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In advance of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, Malveaux anchored a 90-minute documentary on then-Senator Barack Obama as part of a two-part series on the 2008 general election presidential candidates. In August 2007, Malveaux was the moderator of the 31st annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists and has served on various panels at previous conventions of the NABJ, of which she is a member. She covered national stories such as Bill Clinton's impeachment, Elián González, the Kosovo War, the 2000 Presidential Election, the 9/11 attacks, and the 2001 war in Afghanistan. She reported for three years first in Washington, including as a Pentagon correspondent, then in Chicago. In 1999, Meet the Press host Tim Russert recruited Malveaux to join NBC News. She then moved to Washington, D.C., and worked for NBC affiliate WRC-TV from 1996–1999 as a self-described "rock-and-roll" reporter reporting local and crime news. Malveaux's first television job was with New England Cable News as a general assignment reporter in Boston, from 1992 to 1996. Malveaux is an honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She graduated with a master's degree in broadcasting from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1991. cum laude in sociology, writing a senior thesis based on a semester she spent at Howard University. Malveaux was graduated from Centennial High School in Ellicott City, Maryland, in 1984, then Harvard College with an A.B.
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In an episode of "Finding Your Roots", it was revealed to her that her French roots trace back to a 17th-century French-Canadian fur trader from Quebec, that a seven-greats-grandmother on her father's side (the fur trader's wife) was a Native American of the Kaskaskia tribe, and that one of her ancestors in Louisiana was a free black man who himself owned slaves. Her mother, the former Myrna Maria Ruiz, is a retired schoolteacher. Her father, Floyd Joseph Malveaux, was a doctor who became the dean of the College of Medicine at Howard University he was the executive director of the Merck Childhood Asthma Network and a founder of Howard University's National Human Genome Center. Malveaux has stated that different members of her family identify as white, biracial, and/or black, and that she considers herself black. Malveaux was born in Lansing, Michigan, into a New Orleans-based family, with parents both of Louisiana Creole origin: their roots are of French, Spanish, and African descent.