Can columnists write whatever they want? Do Black columnists feel pressured not to write “so much” about race? Are there topics more columnists should address? Do Black columnists have a different mandate than others?
Those questions and others will be on the table Monday as Black columnists discuss the environment in which their colleague, the late Askia Muhammad, < https://bit.ly/3rYEnUU > plied his craft.
Washington’s Pacifica station WPFW-FM, streamed at wpfwfm.org, plans a 24-hour tribute to Askia on Monday, March 28, his birthday.
This radio version of the Journal-isms Roundtable is to air from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time.
Scheduled for the discussion are:
Todd Steven Burroughs, public historian, media consultant and contractor, Black press historian
Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher, Washington Informer, which ran Askia’s column
https://www.washingtoninformer.com/author/denise-rolark-barnes/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/28/washington-informer-local-news-growing/
Naba’a Richard Muhammad, editor in chief, The Final Call, which also published Askia.
https://muckrack.com/richard-muhammad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skqKIzCfDhY
Monroe Anderson, “cyber columnist,” Chicago
https://www.linkedin.com/in/monroeanderson/
https://www.facebook.com/MonroeAnderson
https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/monroe-anderson-41
Jenice Armstrong, Metro columnist, Philadelphia Inquirer
https://www.inquirer.com/author/armstrong_jenice/?msclkid=279d3e50a9e411ec9fdf5851fb16221e
Karen Attiah, op-ed columnist, Washington Post, 2019 NABJ Journalist of the Year, formerly global opinions editor
https://wapo.st/3IGo04D
https://www.nabj.org/news/455676/
Kevin B. Blackistone, Washington Post sports columnist, professor at the University of Maryland, ESPN panelist
https://wapo.st/3uvv5Qn
Mary C. Curtis, columnist, Roll Call; contributor, NPR/WFAE Charlotte; senior facilitator/Public Voices Fellowship Program | The OpEd Project < http://bit.ly/354QGDs>
Joe Davidson, federal government columnist, Washington Post; co-founder, National Association of Black Journalists
< https://wapo.st/36ODXZp >
Lewis Diuguid, retired editorial board member and columnist, Kansas City Star
https://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1627340998
Courtland Milloy, Metro columnist, Washington Post
< https://wapo.st/3tJ2tEi >
Michael Paul Williams, columnist, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner for commentary
< https://bit.ly/2T3XIWk >
. . . and listener call-ins.
Hosted by Richard Prince