Editing Max Robinson (section)

==Personal life==
===Marriages=== 
Robinson was married three times. Two ended in divorce, one in annulment.{{which|date=October 2024}} His first marriage was to Eleanor Booker from 1963 to 1968 and they had three children: Mark, Maureen, and Michael. His second marriage was to [[Hazel O'Leary]] from 1974 to 1975. Robinson's final marriage was to Beverly Hamilton from 1977 to 1986, with whom he had another son, Malik. Robinson was the older brother of [[Randall Robinson]].{{cn|date=October 2024}}

===Health and death===
Robinson was found to have [[AIDS]] while he was hospitalized for [[pneumonia]] in [[Blue Island, Illinois]],<ref name=IL/> but he kept it a secret, refusing to discuss it, despite widespread rumors about why his health was deteriorating.<ref name=Hall /> In the fall of 1988, Robinson was in Washington to deliver a speech at [[Howard University]]'s School of Communications when he became increasingly ill. Robinson checked himself into Howard University Hospital where he died of complications due to AIDS on December 20, 1988.<ref name=LA/><ref>{{cite news | first=Betty|last=Cuniberti | title=Max Robinson's Silent Struggle With AIDS | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-12-22-vw-889-story.html | newspaper=LA Times | date=December 22, 1988 | access-date=November 21, 2018}}</ref> He had asked his family to reveal that he had AIDS so that, according to the new reports, "Others in the black community would be alerted to the dangers and the need for treatment and education."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rosenzweig |first1=Leah |title=Cause of Death: Uncovering the hidden history of AIDS on the New York Times obituary page |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/aids-new-york-times-obituary-history.html |access-date=1 December 2018 |publisher=Slate.com |date=30 November 2018}}</ref> He was buried at [[Lincoln Memorial Cemetery (Suitland, Maryland)|Lincoln Memorial Cemetery]] in [[Suitland, Maryland]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2007/08/01/into-the-sunset-arrangements-and-options-for-the-afterlife/ |title=Into the Sunset: Arrangements and Options for the Afterlife |last=Van Dyne |first=Larry |work=[[Washingtonian (magazine)|Washingtonian]] |date=2007-08-01}}</ref>