Stanley Robertson was the first black president for NBC and any major network in the country. Robertson, who was also a former associate editor for Ebony magazine, passed away Nov. 16th in his Bel-Air, California home. He was called Hollywood’s only black production executive by the L.A. Times in the 1980s.
Robertson was born in Los Angeles in November 1925. He was born partially blind. He studied at the California School for the Blind before taking up journalism at L.A. City College. By the time he was 20 years old, Robertson had undergone 14 eye surgeries and was never cleared to drive. Despite his handicap, Robertson earned a degree from USC and worked as managing editor for the black-owned Los Angeles Sentinel. Hoping to learn telecommunications, he worked as a page for NBC.
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