What is the Living Legends Awards?

Hunter is veteran anchor and television pioneer in St. Louis as well as an author and historian focusing on St. Louis’s Central West End neighborhood. He was born in St. Louis and graduated from Sumner High School and Stowe Teachers College. Hunter, a distinguished lecturer, philanthropist, radio talk show host, newspaper columnist, musician, and educator, was the first African American primetime news anchor in St. Louis. He worked at Channel 4 and Channel 5 for a combined 33 years.

Longtime KSDK anchor and mentor to on-air personalities, Jackson is from Quincy, Illinois. She started her career at 5 On Your Side in 1998.  After spending ten years at KSDK,  Jackson anchored in Sacramento, CA but moved back to St. Louis where she spent more than ten years anchoring the weekend morning edition of Today in St. Louis. In 2021, Kelly became the co-anchor at 5 p.m.; in 2023, she was named KSDK co-anchor with Mike Bush.

Reid is the St. Louis American city editor, a regular pundit on the PBS local program “Donnybrook,” and a former St. Louis Business Journal reporter. Alvin Reid was a lead sports columnist for the Globe-Democrat, one of the stops he’s made in his nearly 30 years as a journalist. His career has taken him from Danville, Ill, to Little Rock, Ark., to Lansing, Mich., to Washington, D.C., and back to his hometown of St. Louis.