William Worthy, Jr., born in Boston in 1921 and educated in its public schools, served as an eminent and significant foreign correspondent and columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American from 1951 to 1980; as a special CBS News correspondent in China, Africa, and the Soviet Union between 1955-57; and as a Nieman Fellow in journalism at Harvard University during 1956-57. Worthy is still active as a free-lance journalist and lecturer.