Gumbel, Bryant Charles

Bradley, Edward Rudolph “Ed”

1941-2006

Reported roughly 500 stories across a 25-year run on 60 Minutes — more than any other correspondent over the same period — after becoming CBS News’ first African American White House correspondent and being wounded covering the Vietnam War

Roberts, Robin Renée

1960-present

Became the first Black woman to anchor ESPN’s flagship SportsCenter program in 1990, then, since 2005, has co-anchored ABC’s Good Morning America, leading it back to the No. 1 morning-show ranking and earning a 2012 Peabody Award for her on-air documentation of her own cancer treatment

Shaw, Bernard

1940-2022

Served as CNN’s first chief anchor from the network’s 1980 launch until his 2001 retirement, becoming, alongside correspondents Peter Arnett and John Holliman, one of the “Boys of Baghdad” whose live 1991 Gulf War broadcasts helped establish CNN as a credible major news outlet

Holt, Lester Don Jr.

1959-present

Became the first African American to solo anchor a major U.S. network’s weekday evening newscast when he took over NBC Nightly News in 2015, a post he held for a decade before moving to lead Dateline NBC full-time