National Association of Black Journalists - Founders

Founders

On December 12, 1975, 44 men and women gathered at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. (now the Marriott Wardman Park) to form the NABJ. The following are their names and where they worked at the time:

  • Norma Adams-Wade, Dallas Morning News
  • Carole Bartel, CORE Magazine
  • Edward Blackwell, Milwaukee Journal
  • Reginald Bryant, Black Perspective on the News
  • Maureen Bunyan, WTOP-TV (Washington, D.C.)
  • Crispin Campbell, WNET-TV (New York)
  • Charlie Cobb, WHUR (Washington, D.C.)
  • Marilyn Darling, WHYY-TV (Wilmington, Delaware)
  • Leon Dash, Washington Post
  • Joe Davidson, Philadelphia Bulletin
  • Allison J. Davis, WBZ-TV (Boston)
  • Paul Delaney, The New York Times
  • William Dilday, WLBT-TV (Jackson, Mississippi)
  • Sandra Rosen Dillard, Denver Post
  • Joel Dreyfuss, Washington Post
  • Sam Ford, WCCO-TV (Minneapolis)
  • David Gibson, Mutual Black Network
  • Sandra Gilliam-Beale, WHIO-TV (Dayton, Ohio)
  • Bob Greenlee, New Haven Register
  • Martha Griffin, National Public Radio
  • Derwood Hall, WSOC-TV (Charlotte, North Carolina)
  • Bob Hayes, San Francisco Examiner
  • Toni Jones, Detroit Free Press
  • Mal Johnson, Cox Broadcasting
  • Vernon Jarrett, Chicago Tribune
  • Claude Lewis, Philadelphia Bulletin
  • H. Chuku Lee, Africa Journal Ltd.
  • Sandra Dawson Long, News Journal (Wilmington, Delaware)
  • Pluria Marshall, freelancer
  • Acel Moore, Philadelphia Inquirer
  • Luix Overbea, Christian Science Monitor
  • Les Payne, Newsday
  • Alex Poinsett, Ebony
  • Claudia Polley, NBC News
  • Richard Rambeau, Project Bait (Detroit)
  • W. Curtis Riddle, Louisville Courier-Journal
  • Max Robinson, WTOP-TV (Washington, D.C.)
  • Charlotte Roy, Detroit Free Press
  • Vince Sanders, National Black Network
  • Chuck Stone, Philadelphia Daily News
  • Jeannye Thornton, U.S. News & World Report
  • Francis Ward, Los Angeles Times
  • John C. White, Washington Star
  • DeWayne Wickham, Baltimore Sun
  • Paul Brock, Founding NABJ Executive Director

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