Media Career
In 1962, Langhart began her career in Chicago as a model, where she worked for Marshall Field's and the Ebony Fashion Fair, and she was named Miss Chicagoland. At the age of 28, she became the first black "weathergirl" for WBBM-TV. She became a noted black television journalist at a variety of outlets, most notably Boston's WCVB-TV, where she cohosted morning program Good Day! from 1973-78. During her career she interviewed numerous personalities including Rosa Parks and David Duke. She became friends with Muhammad Ali and F. Lee Bailey, and considered Martin Luther King a personal mentor.
Langhart worked on a television show at WOR-TV in New York City called 9 Broadcast Plaza alongside Richard Bey. She was fired from Entertainment Tonight in 1990 after she asked Arnold Schwarzenegger, apparently violating an agreement he had with producers, about his father Gustav Schwarzenegger's Nazi background. "I was terminated by The Terminator", she remarked. Later, she was a commentator on Black Entertainment Television. She has also worked for the Boston Globe and WCVB-TV in Boston., and she has been a spokeswoman for U.S. News and World Report and Avon Cosmetics.
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