Viewing page 245 of 356

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[4 images]]
[[caption]] Gil Noble honored by Harlem Commonwealth. [[/caption]]

[[image]]
[[caption]] Mr. and Mrs. Gil Noble [[/caption]]

[[image]]
[[caption]] Gil Noble honored by Friends of "Like It Is," Black Studies Dept., C.C.N.Y. and student Senates of City College [[/caption]]

Other distinguished LIKE IT IS documentaries include "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," which won a 1977 NATPE Award in the Bicentennial Program Category, and "Paul Robeson: The Tallest Tree in Our Forest." Among the awards garnered by the latter, which was also produced, written and reported by Noble, are the 1976 Second Annual New York Black Film Festival Award for "best documentary" and, for Noble, the Black Citizens for Fair Media Award in June, 1976. Noble was cited by the organization for "Paul Robeson" and for his overall production of LIKE IT IS.

In Oct., 1971, the first televised program devoted exclusively to sickle cell anemia was hosted by Gil Noble on LIKE IT IS. The production received a special award from the Sickle Cell Anemia Foundation. Another LIKE IT IS special, "Attica: The Unanswered Questions," co-hosted by Noble and Geraldo Rivera, won a Tonge Schaeffer Award.

The recipient of two Honorary Doctorates, one from Malcolm X University in Chicago (1973) and another from Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J. (1977). Noble is a former artist in residence at Seton Hall. As the teacher of two courses, broadcast news and mass communications, he was the first black journalist to become involved in the University's Communications Department.

Noble was honored by Seton Hall's Black Studies Center in Oct., 1977, at a special awards presentation for his service to the maturation and development of the Black Studies Center, its faculty and the many students he taught and reached.

Born and raised in Harlem, Noble is a lifelong lover of music. He taught himself to play piano and went on to perform professionally. A graduate of DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, Noble worked by day in the New York Public Library and attended City College at night. Then, after spending two years in the Army Medical Corps, Noble returned to New York where he worked occasionally as a model and continued to study music.

His broadcast career began in 1962, when he joined New York's WLIB Radio as a part-time announcer. During this time, he also had a professional music combo. The Gil Noble Trio, which played at some of New York's most renowned nightclubs.

Then, in 1967, Gil joined WABC-TV as an EYEWITNESS NEWS correspondent and co-host of LIKE IT IS. He was named managing editor and then producer of LIKE IT IS in 1975.

243