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Hijab Wearing TV Reporter
“I love the way that you can craft a story with TV news,” explains Tahera Rahman, who started her job as a reporter at WHBF in February. “You get to do it in the words of the people themselves.”
Those footsteps ultimately brought her to the WHBF-TV newsroom where Rahman now stands alone as the first full-time broadcast television news reporter in the United States to wear the traditional Muslim head scarf, also known as a hijab.
“I always knew that I had never seen anyone who looks like me on camera before… at least on American television,” she says. “I have a lot of family members who do not wear a head scarf, but my mom wears one and a couple of my aunts also do. We are taught that in Islam, it is a choice.”
It is a choice Rahman embraces. She says she first wore the hijab when she was 12.
“I think I’ve made more of a conscious effort as I’ve grown older to connect more to my heritage,” she says, though she admits it has sometimes been a struggle. Full Story
Hijab Wearing TV Reporter Tahera Rahman will always remember Feb. 8, 2018.
That’s the day she gave her first on-air broadcast as a journalist for WHBF, a television station covering the Quad Cities region in Illinois and Iowa.
It’s also the day she made history, becoming the first full-time broadcast TV reporter in America to wear a hijab on the air.
However, some people in her life — even some of her mentors — told her it was an unlikely dream. America wasn’t ready to see a hijab-wearing news anchor, they said.
Rahman was determined to prove them wrong. When an opening came up for an on-air reporting job at WHBF, she leapt at the chance to apply. Full Story
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