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 ...

Edye Ellis was WBIR's first African American anchor, and KAT honored her service to the community by sharing a photo of her. She began her career at WBIR in 1982 and worked on programming for the ...

Edye was the station’s first African-American anchor. She started working there in 1982 and was later named evening co-anchor. Former WBIR anchor Beth Haynes remembered Ellis in an Instagram post.

Jocelyn is Atlanta’s first African American news anchor who did so much for our station and our community throughout her 45 years at WSB-TV.

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.

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 ...

Johnson was the first African American reporter and anchor at KVOA. She started with her hometown TV station in 1970. From Tucson, she would spend years as a main anchor for a television station ...

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.