Remembering One of the First Black Reporters at the New York Times
Late last month, just before the July 4 holiday, Layhmond Robinson Jr. passed away in Queens. He was 88.
A perfectly logical place to begin celebrating this journalist’s legacy is the obituary in the newspaper where he blazed a trail. From Daniel E. Slotnik’s article:
“There were, here and there, some black journalists with the white media,” Thomas A. Johnson, the first black reporter at Newsday and one of the first black foreign correspondents for the New York Times, wrote in an essay that appears on the website of the Robert C.
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