Byron Pitts

==Early life==
Pitts was born October 21, 1960, to Clarice and William Pitts<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120463986 |title=Byron Pitts Found Faith To 'Step Out On Nothing'|work=NPR |date= November 16, 2009|access-date= May 24, 2010}}</ref> in [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]].<ref>{{cite news|title= Byron Pitts |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/09/broadcasts/main524933.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060914142715/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/09/broadcasts/main524933.shtml |archive-date=September 14, 2006 |work= CBS News |date=2002-10-09| access-date= 2011-06-02}}</ref>  He grew up in a working-class neighborhood, raised by a single mother.<ref name="TALENT">{{cite web|url=http://www.greatertalent.com/ByronPitts |title=Byron Pitts | website=Greater Talent Network Speakers Bureau|access-date= 2011-06-02}}</ref> In his memoir, Pitts discussed that he had a debilitating [[stutter]] as a child and was "[[Functional illiteracy|functionally illiterate]]" until about age 12.  He attended [[Archbishop Curley High School]], an all-boys [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] high school in Baltimore. He went on to [[Ohio Wesleyan University]], but spent summers in [[Apex, North Carolina]].<ref name="OBS1">Menconi, David {{cite news|url=http://www.newsobserver.com/2009/12/17/244052/how-byron-pitts-came-out-on-top.html |title=How Byron Pitts came out on top|work= News Observer|date= December 17, 2009 |access-date= May 24, 2010}}</ref>  He graduated in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and speech communication.