Section 6. Ed Bradley Way.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Mr. Ed Bradley was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Saint Thomas More Catholic Boys High School in West Philadelphia in 1959.
(2) Mr. Bradley graduated from Cheyney State College, now Cheyney University, in 1964 with a degree in education and his first job was teaching sixth grade at William B. Mann Elementary School in Philadelphia.
(3) Mr. Bradley started reporting the news at WDAS-FM and, in 1971, this led him to a full-time job at WCBS in New York.
(4) In 1972, Mr. Bradley volunteered to be transferred to Saigon to cover the Vietnam War in Vietnam and Cambodia, where he was injured by a mortar round.
(5) In 1976, Mr. Bradley became the first African-American White House television correspondent for CBS News.
(6) In 1981, Mr. Bradley joined the television program 60 Minutes, where, over the course of his 26 years on the program, he did over 500 stories.
(7) Mr. Bradley also hosted the Peabody award-winning program "Jazz at Lincoln Center" on National Public Radio for more than ten years, until his death in 2006.
(b) Designation.--The portion of U.S. Route 1, City Avenue in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties from its intersection with Presidential Boulevard to its intersection with Monument Road is hereby designated as Ed Bradley Way.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the highway to traffic in both directions.