With a career spanning nearly four decades, Peabody Award-winning journalist, television newscaster, and author of the best-selling book, The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama, Gwen Ifill built a strong legacy of journalistic excellence. To commemorate that legacy, a Boston college announced that it will name a school for the late journalist. Simmons College will dedicate the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts and Humanities, to honor the late journalist who graduated from the private college with a communications degree in 1977.

The announcement came on Tuesday at the one year anniversary of Ifill's death from breast and endometrial cancer. A native of Jamaica, Queens neighborhood of New York City, the former New York Times and Washington Post reporter was well known for her cool moderation of the 2004 and 2008 vice-presidential debates. Her moderation of the 2008 vice-presidential debate between then Democratic Senator Joe Biden and Republican governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin became an iconic moment in pop culture that was parodied by Queen Latifah on Saturday Night Live

Salute to Simmons College for commemorating the career legacy of Gwen Ifill with this prestigious honor. 

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