Stella Foster

Stella Foster is an African-American journalist for the Chicago Sun-Times who was first an assistant for the newspaper entertainment columnist, Irv Kupcinet, before establishing her own columns with Sister 2 Sister magazine and later for her employer.

Personal Stella Foster was a journalist with the Chicago Sun-Times (pictured) before her retirement.Stella Foster is from Chicago, Illinois, and she grew up in the Englewood Community. Her parents Peter James and Mamie Lee Foster were storekeepers. Stella's sister is Jamie Foster Brown, publisher and owner of Sister 2 Sister magazine. She attended Calumet High School. Stella Foster's career started when her sister brought to her attention that Kupcinet, the Chicago Sun-Times columnist, was in need of a secretary. She began working for him on September 1, 1969 and was his assistant for decades. Kupcinet taught her the basics of good journalism, and she said his integrity and personality contributed to their getting "scoops" through a hot line where people could call in news. As Kupcinet aged, Foster collaborated with him and she later received a byline under the Kupcinet column. During her career, she also had a regular television segment on FOX News called "Stella Sez." The column for the Chicago Sun-Times ran two times a week and was later increased to five times a week. Her employer did not name a successor.

Notable works of journalism

Obama Kids Interviewed on CNN defending the Obama kids about letting them speak out for the first time.

In popular culture In the 1990s, Foster had contributed some editorials to the Chicago Sun-Times, such as her 1992 opinion piece "Killing By Blacks Must Stop," about urban black violence that was motivated by the shooting of her nephew, who survived the incident. The Chicago Latino Network's Platinum Communications Award Archibald Motley Excellence in Arts Award, from the Englewood Committee Mt. Sinai's Parenting Institute's African Village Award (which she shared with her family) Torch for Journalism from Sigma Gamma Rho sorority “Making A Difference Award” from Rainbow PUSH Coalition as a Woman of Distinction State of Illinois African American Media Award from the Secretary of State's Office African-American History Service Award from Sixth Grace Presbyterian Church Joint Civic Committee of Italian American's coveted Dante media award "Shero" Award for Career Achievement from NABFEME She has been saluted by the Midwest Radio and Music Association, hailed as a “Phenomenal Woman” by the Expo for Today's Black Woman, and named one of The “100 Woman Making a Difference” by Today's Chicago Woman Magazine. She received the Each One Teach One Literacy's Englewood Community Award for Excellence in Journalism, and has earned awards from the Chicago Black Public Relations Society and from the National Council of Negro Women