Nunn impacted journalism just as he did NFL football
When Bill Nunn is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in August as a part of the Class of 2021, many will think about the lives he impacted in football. The names that will come to mind will be John Stallworth, Mel Blount, Donnie Shell, and numerous others who played at Historically Black Colleges and Universities that Nunn brought to light and opened the door for in the NFL.
But those aren’t the only ones he has impacted. There are others, those he touched on a daily basis during his time with the Pittsburgh Courier, those who wanted to follow in his groundbreaking footsteps. The names Ulish Carter and Eddie Jefferies, who worked at the Courier with Nunn because they wanted to learn from him, might not be as familiar to some, but Nunn’s impact on them was just as monumental as the players whose lives he touched.
Ulish Carter knew how to stay on Bill Nunn’s good side.
It was simple.
“I basically did what he told me to do,” said Carter.
It was 1973, and Carter, now 71 years old, had just moved to Pittsburgh to pursue his dream of working for the Pittsburgh Courier, where Bill Nunn was already a legend at the Black newspaper and Carter wanted to learn from the best. Carter had graduated from Southern Illinois University with a double major in
