Edye Ellis, WBIR's first Black anchor, has died: 'Heaven will be a better place'
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Edye Ellis, one of WBIR's most beloved anchors from the 1980s and 1990s, has died. She was 81. Edye's family confirmed she died Monday morning. Her cousin, Charles Collins, said ...
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Glamorous black TV anchor says racist bosses treated her like plantation slave
An Emmy-winning black TV anchor was treated like a plantation slave by her racist bosses, a bombshell lawsuit alleges. Ojinika Obiekwe, 46, had been employed at New York based network PIX11 ...
Knoxville remembers Edye Ellis, pioneer of East Tennessee media and first Black anchor at WBIR
Ellis joined WBIR Channel 10 in 1982, where she first covered the World's Fair in a program called "Welcome World." She stayed on as an anchor.