2016
December
Sharon Farmer’s priceless photos of the holiday party < http://bit.ly/2gulbaH >, along with a narrative of the event and photos taken by others. Janice Temple’s Periscope feed of the talks by the two guest authors, Wesley Lowery and Malcolm Nance, is at <https://www.periscope.tv/w/1DXGyodDReWxM>. Nance distributed copies of his newly published “The Plot to Hack America,” one of the first soundings of alarm over Russian hacking.
November
In light of the unexpected election of Donald Trump as president, scheduled guests were Hilary O. Shelton, director, NAACP Washington Bureau / senior vice president for advocacy and policy <http://bit.ly/2gpXcOk>, and Clarissa Martínez-de-Castro, deputy vice president, Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation, National Council of La Raza <http://bit.ly/2fnK0o4>. Joining as a late addition was Telly Lovelace, national director of African-American Initiatives and Media for the Republican National Committee. <http://huff.to/2eNn8Ss> Dinner: < http://bit.ly/2eNkWL4 >
October
Mike Ottey, formerly assistant editor at the Miami Herald, decided to travel around the world after being laid off in 2009. He filed “Mike Tends to Travel” dispatches online as he took in these foreign locales. See: <https://miketendstotravel.com/>. Now he’s working at China Daily as world editor. And: Leon Harris, who is leaving an anchor spot at WJLA-TV. Dinner: <http://bit.ly/2fv6xUq>.
September
We congratulated Irving Washington, who has been named executive director of the Online News Association, effective Jan. 1, a promotion from deputy director. We also heard an update from Paul Holston, editor in chief of the Hilltop at Howard University, which has produced so many black journalists over the years. Welcomed to town Russ Torres, who joined the USA Today Network as vice president of digital video content and strategy. The roundtable took place on his second day in the job. <http://bit.ly/2enzCjb>
August
Bill Rhoden, just retired as New York Times sports columnist, Alicia Montgomery of NPR “Code Switch,” newly named editorial director of WAMU-FM, NPR station in D.C. <http://bit.ly/2ceGtL0>. (Our first Facebook Live)
July
Mizell Stewart, incoming president of the American Society of News Editors http://bit.ly/2a2eBVk
June
April Ryan and Darlene Superville, White House reporters, on President Obama’s final months <http://bit.ly/297Jo2E>
May
Herb Frazier, longtime reporter and columnist for the Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., who has written “We Are Charleston,” to be published in June, about the context of the Mother Bethel AME church shootings a year ago. <http://bit.ly/1TzP5M8>
April
Malcolm Nance, counterterrorism expert and author of “Defeating Isis,” a new book on the terrorist group, and Lisa Shepard, former NPR ombudsman who just spent two years in Afghanistan. <http://bit.ly/23N0MUs>
March
DeRay Mckesson, Black Lives Matter activist running for mayor of Baltimore, and Deen Freelon of American University, author of a study on Black Lives Matter’s use of social media. http://bit.ly/1qtch1q
February
Kinshasha Holman Conwill, deputy director of the Smithsonian’s $540 million National Museum of African American History and Culture, and James Blue, “PBS NewsHour’s” senior content and special projects producer, who produced the Feb. 11 PBS Democratic presidential debate in Wisconsin. http://on.fb.me/1ScyaNb
January
C.R. Gibbs, author, lecturer and historian of the African diaspora, and Sabiyha Prince (no relation), author of “African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.: Race, Class and Social Justice in the Nation’s Capital” < http://on.fb.me/1TxM8tb >
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
2015: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15492&preview=true
2014: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15478&preview=true
2013 and earlier: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15499&preview=true