View Post NBC Affiliates | ShopTalk Alabama TV Trailblazer Norman Lumpkin Dies By Kevin Eck on May. 7, 2014 - 5:48 PM Norman Lumpkin, the first African-American TV reporter in Montgomery, AL, has died. According to WSFA, one of Lumpkin’s first assignments when he started at the NBC affiliate in 1969 was to cover then Governor George Wallace ...