Kathleen Bradley: First African-American model on television's most popular game show
By Jason C. Klose Best known to television audiences as a model on the CBS daytime game show The Price Is Right from 1990-2000, Kathleen Bradley has an impressive resume in the entertainment industry that includes not only modeling, but acting on television and film and music. But this beautiful, groundbreaking woman didn't achieve her success without plenty of hard work, determination, and remembering where she came from. Born January 10, 1951 in Girard, Ohio, just two miles east of Youngstown, Bradley was the only girl to four brothers. For Bradley it was a wonderful upbringing - living in a rural area in a nice, small community and not in a big city. "Family life was great, and everybody was going to each other's homes every now and then," Bradley recalls. "You didn’t have to lock the doors, and you could go home before the streetlights came on." Bradley was brought up in a community that at the time was still segregated. The neighborhood was made up of...