Long before former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer attempted to call out American Urban Radio Networks’ correspondent April Ryan for giving him what he thought was a disrespectful head shake while simply trying to do her job, Ethel Payne was agitating White House officials in the press room on a daily. Payne set the standard in the 1950s when she became one […]
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