Editing Max Robinson (section)

===Career===
Robinson began his television career in 1959, when he was hired for a news job at [[WGNT|WTOV-TV]] in [[Portsmouth, Virginia|Portsmouth]], [[Virginia]].<ref name=BLK/> Robinson had to read the news while hidden behind a slide of the station's logo. One night, Robinson had the slide removed; he was fired the next day.<ref>Matusow, Barbara, ''The Evening Stars / The Making of the Network News Anchor'', Houghton Mifflin Co., 1983, p. 242.</ref>
He later went to [[WRC-TV]] in Washington, DC, and stayed for three years, winning six journalism awards for coverage of civil-rights events such as the riots that followed the 1968 assassination of Dr. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] It was during this time that Robinson won two regional [[Emmy Awards|Emmys]] for a documentary he made on black life in [[Anacostia]] entitled ''The Other Washington''. In 1969, Robinson joined the ''[[Eyewitness News]]'' team at WTOP-TV (now [[WUSA-TV]]) in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=NT/> Robinson was teamed with anchor [[Gordon Peterson]], becoming the first African-American anchor on a local television news program, and the newscast succeeded. During that time, he was so well-liked by viewers that when [[Hanafi]] Muslims [[1977 Washington, D.C., attack and hostage taking|took hostages]] at the B'nai B'rith building in Washington they would speak only with Robinson.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}