview with Phil Cohen and Carl Gardner’s 1982 book It Ain’t Half Racist Mum: Fighting racism in the media, she stated:  “I started at 18, when most people in the office were young, left-of-center, and anti-racist.”