Belva Davis is one of the first female African American television and radio journalists. She is the recipient of eight Emmy Awards as well as lifetime achievement awards from the International Women's Media Foundation, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the Northern California chapter of the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences. Her work has appeared on stations in Oakland and throughout the Bay Area including KPIX-TV, KRON-TV, KTVU, KNEW, KQED, KDIA, and KSAN, as well as nationally through PBS. Davis's website highlights her coverage of the:

"most explosive stories of the era, including the Berkeley student protests, the birth of the Black Panthers, the Peoples Temple cult that ended in the mass suicides at Jonestown, the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the onset of the AIDS epidemic -- and from Africa, the terrorist attacks that first put Osama bin Laden on the FBI's Most Wanted List." (http://www.belvadavis.com/about, last accessed 2015 April 29)

Davis served the BFHFI as a volunteer from 1975-1993 in a variety of official and vital roles in addition to serving unofficially as an advisor and consultant. Her known roles were as follows:

William Moore is a photojournalist. When Moore was hired as a television news cameraman for KTVU (Oakland, California) in 1968, he became the first African American news cameraman to work full-time for commercial television in California. His work includes coverage of the O.J. Simpson murder trial, the murders of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, and anti-war and civil rights demonstrations from the late 1960s through the 1970s. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Ohlone College in Fremont.

Belva Davis and William Moore are both active philanthropists.