You are here: Home News / To Be Equal Trailblazing CNN News Anchor Bernard Shaw Inspired A Generation Of Black Journalists. To Be Equal Trailblazing CNN News Anchor Bernard Shaw Inspired A Generation Of Black Journalists. When the brand-new 24-hour cable news network CNN launched in June of 1980, America saw a Black man in the prime-time anchor chair. He was only the second Black anchor of a network evening news program; Max Robinson had been named co-anchor of ABC News’s World News Tonight in 1978 just two years earlier. While Shaw’s award-winning career may have inspired an entire generation of young Black journalists, Shaw himself had no role models of color.

Source: CNN September 18, 2022 19:06 UTC