This article reports on the debut of the television show Street Life, a news program produced and anchored by African Americans. On July 9, 1991, nine in the evening, the show will be aired on Chicago's public television station. Public Broadcasting System stations around the U.S. will pick up Street Life via satellite. Delmarie Cobb, quit her job as a host on WVON, Chicago's talk-radio station to find DELECO Communications and make Street Life. For the last two years she has been working constantly, trying to get the television show. The idea behind the show is to counterbalance skewed White programming, and to promote television images of African Americans other than criminals, athletes, and entertainers. Cobb herself is no outsider in the media world. She began her career as a television anchorwoman in Los Angeles, and has worked in print and broadcast journalism since 1977, including a stint as Jesse Jackson's national press secretary during his 1988 Presidential campaign. There is nothing particularly radical about Street Life. What makes it different from other news magazines is its African American cast and its even-handed treatment of people of all races. If Street Life is successful, Cobb plans to help members of her crew with several projects of their own, including a movie about the Nation of Islam and a mini-series.