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Maxie Cleveland Robinson Jr. (May 1, 1939 – December 20, 1988) was an American broadcast journalist, most notably serving as co-anchor on ABC World News Tonight alongside Frank Reynolds and Peter Jennings from 1978 until 1983.
30 de abr. de 2024 · Max Robinson (born May 1, 1939, Richmond, Va., U.S.—died Dec. 20, 1988, Washington, D.C.) was an American television journalist and the first African American man to anchor a nightly network newscast. Robinson was also the first African American to anchor a local news program in Washington, D.C.
23 de dic. de 2010 · Learn about the life and career of Max Robinson, the first African American to co-anchor a national news program on ABC. He was also a civil rights journalist, a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists, and a victim of AIDS.
21 de dic. de 1988 · Max Robinson, the nation's controversial and troubled first black anchorman who was plagued in his final years by professional and personal demons, died Tuesday.
26 de may. de 1988 · CHICAGO -- It has been four years since Max Robinson coanchored the ABC evening. news with Peter Jennings and the late Frank Reynolds. "I still get. questions from black Americans who say, 'What...
19 de jun. de 2015 · Max Robinson, a Largely Forgotten Trailblazer for Black Anchors. Max Robinson, left, in 1978 with his ABC news team: Roone Arledge, who hired him, and his co-anchor colleagues, Frank Reynolds...
For WUSA9's 75th anniversary, we celebrate the trailblazing Channel 9 anchor who lived his life as he painted, in bold strokes, his way.
