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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 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 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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It was a typical Sunday evening of news, but history was in the making. As News4JAX Anchor and Reporter Jenese Harris approached the weather greenscreen for the 10 o’clock ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.