Amyre Makupson

Amyre Ann Porter Makupson is a former news anchor and director of public affairs at WKBD in Detroit. Makupson held positions at WSM-TV in Nashville and WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., before moving back to Detroit in 1975 to work as director of public relations for Head Start, the Michigan Health Maintenance Organization. That same year, Makupson was hired by WGPR-TV, the nation’s first African-American owned television station, to anchor Big City News and the Detroit focused talk show Porterhouse.