Awards
- 4 Emmy Awards (Likely for his play-by-play on the NFL Network)
- Frederick D. Patterson Award from the United Negro College Fund
- Martin Luther King Award from the Congress of Racial Equality
- Three NAACP Image Awards
- Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Foreign Affairs work from the Overseas Press Club, September 1984
- Edward Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting
- Peabody Award for his reporting in Vietnam
- International Journalism Award from TransAfrica
- Africa's Future Award from the U.S. Committee for UNICEF
- Leadership Award from the African-American Institute
- Best Morning TV News Interviewer, the Washington Journalism Review, 1986
- National Association of Black Journalists, Journalist of the Year Award, 1993
- Trumpet Award of the Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for outstanding broadcast journalism for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO), December 2005
- Clinton Award
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