Collection Highlights: Marylandia Update
Contributed by Jordan Wohlfort, Collection Development Librarian
May 2022
Emmy-award-winning journalist and news correspondent Byron Pitts was born and raised in Baltimore. Pitts’ journey to success involved overcoming both a stutter and poor literacy skills. After working in local television up and down the East Coast, Pitts began his national career with CBS, and eventually became co-anchor of ABC’s Nightline. Check out his memoir, newly added to the Marylandia collection. Biography DBC 5290 – Step Out On Nothing : How Faith and Family Helped Me Conquer Life's Challenges, by Byron Pitts, narrated by Sabrina Dames The author chronicles his astonishing story of overcoming a childhood filled with obstacles to achieve enormous success in life. Throughout Byron Pitts' difficult youth in inner-city Baltimore, he suffered from a debilitating stutter. But Byron was keeping an even more embarrassing secret: He was also functionally illiterate. Pitts turned struggle into strength and overcame both of his impediments. After 15 years in local television, he landed a job as a correspondent for CBS News and went on to become an Emmy Award-winning journalist and a contributing correspondent for 60 Minutes. From a challenged youth to a successful reporting career, Pitts' triumphant and uplifting story will resonate with anyone who has felt like giving up in the face of seemingly insurmountable hardships.
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