Trivia

He was the world's first black TV anchor newscaster (WBZ-TV Eyewitness News, Boston, Massachusetts, Group W, Westinghouse, 1965-1968).

He is the TV producer-director of the award-winning, Emmy-nominated TV musical documentary "A Duke Named Ellington" and the Los Angeles Emmy-award winner (1985) "K*I*D*S". He lives most of the year in Scandinavia.

He was founder and president of Meta/4 Productions, Inc., a California company he formed in 1975, through which he produced and/or directed more than 100 documentary films and television shorts for industry and the federal government.

President of Council For Positive Images, a non-profit organization he formed in 1979.

His father was of Argentinian and African-American descent, and his mother was a Dominican Republic native.

Carter graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan in 1946. Thereafter, he attended postsecondary courses at Hunter College, the University of California, Los Angeles, Boston University and Northeastern University, ultimately returning to the latter institution decades after dropping out to complete his Bachelor of Science degree in communications in 1983.

Survived by his wife, two children, Miguel Carter DeCoste, Melinda, a stepdaughter, Hiwot Minale, one granddaughter.