2015
December
Our holiday party at the Newseum! <http://on.fb.me/1RAZuUD>. With journalist authors Jesse Holland of the Associated Press (“The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House”) and syndicated Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. (“Grant Park” novel)
November
Kevin Merida, new leader of ESPN website “The Undefeated,” and Ambassador Mohamed Beisat of Western Sahara < http://bit.ly/2Ikwxik >
October
Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of the Washington Informer and new chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. < https://bit.ly/2WVkiSY > The roundtable changed topics quickly in response to news the previous day of the resignation of George E. Curry, editor-in-chief of the news service of the trade association for black community newspapers, and one of his staff members. The National Newspaper Publishers Association had cut their salaries in half. We also heard from DeShuna Spencer, a social entrepreneur, journalist and founder/CEO of kweliTV, an internet video streaming network for the black consumer.
September
Kenneth Walker, U.S. black journalist now in South Africa, and Ron Nixon of the New York Times Washington bureau, who has just written “Selling Apartheid: South Africa’s Global Propaganda War” a book about South Africa.” < http://bit.ly/2KmGIS1 >
August
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, veteran journalist and civil rights pioneer. < http://bit.ly/2FNNDAb >.
July
Washington Post team reporting on shootings by police. Reporters Keith Alexander, Wesley Lowery and Kimberly Kindy, and editors Lori Montgomery and David Fallis. < http://bit.ly/1NkkOhn >.
June
Michael Oreskes, NPR’s senior vice president of news and editorial director; Tasneem Raja, senior digital editor for NPR’s “Code Switch” project on race and culture; Keith Woods, vice president for diversity in news and operations; and Isabel Lara, media relations director. Also: Larry Kaggwa, retiring this month after 34 years teaching at Howard University. < http://bit.ly/2HZVpZm >
May
Vernon Jordan, board member of the Lazard Ltd. holding company, senior managing director of Lazard Frères & Company, senior counsel at Akin Gump, former civil rights leader and presidential confidant < http://bit.ly/2rntAUI >
(second roundtable)
Discussion of Baltimore events with WTOP (all-news radio) staff and reporters who covered the unrest. With General Manager Joel Oxley, reporters including Mike Murillo; Carla Wills, executive producer of news and public affairs at WEAA-FM; Michael Fletcher, an economics reporter at the Washington Post who wrote a front-page essay for the Post on living in Baltimore for more than 30 years. < http://on.fb.me/1RycQlR >,
April
Eric Deggans, NPR television critic < http://on.fb.me/1JWt9pS >
March
Howard Fuller, educator and activist; documentary filmmaker and SNCC veteran Judy Richardson and education official John King Jr. (later secretary of education) < http://on.fb.me/1ZKtfIz >
February
J.J. Yore, general manager, and journalists at WAMU, the NPR News affiliate in Washington: Armando Trull, Tamika Smith, Kojo Nnamdi, Kavitha Cardoza, Meymo Lyons, Elliott Francis, Jonathan Wilson. < http://on.fb.me/1S2bxtY >
January
DeWayne Wickham and Jackie Jones of Morgan State University’s School of Global Journalism & Communications; April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks and author of “The Presidency in Black and White”
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The first roundtable took place in May 1999 with Alice Bonner, Betty Anne Williams, Bobbi Bowman, Richard Prince and Bill Alexander. The purpose was to commemorate Alice’s return to Washington after obtaining a Ph.D at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Paul Delaney, Jessica Lee and Walt Swanston-NuevaEspana were also among the early founders.
When Alice left again in 2000, this time to teach at the University of Southern California, she asked that we keep the gatherings going while she was gone, and we have. Some of the faces at the dinner gatherings have changed, but the enthusiasm for the fellowship has only grown.
More:
2020: https://www.journal-isms.com/2020/01/journal-isms-roundtable-2020/
2019: https://www.journal-isms.com/2019/04/journal-isms-roundtable-2019/
2018: https://www.journal-isms.com/2018/05/journal-isms-roundtable-2018/
2017: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15468&preview=true
2016: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15471&preview=true
2014: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15478&preview=true
2013 and earlier : https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15499&preview=true
