Eric Christopher Webb, DDiv., CPLC
Director of Communications
/Editor of The Sphinx
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
ewebb@apa1906.net
Cell: 443-635-5911
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Mourns the Transition of Brother Charles Robinson, III, the Fraternity’s 19th Editor–of–The Sphinx to Omega Chapter
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. mourns the death yesterday of the late Brother Charles Robinson, III, the Fraternity’s 19th Editor of the Sphinx, an award-winning print, broadcast, and digital journalist, who was also recently honored with the National Association of Black Journalists Lifetime Achievement Award. He was 69.
The late Brother Robinson, a 1975 Theta Rho Chapter initiate of the Fraternity at the Virginia Commonwealth University and longtime member of Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter in Columbia, MD, was a devoted 50-year Brother. He served as Editor-of-The Sphinx, the nation’s second oldest African American publication in print from 1991-1993.
Within NABJ, Brother Robinson held numerous leadership roles on multiple levels, serving as president of the Baltimore Chapter of NABJ’s Association of Black Media Workers and had worked as a senior political reporter for Maryland Public Television, where his name is also included on Maryland Public Television’s Wall of Fame.
In 2023, he contributed a featured article, “The Right Time” on the election of Brother Governor Wes Moore for The Sphinx Magazine.
Brother Robinson resided in Baltimore County with his wife, Robbie, and has two children – including a son, who is a Brother of our beloved, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
The Fraternity offers its sincerest condolences to his family, chapter, friends, and all who admire him.
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The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African American men, was founded on December 4, 1906, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD. The Fraternity has long stood at the forefront of the African American community’s fight for civil rights through Alpha men such as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; late former Congressman Adam Clayton Powell; late former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall; legendary activist, actor and performer, Paul Robeson, former Ambassador Andrew Young; late former Senator Edward Brooke; scholar, Cornel West; Senator Raphael Warnock; Congressman Steven Horsford, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus; General CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; six other members of the U.S. Congress, numerous state, and local lawmakers across the United States, as well as President of Liberia, His Excellency Joseph Boakai, Sr. The fraternity, through its more than 720 college and alumni chapters and general-organization members, serves communities in the United States, and other parts of North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.