View of American broadcast journalist Max Robinson (1939 - 1988) at a desk in the newsroom at ABC Studios, Chicago, Illinois, June 1, 1979. At the time, he was the co-anchor of ABC World News ...

He then became the first African American to co-anchor a nightly network newscast. Following his retirement from journalism in 1985, Robinson died at 49 in 1988. (Image credit: ABC News) ...

Toston, who became the first African American news anchor in the city, began his career at Channel 3 after responding to a newspaper ad for a six-month correspondent course at the Career Academy ...

I enjoyed what I did, and I thought I was good at what I did," said Dana Waddell, the first African American anchor at WAND. It was 1982 when WAND made the decision to move Dana Waddell to a role ...

Edye Ellis, a beloved Knoxville television personality and WBIR's first African American anchor, died March 3.She was 81. Ellis joined WBIR Channel 10 in 1982, where she first covered the World's ...

Latest News Stories. ... who was our first African-American anchor. Edye grew up in Chicago and had a successful career in Cincinnati, but fate would bring her to Knoxville in the early 1980s.

Lester Holt, the trusted face of “NBC Nightly News” for the past decade, ... he was the first African-American solo anchor of a weekday network nightly newscast.

After 10 years behind the anchor desk at "NBC Nightly News," Lester Holt is getting ready to pass the torch. ... He is the first African-American solo anchor of a weekday network nightly newscast.

After 10 years behind the anchor desk at "NBC Nightly News," Lester Holt is getting ready to pass the torch. ... He is the first African-American solo anchor of a weekday network nightly newscast.