Florence “Flo” Anthony, the pioneering celebrity journalist who broke barriers at the New York Post’s Page Six and became a defining voice in African American entertainment journalism, has died. A woman of firstsAnthony was known to walk into newsrooms and departments whose doors had once been barricaded against people of color—and particularly against African American women. She also made history as the first African American woman to write a column for a supermarket tabloid, penning “Eye on the Stars” for the National Examiner. For an African American woman rising through the overwhelmingly white, male, and notoriously insular world of tabloid journalism, these achievements were not merely promotions, but breaches in a wall. Her television work placed an authoritative African American woman at the center of national conversations about celebrity, scandal, and popular culture at a time when such visibility remained far too rare.