(l-r) RosettaMillerPerry (TheTennesseeTribune), Co-Chair NNPA Foundation Merit Awards and NNPA Treasurer, Ambassador Dr. Bobby Jones, NNPA Life Time Achievement honoree, Kenya Vaughn, representing Dr. Donald Suggs, publisher, the St. Louis American who received the “2016 PublisheroftheYear“ as well as the 2016 Russwurm/Senstacke General Excellence Award, (5th consecutive year, making it the best Black newspaper in America), Jackie Hampton (Mississippi Link), Chair, 2016 Merit Awards and Executive Officer of the NNPA Foundation Board , Al McFarlane (Insight News) NNPA Foundation Chair, at the 2016 NNPA Annual Convention in Houston, Texas last week. Photo by: Freddie Allen/NNPA