Renee Poussaint was an award-winning broadcast journalist who died on Friday, March 4, 2022.

She was a native New Yorker who attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Poussaint enrolled in a doctorate degree at Columbia University before joining CBS 2 as a news writer, reporter and anchor in 1973.

Poussaint was a member of CBS 2’s news crew in the early to mid-1970s, during the tenures of Bill Kurtis and Walter Jacobson as weekday evening anchors.

She was 77 years old.

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Renee Poussaint cause of death

Poussaint died peacefully at her home in Washington at the age of 77

Poussaint co-edited, with Camille Cosby, a 2007 book of interviews titled A Wealth of Wisdom: Legendary African American Elders Speak.

Was Renee Poussaint married? Did Renee Poussaint have children?

Renee Poussaint was married to Henry Richardson.

Her children were never documented.

When is Renee Poussaint funeral? Date, time, venue, burial service, obituary poster

The former multi-time Emmy winner’s funeral is yet to be planned out or scheduled.