One of those nominations was for a story about the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and President Bill Clinton’s apology for the government’s use of black men in Macon County Alabama as human guinea pigs. She has received numerous other awards including Best Spot News coverage awards from the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association, the Radio Television News Directors Association, and the Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists. She has covered some of the most interesting and important stories of the past few decades, from the Boston busing desegregation crisis to the Air Florida plane crash into Washington’s 14^th Street Bridge, to the 9/11 Pentagon terrorist attack, to travels with Ronald Reagan, the John Hinckley trial, the trials and tribulations of DC’s infamous Mayor Marion Barry, and the DC area sniper attacks.

 Since retiring, Karen has penned the memoir, Daughter of the Boycott and spent a year contributing to an opinion page column (Alabama Voices) in the Montgomery Advertiser newspaper.

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