Clayborn Benson received the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Awardee from the UWM Alumni Association. The award was presented during the Alumni Awards Evening on February 21, 2025, at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clayborn is an award-winning broadcast journalist, historian and community leader. After 39 years with Milwaukee\u2019s WTMJ-TV as a photographer, editor and producer, he retired in 2007 to focus on his second career as founder and director of the Wisconsin Black Historical Society\/Museum. Clayborn produced documentary series, including \u201cBlack Communities,\u201d during his TV career and continues to tell the story of the Black legacy in Wisconsin as one of the state\u2019s most influential voices. He serves on the board of the Milwaukee County Historical Society and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin\u2019s Historical Records Advisory Board. He also serves on the City of Milwaukee Street and Building Renaming Committee. He is an emeritus member of UWM\u2019s Alumni Association board and a past president of the Association of African American Alumni. Clayborn\u2019s many awards include the Living Legacy Award from the city of Milwaukee, an Emmy-Silver Circle Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences regional chapter, the Hall of Fame Award from the Milwaukee Press Club and the Key to the City Award from former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1653,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-1746","class_notes","type-class_notes","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n