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title: 'Video: Journalist Byron Pitts on faith, family, and overcoming reading challenges'
description: Hear Byron Pitts’ inspiring story about going from a poor child in Baltimore who couldn’t read to a successful journalist.
slug: video-journalist-byron-pitts-on-faith-family-and-overcoming-reading-challenges
author: The Understood Team
published: '2019-08-05T15:52:13.762Z'
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source_url: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/video-journalist-byron-pitts-on-faith-family-and-overcoming-reading-challenges
lang: en
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# Video: Journalist Byron Pitts on faith, family, and overcoming reading challenges

When Byron Pitts was 12 years old, he couldn’t read. He had a single mother with a 10th-grade education. The kids at school bullied him and called him stupid. The doctors told his mother he had an intellectual disability. Pitts is now a thriving journalist. 

Hear his story about [reading struggles](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/child-trouble-reading) and [bullying](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/the-bullying-problem-what-you-need-to-know) in childhood, and how his mother and his faith inspired him.

[![Video](https://cdn-images.understood.org/p0qf7j048i0q/FB3ED3FE76B2414F8D64934F659690A3/5e9470c6851216f1b35e4f210db61837/051018_Video_Journalist_Byron_Pitts_on_Finding_Success_With_Reading_Issues.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/embed/Kj7uH_Ur76s)

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