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Las Vegas' first Black news anchor reflects on groundbreaking career
Nearly two decades after the first color televisions hit American stores, Roosevelt Toston was breaking the color barrier in Las Vegas television news. Toston, who became the first African ...
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Knoxville remembers Edye Ellis, pioneer of East Tennessee media and first Black anchor at WBIR
She joined WBIR as the station's first African American anchor in 1982 to cover the ... according to Knox News archives. "I came during the World's Fair when Knoxville was welcoming a lot of ...
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Michael Che Wonders if He’s the Next Black Anchor to Be Fired After Joy Reid and Lester Holt Exits: ‘Well NBC, Only One More to Go’
During this weekend’s “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update, co-anchor Michael Che pointed out an uncomfortable truth: NBCUniversal is losing two prominent Black news anchors at the same time.
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Lester Holt stepping down as 'Nightly News' anchor
Holt has been with NBC News since 2000 ... He is the first African-American solo anchor of a weekday network nightly newscast.Holt's final air date has not yet been set. CNN contributed to ...
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Edye Ellis, WBIR's first Black anchor, has died: 'Heaven will be a better place'
In that time, our airwaves have welcomed many different anchors, but few have left behind an impact like Edye, who was our first African-American anchor. Edye grew up in Chicago and had a ...