2017
December
Holiday party at the Newseum!
Sharon Farmer’s phenomenal photos are at < http://bit.ly/2itTiBS > and Janice Temple’s videos at < http://bit.ly/2zfravl >. Guest speaker was George Derek Musgrove, co-author of “Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital.” Sharon Farmer was White House photographer under Bill Clinton.
November
Sharon Farmer delivered masterful photos of our Nov. 12 brunch at the David Driskell Center at the University of Maryland. Taken with available light, the photographs have a colorful backdrop in Driskell’s art collection. In addition to Professor Driskell, our guests were journalist-authors Angela Dodson and Michael Days, and we were introduced to Sharon Toomer, new executive director of the National Association of Black Journalists. The photos and a narrative are at < http://bit.ly/2zRoIw9 >. Video clip: < http://bit.ly/2zXW3Uc >
October
The topic was the language journalists should use in the era of Donald Trump, in which ESPN host Jemele Hill was rebuked for her Sept. 11 use of the term “white supremacy” in describing Trump but others applauded her for it, and where the administration’s untruths have been called outright lies in some media but not others.
Panelists were Kevin B. Blackistone of ESPN, the University of Maryland and the Washington Post; Kris Marsh, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland and Madhulika Sikka, newly named public editor at PBS. Narrative of the discussion: < http://bit.ly/2hRj7Pi > Video: < http://bit.ly/2FQtr0p >
September
Paul Butler, the Georgetown University law professor who has published “Chokehold: Policing Black Men,” and best-selling author and award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi’s “Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in
America” won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Narrative and photos: < http://bit.ly/2xEknMp > YouTube , Part 1:< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8WBxDEi-ls > Part 2:< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQUAv8w3GUE&feature=youtu.be > Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8odWX84gxl0&feature=youtu.be
August
Gary Knell, former CEO of Sesame Workshop and NPR, now president and CEO of National Geographic; Susan Goldberg, editorial director of National Geographic Partners and editor in chief of the magazine. Narrative of the conversation: < http://bit.ly/2uwNRFW > Periscope stream: < http://bit.ly/2ugEVJA >
July
Leon W. Russell, NAACP chairman, and Derrick Johnson, vice chairman; and Kevin Lewis, spokesperson for former president Barack Obama. http://bit.ly/2tWAgcv . Within days of this roundtable, Johnson was named the NAACP’s president and CEO.
June
Reporter Patrice Gaines, freed inmate Chris Turner and lawyer Shawn Armbrust on the Catherine Fuller case, in which the wrong people might have been sent to prison. http://bit.ly/2s0pcM0
May
Hugh Price, former CEO of the National Urban League and former New York Times editorial writer. < http://bit.ly/2rze9HC > , author of a new memoir, “This African American Life.”
April
Members of the Roundtable discuss an idea for an oral history archive of its members, who embody so much of the history of black journalists over the past few decades. Haitian American artist Lola Poissant used the group photograph from this meeting to make an oil on canvas painting, unveiled in July 2020. Photos by George Dalton Tolbert IV. < https://bit.ly/3j6YZnr >
March
Jeff Mason of Reuters, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, and Margaret Talev of Bloomberg, vice president and incoming president. < http://bit.ly/2orjzpx >
February
Our Saturday event at the Newseum with Barbara Reynolds, author of Coretta Scott King’s memoir, which the Roundtable co-sponsored with the Newseum. < http://bit.ly/2jTjd9w > .
January
Yamiche Alcindor of the New York Times and Candace Smith of ABC News discussed race and the recent presidential campaign. They are on the Richard Prince Facebook page along with his narrative of the discussion <http://bit.ly/2jmeUOQ >. Janice Temple recorded the whole dinner on Periscope, which you can view at your leisure at https://www.periscope.tv/
< https://www.periscope.tv/
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/
2016: https://www.journal-isms.com/?p=15471&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
