Jayne Kennedy is an actress, sports broadcaster, television personality, writer, and producer. Her accolades for being a trailblazer are numerous, including the National Sports Media Association’s Roone Arledge Award for Innovation, Black Enterprise’s Women of Power Summit’s Legacy Award, and the NAACP Image Award for Best Actress for the film Body & Soul, which she also produced. Viacom/BET named her one of the Ten Black Female Firsts in TV Journalism Around the World, and in 2018 she was inducted to the prestigious Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C., in the Television and the Media Landscape exhibit, presented in the Oprah Winfrey Wing of the institution.

Perhaps best known for her ground-breaking work on the Emmy-Award winning CBS’s The NFL Today, Jayne Kennedy is a trailblazer in every sense of the word. From becoming the first Black woman to win Miss Ohio USA, to being the only woman to host the long-running syndicated television show, and pioneering the fitness industry with fitness programs, nobody has had a career trajectory quite like Jayne. And she has never gone on the record about her personal experiences and the joys and scars that resulted thereof — until now. Her candid and conversational storytelling will endear her once again to fans in Plain Jayne. Jayne has long been a beacon of Black and female excellence and has opened doors for female talent. Tracing her upbringing in Ohio, and her journey shattering ceilings in American contemporary culture, Plain Jayne is a breathtaking story of endurance, survival, and achievement.