National Association of Black Journalists

Hall of
Fame
Induction & Luncheon

August 5, 2016
Washington Marriott Wardman Park
Washington, D.C.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

NATIONAL OFFICE STAFF

PRESIDENT
Sarah Glover
NBC Owned Television Stations

EXECUTIVE CONSULTANT
Drew Berry

VICE PRESIDENT, PRINT

Marlon A. Walker
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
VICE PRESIDENT, DIGITAL
Bent J. Wilson
Aviation Queen LLC
VICE PRESIDENT, BROADCAST
Dorothy Tucker
WBBM-TV
SECRETARY
Sherlon Christie
Asbury Park Press
TREASURER
Greg Morrison
Bumper2BumperTV
PARLIAMENTARIAN
Dave Jordan
WSPA-TV
DIRECTOR, REGION I
Johann Calhoun
The Philadelphia Tribune
DIRECTOR, REGION II
Vickie Thomas
WWJ//CBS Radio
DIRECTOR, REGION III
Gayle Hurd
WPTF-AM/NC News Network
DIRECTOR, REGION IV
Marcus Vanderberg
Yahoo! Sports
ACADEMIC REPRESENTATIVE
Michelle Johnson
Boston University
MEDIA REPRESENTATIVE
Tanzi West-Barbour
Policy Innovators for Education
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
Wilton Charles Jackson II
Louisiana State University

FINANCE MANAGER
Nathaniel Chambers
MEMBERSHIP MANAGER
Veronique Dodson
PROGRAM MANAGER
Scott Berry
PROGRAM MANAGER
Lisa Waldschmitt
DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT
JoAnne Lyons Wooten
DEVELOPMENT CONCIERGE
CONSULTANT
Heidi Stevens
COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT
Aprill O. Turner
STAFF ACCOUNTANT
Sharon Odle

Today's Program
Welcome

Bill Whitaker

NABJ Founders Hall of Fame Inductees

Norma Adams-Wade
Carole Bartel
Edward Blackwell
Paul Brock
Reginald Bryant
Crispin Campbell
Marilyn Darling
Leon Dash
Joe Davidson
Allison J. Davis
Paul Delaney
William Dilday
Sandra Dillard

Joel Dreyfuss
Sam Ford
David Gibson
Sandra Gilliam-Beale
Bob Greenlee
Martha Griffin
Derwood Hall
Bob Hayes
Toni Jones
H. Chuku Lee
Claude Lewis
Sandra Dawson Long
Weaver

Pluria Marshall
Acel Moore
Luix Overbea
Claudia Polley
Alex Poinsett
Richard Rambeau
W. Curtis Riddle
Jeannye Thornton
Francis Ward
Charlotte Roy
Vince Sanders
John C. White
DeWayne Wickham

Partner Remarks

Al-Jazeera Media Network

Hall of Fame Inductees

Tony Brown
Dorothy Leavell
Monica Kaufman Pearson
Austin Long-Scott
Jacqueline Trescott
John H. White

Hall of Fame Posthumous Inductees

Charles Gerald Fraser
Dori Maynard
Gil Noble
Stuart Scott
Morrie Turner
L. Alex Wilson

Presidents Remarks

Sarah Glover, NABJ President

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

On behalf of the board of
the National Association of
Black Journalists (NABJ), we
thank you for joining us for
our Hall of Fame Induction
Ceremony and Luncheon.
Since 1990, NABJ has
honored pioneering
journalists who represent
the best and brightest
in journalism and whose
contributions to the craft have been legendary in nature. Our
honorees are role models who have committed themselves to
ensuring freedom of the press and phenomenal reporting and
storytelling. Todays recipients include: Tony Brown, Monica
Kaufman Pearson, Dorothy Leavell, Austin Long-Scott,
Jacqueline Trescott, John H. White, Charles Gerald Fraser, Dori
Maynard, Gil Noble, Stuart Scott, Morrie Turner, and L. Alex
Wilson.
We will also recognize our beloved founders that have not
already received this prestigious honor. We appreciate their
efforts for paving the way for our organization.
Today is a special day, and it would not be possible without
the generous support of members and colleagues like you
who have joined us for this occasion. Proceeds from todays
events benefit NABJ programs, geared at ensuring that the
nations newsrooms are as diverse as its readers, listeners and
viewers. I would like to thank our committee, Maureen Bunyan,
Lynn Norment and Paul Brock, for making tonights festivities
possible.
Finally, I would like to thank our partners at Al-Jazeera for their
generous support of the event.
Again thank you for joining us as we induct our newest members
into the NABJ Hall of Fame. Let us continue to be committed
to the cause of promoting diverse newsrooms which chronicle
an increasingly multicultural society, with truly representative
viewpoints and perspectives.
Yours in service,

Sarah Glover
President, National Association of Black Journalists

Our Host
Bill Whitaker was named a 60 Minutes correspondent in March
2014; the 2015-16 season is his second on the broadcast.
Whitaker, an Emmy-winner, has covered virtually all of the major
news stories in the West since he was posted to Los Angeles in
1992, reporting regularly for the CBS Evening News and other
CBS News broadcasts.
Whitaker is a seasoned foreign correspondent and frequently
reports from overseas, recently covering the funeral of Nelson
Mandela from South Africa, the Fukushima nuclear disaster
from Japan, and from Haiti after the tragic earthquake there.
He reported from Kabul during the early stages of the War in
Afghanistan.
In 2008, he covered Mitt Romneys presidential campaign. He
was the lead reporter covering the 2000 presidential campaign of
George W. Bush.
Prior to his assignment to Los Angeles, Whitaker served as
CBS News Tokyo correspondent (1989-92). There, he covered
stories throughout Asia, including the pro-democracy uprising in
Tiananmen Square, military coup attempts in the Philippines and
the enthronement of Japans Emperor Akihito. He was in Baghdad
for the build-up to Desert Storm.
Before that, Whitaker was based in Atlanta (1985-88), where he
won an Emmy for his reports on the collapse of Jim and Tammy
Bakkers television ministry and covered the 1988 presidential
campaign of Michael Dukakis. Whitaker joined CBS News as a
reporter in November 1984.
Whitaker was born in Philadelphia on August, 26, 1951; he was
graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a B.A.
degree in American history and from Boston University with
a masters degree in African-American studies. Whitaker also
attended the Master of Journalism program at the University of
California, Berkeley. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate of
Humane Letters from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1997.

Our Founders
In 1975, NABJs founders sought to change a racially barren media landscape so white
and male, it was rarely called the mainstream media. Instead, critics and dispassionate
observers defined it as the white-controlled media. Many of the founders were the
first or second black journalists hired at daily newspapers or TV news outlets. Many of
them did not major in the craft in college; they were drafted and participated in boot
camp-style programs such as the Summer Program for Minority Journalists at Columbia
University in order to desegregate newsrooms. Meanwhile, scores of African-American
students began considering journalism as a career. In 1972, the Dow Jones Newspaper
Fund announced that 162 Negroes received journalism degrees, a 184-percent increase
from 1969.
NABJ was created because a committee of organizers led by Paul Brock invited dozens
of black journalists to cover a conference of black elected officials. Once that work was
done, the newspeople were encouraged to get together and form a national association.
At least 100 people were at the founding at the Sheraton Park Hotel (now the
Washington Marrioot Wardman Park, the site of NABJs 2016 convention), which
Maureen Bunyan said recently was one of the few D.C. hotels welcoming to black
patrons; however only 44 were deemed full-time working journalists, not partisans or
lobbyists, eligible for membership.
The founders stated 12 objectives:

Strengthen the ties between blacks in the white media and blacks in the black
media;
Sensitize the white media to the institutional racism in its coverage and
employment practices by monitoring EEO and FCC regulations and work to seek
compliance where necessary;
Award scholarships to journalism programs that especially supported
minorities;
Expand the white medias coverage and balanced reporting of the black
community;
Become an exemplary group of professionals that honors excellence and
outstanding achievement among black journalists;
Critique through a national newsletter examples of the medias reportorial
deficiencies as they affect blacks;
Encourage journalism schools to appoint black professionals through the work
of a liaison committee;
Work with high schools to identify journalists;
Act as a clearinghouse for jobs;
Expand opportunities for black journalists by assisting in recruiting activities;
Work to upgrade black journalists in managerial and supervisory positions;
Maintain a national office with a paid secretary for the clearinghouse.

These modest objectives were not achieved easily. From 1976 to 1983, the leaders
worked without a national office and struggled to keep NABJ functioning. About 300
members attended annual conferences. A periodical the NABJ Journal did not launch
until 1981. Like the Colonial-era founding fathers who pledged their lives, their fortunes,
their sacred honor, NABJs founders endured adversity and hardships, yet stayed true to
their mission to integrate and elevate the American news media, mostly from within.
Today we salute the men and women that founded our beloved association.
-- Wayne Dawkins

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Our Founders
Norma
Adams-Wade
Dallas Morning News
Carole Bartel
CORE Magazine
Edward Blackwell*
Milwaukee Journal
Paul Brock
Founding
Executive Director
Reginald Bryant*
Black Perspective on the
News
Maureen Bunyan
WTOP-TV
Washington, D.C.
Crispin Campbell
WNET-TV
New York
Charlie Cobb
WHUR Radio
Washington, D.C.
Marilyn Darling
WHYY-TV
Wilmington, Del.

Sandra Dillard
Denver Post

Pluria Marshall
Freelancer

Joel Dreyfuss
The Washington Post

Acel Moore*
Philadelphia
Inquirer

Sam Ford
WCCO-TV
Minneapolis

Luix Overbea*
Christian Science Monitor

David Gibson
Mutual Black Network

Les Payne
Newsday

Sandra Gilliam-Beale
WHIO-TV
Dayton, Ohio

Claudia Polley
NBC

Bob Greenlee
New Haven
Register
Martha Griffin
National Public Radio
Derwood Hall*
WSOC-TV
Charlotte
Bob Hayes
San Francisco Examiner

Alex Poinsett*
Ebony Magazine
Richard Rambeau
Project Bait
Detroit
Max Robinson*
WTOP-TV
Washington, D.C.
Chuck Stone*
Philadelphia Daily News

Vernon Jarrett*
Chicago Tribune

W. Curtis Riddle
Louisville (Ky.) Courier
Journal

Leon Dash
The Washington Post

Mal Johnson*
Cox Broadcasting

Jeannye Thornton
U.S. News & World Report

Joe Davidson
Philadelphia Bulletin

Toni Jones
Detroit Free Press

Francis Ward
Los Angeles Times

Allison J. Davis
WBZ-TV
Boston

H. Chuku Lee
Africa Journal Ltd.

Charlotte Roy
Detroit Free Press

Claude Lewis
Philadelphia Bulletin

Vince Sanders
National Black Network

Sandra Dawson Long

Weaver
News Journal
Wilmington, Del.

John C. White
Washington Star

Paul Delaney
The New York Times
William Dilday
WLBT-TV
Jackson, Miss.
*Deceased

DeWayne Wickham
The Baltimore Sun

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Tony Brown is an
African-American
journalist, academician and
entrepreneur. He is best
known as the commentator
of Tony Browns Journal,
the long-running series
on PBS, and a nationally
syndicated television
series.

TonyBrown

Segregation and poverty

were a part of Browns
upbringing and influenced
his view that freedom can
be achieved only through
economic means.

After serving in the army

from 1953 to 1955, Brown enrolled
in Wayne State University in Detroit;
he studied sociology and psychology,
graduating with a bachelors degree in
1959. Later, Brown continued his studies
at Wayne State, focusing on psychiatric
social work and earned his masters
degree in 1961.
After changing careers, Brown became
a drama critic for the Detroit Courier in
1962.
Over the next 30 years, Brown hosted
and produced programming that
concerned the black community. While
at WTVS, he produced Colored Peoples
Time, the stations first show aimed at a
black audience, and Free Play, another
community-oriented program.
In 1970, Brown became executive
producer and host of Black Journal, a New
York-based program that aired nationally
and had begun in 1968; it consisted
of commentaries, documentaries, and
surveys. Browns approach to Black
Journal garnered much criticism. In 1977,
Brown negotiated a contract with the
Pepsi-Cola Company to sponsor the show,
changing its name to Tony Browns Journal
and moving it to commercial television.
He maintained a strong presence in
community-oriented programs as well as
launching initiatives of his own. His belief
that education was the key to success
prompted him to initiate Black College
Day to highlight black colleges and the
need for African American youth to pursue
a college education.

AUGUST 5, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C.

Gerald Fraser was best

known for covering the
aftermath of the bloody
Attica prison uprising in
upstate New York and the
pioneering presidential
campaign of Shirley
Chisholm in his 24 years as
a reporter for The New York
Times.
While attending the
University of WisconsinMadison, Mr. Fraser
worked on the student
newspaper and earned
a bachelors degree in
economics in 1949. He
later earned a masters
degree at what was then
the New School for Social
Research in New York.

The Times hired him as a metropolitan

reporter; one of his beats was covering
the courts. He also wrote about the
condition of black prisoners, including
those involved in the 1971 Attica
rebellion. He later worked in The Timess
cultural news department and wrote
columns for the weekly television guide
and the Sunday Book Review.
When Mr. Fraser joined the paper, he
became one of only two black reporters
on the staff at that time. The other,
Thomas A. Johnson, had been hired a
year earlier. Mr. Fraser became a vocal
advocate for improving coverage of
issues important to blacks and expanding
opportunities for black journalists.
He left The Times in 1991 and joined
Earth Times, a monthly that reported on
environmental and development issues at
the United Nations. He became a senior
editor there.
Mr. Fraser taught at Columbia Universitys
Graduate School of Journalism and at John
Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City
University of New York.
Fraser died on Dec. 8, 2015 at the age
of 90.

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Before joining The Times in 1967, Mr.

Fraser reported for The Daily News in New
York, covering riots in Harlem and civil
rights marches in Alabama.

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Veteran television journalist

and broadcaster Monica
Kaufman made history as
the first African American
to anchor one of the local
newscasts in Atlanta,
Georgia.

MonicaKauffmanPearson

When she began anchoring

the news for the citys
ABC affiliate in 1975,
Atlanta was just beginning
to emerge as the Souths
most important black
metropolis.

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Kaufman studied at the

University of Louisville but
dropped out at the age of
nineteen to marry. After
being told she didnt possess any skills to
be on TV she enrolled in a charm course.
One of her assignments in the charmschool course involved modeling in a
restaurant, where she caught the attention
of the news director for a rival television
station in Louisville. Two years after being
hired as the news anchor at WHAS, in
1973 she was lured to Atlanta, Georgia to
serve as the nightly news anchor at WSBTV, an ABC affiliate.
By the time her twenty-fifth anniversary at
WSB neared in August of 2000, she had
been on the air longer than any other local
journalist in Atlanta and was one of the
longest-serving news anchors in any U.S.
market.
Three decades later, Kaufman is a
much-loved local celebrity known as
much for her reporting skills and multiple
local Emmy awards as she is for her
commitment to many civic and charitable
organizations. She is also proud to serve
as a role model for future journalists.

AUGUST 5, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C.

Dorothy Leavell was born

in Pine Bluff, Arkansas on
October 23, 1944. Leavell
was the valedictorian of
her Merrill High School
class of 1962 and after
relocating to Chicago,
Leavell attended Roosevelt
University.
Leavells first husband,
Balm L. Leavell, Jr.,
founded the Crusader
newspaper in Chicago in
1940 and twenty years
later, began publishing a
similar newspaper in Gary,
Indiana. From the time of
her husbands death in
1968, Leavell has served
the Crusader as publisher and editor while
rehabilitating its facilities and modernizing
the production process.

A member of the NNPA for more than

forty-two years, Mrs. Leavell has served in
various other capacities including assistant
secretary, a member of the board of
directors, and as treasurer, a post she held
for ten years.
Leavell has often been honored and
recognized for her philanthropic and civic
contributions. A recipient of many awards,
she was honored as NNPAs Publisher
of the Year; Winnie Mandela Endurance
with Dignity Award; the National
Association of Black Media Women; the
Fourth District Community Improvement
Association Award in Gary; and Dollars &
Sense Magazine Award for Excellence in
Business, among many others.

DorothyLeavell

Leavell was elected president of

the National Newspaper Publishers
Association (NNPA) in June of 1995 for a
two-year term and was re-elected in June
1997 ending her term in 1999. During
her tenure, she increased the visibility and
international stature of the organization.
In June of 2006, Leavell was elected
Chairman of the National Newspaper
Publishers Association Foundation.

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DoriMaynard

Journalism Professor Dori

Maynard was born on May
4, 1958 in New York, New
York. She was raised by her
father, Robert C. Maynard
and step-mother, Nancy
Hicks Maynard. In 1977,
Maynards parents founded
the Institute for Journalism
Education, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to
training journalists of color
and improving diversity in
the media. They became
the first African American
owners of a major
metropolitan newspaper
when they bought The
Oakland Tribune in 1984.
Maynard attended Middlebury College
and graduated with her B.A. degree in
American history. In 1992, Maynard
was awarded a Nieman Fellowship from
Harvard University. Maynard and her
father were the first father-daughter duo
to have received this award. Maynard
specialized in researching public policy
and poverty. In 1994, Maynard began
working at the Robert C. Maynard
Institute for Journalism Education,
renamed after Robert Maynards
death. Maynard worked on the Fault
Lines Project, a concept her father
had originated, which later became
the Institutes organizing principle
for diversity initiatives. Maynard also
began work on the History Project, a
groundbreaking archive documenting
and preserving the stories of African
American journalists who integrated
mainstream media in the 1960s and
1970s.
In 2001, Maynard was appointed
president of the Robert C. Maynard
Institute and she received the Fellow
of Society award from the Society of
Professional Journalists that same year.
In 2004, Maynard was named one of the
10 Most Influential African Americans
in the Bay Area by CityFlight Media
Network.
Maynard wrote many articles dealing
with issues of race and diversity in
the media. She also wrote about her
attempts to live on the fault lines in her
daily life.
Maynard died of lung cancer on Feb. 24,
2015, at the age of 56.

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AUGUST 5, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C.

Emmy-award winning Gil

Noble, who produced
and hosted the public
affairs program Like It
Is, interviewed famous
African Americans such as
Malcolm X, Martin Luther
King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer
and Paul Robeson. During
his career, he worked to
correct negative media
representations of African
Americans and promoted
ethics and objectivity in
journalism.
In 1967, Noble auditioned
for a TV reporter position
at WABC. On his second
audition assignment, he
was called to cover violence in Newark,
New Jerseys Central Ward. Blacks
had been shut off by a National Guard
barricade while white city officials and
journalists stood at the perimeter. Noble
was able to cross the barricade and get
the story from the black communitys
perspective. Because of his reports, he
was hired.

Over the years, Noble saw the

documentary as the central focus and
most rewarding aspect of his career. Like
It Is resulted in the largest collection
of programs and documentaries on the
African-American experience in the last
half of the 20th century. In 2002, he
survived an attempt by WABC to cancel
his contract and show. Supporters of the
show held rallies in its defense and the
show remains on the air.

GilNoble

By 1968, he was anchoring weekend

newscasts. At that time, WABC created a
black-oriented program in response to the
assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. Actor Robert Hooks was the host and
Noble was the interviewer. When Hooks
accepted an acting job, Noble replaced
him as host. In the beginning, Like It Is
largely focused on entertainers. However,
when Noble became the shows producer
in 1975, he turned its focus to the more
serious issues of the black experience.

Noble was also a pioneer in a business

sense. In 2008, he secured the copyright
to all of the Like it Is shows from the
1960s onward. He wanted them used to
educate schoolchildren and interested
adults. Noble passed away on April 5,
2012 at the age of 80.

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AustinLongScott

After getting a B.A. in

journalism from Stanford
in 1961, Austin Scott,
became the first AfricanAmerican reporter hired
full-time by The Associated
Press. AP put him in
Sacramento covering the
California Legislature for
three years, then in 1964
moved him to New York
City. He covered the
Harlem riots that year, and
reported on similar urban
uprisings in city after city
over the next five years.

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By late 1969, as APs

senior black reporter,
he had covered most of
the nations major African-American
urban uprisings, except for Watts.
He also traveled extensively in the
South, beginning in 1965, to make
periodic assessments of the civil rights
movement, of efforts to end hunger, and
of other efforts to bring social change.
Scott was in the first group of
Professional Journalism Fellows (now
Knight Fellows) at Stanford University
in 1966, and was a Nieman Fellow
at Harvard in 1969-1970. After the
Neiman he worked with the APs Special
Assignment Team.
In 1972 he moved to The Washington
Posts national staff, where he covered
politics, poverty, social change and civil
rights issues for six years, ending up as
a relief White House reporter during
Watergate, and a regular White House
correspondent during Jimmy Carters
presidency. In his later years Scott
moved into teaching. As a professor
with an experience-based doctoral
equivalency from San Francisco State
University, Austin was twice acting chair
of the journalism department, and spent
one year as a Freedom Forum Fellow
studying how historically black colleges
teach journalism.
Along the way he helped found the
Washington Association of Black
Journalists, the Black Journalists
Association of Southern California,
and was co-chair of the Bay Area Black
Journalists Association.

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Stuart Scott was

a prominent ESPN
sportscaster who was
known for infusing his
reports with a blend of
pop culture references,
slang and exuberant
phrases that made him
something of a pop culture
figure in his own right.
Scott was born on July 19,
1965, in Chicago to O.
Ray and Jacqueline Scott.
When he was 7, his family
moved to Winston-Salem,
N.C., where he grew up
loving football and was a
captain of his high school
team. He played on a club
football team at the University of North
Carolina.

In July, Scott received a perseverance

award at the ESPYs, ESPNs televised
award ceremony. The honor is named
for Jim Valvano, a former North Carolina
State basketball coach who died of
cancer in 1993 at 47 after working as a
commentator for ESPN.
In accepting the award, Scott said that he
had had four operations in the previous
week and had had kidney failure and
kidney complications.
When you die, that doesnt mean you
lose to cancer, he said on the stage,
eliciting comparisons to the speech that
Valvano gave at the ESPYs shortly before
his death. You beat cancer by how you
live, why you live and the manner in
which you live. So live. Fight like hell, and
when you get too tired to fight, lay down
and rest and let someone else fight for
you.

Stuart Scott

Scott joined ESPN in 1993 for the

beginning of its first spinoff network,
ESPN2, but he soon moved to
SportsCenter, which had already
developed stars like Keith Olbermann,
Dan Patrick, Chris Berman, Robin
Roberts and Bob Ley. Scott became
defined as much for his energy, wit and
stylish wardrobe as for his arsenal of
catchphrases.

Scott passed away from appendiceal

cancer on Jan. 4, 2015 at the age of 49.

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Morrie Turner began

drawing caricatures in the
fifth grade. In high school,
he expanded to creating
cartoons. He joined the
Army-Air Force following
high school graduation, and
while on guard duty, he
drew cartoons.

MorrieTurner

His work was noticed and

he was hired by Stars and
Stripes to draw a series,
Rail Head, based on his
own war experiences.
Following the war, he
created community affairs
publications for the
Oakland Police Department
while freelancing cartoons
to national publications. Bakers Helper, a
baking industry publication, was the first
to buy one of his cartoons for $5.00.

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In the early 1960s, he created a

series, Dinky Fellas, that evolved into
Wee Pals, a world without prejudice
celebrating ethnic differences. In 1965,
the series became the first multi-ethnic
cartoon syndicated in the United
States. Wee Pals appears in over 100
newspapers worldwide. On Sundays an
additional panel is included called Soul
Corner detailing the life of a famous
person belonging to an ethnic minority.
Turner has written several childrens
books including The Illustrated Biography
of Martin Luther King, Jr. Turner was
honored by the Cartoonist Society
in 2000 when he was presented its
Sparky Award. He was inducted into the
California Public Education Hall of Fame
and recognized by Childrens Fairyland
in Oakland. He is the subject of a film
called Keeping the Faith with Morrie. Bill
Keene so admired Turners work that he
added a young black boy to his Family
Circle series named Morrie.
Turner passed away on Jan. 25, 2014.

AUGUST 5, 2016 WASHINGTON, D.C.

Journalist Jacqueline E.

Trescott enrolled at St.

Bonaventure University,
and was mentored by
Dr. Russell Jandoli. As a
student, she interviewed
Levi Stubbs of the Four
Tops and interned at the
The Newark Evening News
when the urban uprisings
of 1967 were raging.
Trescott graduated from
St. Bonaventure University
in 1968, earning her B.A.
degree in journalism.
In June 1970, she joined
The Washington Star
as a staff reporter. Her
assignments were primarily
for the Portfolio section, covering cultural
personalities and events.

The Virginia Press Association cited

Trescott and James Grimaldi for their
reporting in 2007. The use of the
Freedom of Information Act by Trescott
and Grimaldi in reviewing records at the
Smithsonian was a finalist in the 2009
Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.
competition.
In her last two years at the Post Trescott
helped create the Style Blog originally
called the Arts Post which combined
arts, news, and culture. The blog has also
served as a destination for features on the
dedication of the Martin L. King Memorial
Trescott posted a month of civil rights
songs to salute the occasion.
In her four decades, Trescott has
often interviewed musical and literary
personalities, such as Toni Morrison, Stevie
Wonder, Quincy Jones, Chita Rivera,
Denzel Washington, Oprah Winfrey and
Alice Walker.

JacquelineTrescott

From 1976 to June 2012, Trescott

worked for The Washington Post, reporting
for its award-winning Style Section.
Her assignments included political and
celebrity profiles, National Public Radio
and the local radio stations, and arts
events.

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John H. White bought

his first camera for fifty
cents and ten bubble
gum wrappers at the age
of 13. Later, as a staff
photographer for the
Chicago Sun-Times, White
toured the world, often
facing danger to capture
historical moments.

JohnH.White

Not only a full-time

photojournalist for a major
Chicago daily, White
also was a photography
teacher and head of
the photojournalism
department at Chicagos
Columbia College. He
was known for giving his
students a taste of what real life as a
photojournalist was like.

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As a photojournalist, White had to

practice what he taught and follow the
action no matter how dangerous, and has
admitted to being frightened.
In nearly thirty years as a photojournalist
he has earned over three hundred awards,
including the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.
Whites first book, a visual diary of the
Archbishop of Chicago Joseph Bernardin,
was published in 1996. This Man Bernardin
proved a critical success for White, and a
record-breaking bestseller for its publisher,
Loyola Press.
A photographer can be the eyes for
the world, White told the New Catholic
Explorer. Its a privilege and a tremendous
responsibility.

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L. Alex Wilson, who had

spent much of his career
reporting on beatings,
lynchings and murders
of southern African
Americans, often worked
80 hour weeks, writing
passionately on race
relations.

Soon after the Little Rock event where

he fearlessly reported from the inside, he
became editor of the Chicago Defender,
one of the nations leading black
newspapers.
But he died only a couple years later,
on Oct. 11, 1960 at the age of 51 from
what was likely Parkinsons disease
brought on by the beating he endured.
He never got to see the South that he
never stopped believing was possible.
Wilson left behind a daughter and a
wife, Emogene Wilson, also a journalist,
who has spent the last several decades
preserving his legacy in history. African
American journalists in Wilsons time
faced many adversities as they struggled
to gain access to stories while being shut
out by the official South.

L.AlexWilson

But Wilson, born in

Orlando in 1908, knew
even as child he would
become a journalist, and
that he would stop at
nothing for the truth.
He would never be just
a well-dressed man in a
photograph picking up his
hat with every blow that
knocked him down, destined merely to
symbolize the ills of racism. He was a
newspaperman, after all; he wrote the
very history he helped make.

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Past Inductees
1990 INDUCTEES
Dorothy Butler Gilliam
The Washington Post
Malvin Russell Goode
ABC News
Mal Johnson
New York Sun
Gordon Parks
Life Magazine
Ted Poston
The New York Post
Norma Quarles
NBC, CNN, & PBS
Carl T. Rowan
Syndicated Columnist
2004 INDUCTEES
John H. Johnson
Johnson Publishing Co.
Robert Maynard
Institute for Journalism Education
Chuck Stone
Founding NABJ President;
The Philadelphia Daily News
Robert S. Abbott
Founded the Chicago Defender
Samuel E. Cornish
Co-publisher, Freedoms Journal,
the nation's first black newspaper
Frederick Douglass
Former slave, prominent
abolitionist and the publisher of
the North Star
W.E.B. DuBois
NAACP founder and creator and
first editor of The Crisis
T. Thomas Fortune
One of the most prominent black
journalists in the post-Civil War era
Ethel Payne
First Lady of the Black Press, D.C.
correspondent for Sengstacke
Newspapers
Marcus Garvey
Journalist for Africa Times and
Orient Review, publisher of Negro
World

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2004 INDUCTEES (Cont.)

John B. Russwurm
Co-publisher of Freedoms Journal
John Sengstacke
Founder of Michigan Chronicle and
publisher of Chicago Defender and
Pittsburgh Courier
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Newspaper editor, crusader against
segregation and lynching in United
States
2005 INDUCTEES
Charles "Teenie" Harris
Photojournalist
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Broadcast Journalist & Author
Max Robinson
Founding NABJ Member; ABC
News
Carole Simpson
ABC News
2006 INDUCTEES
Lerone Bennett Jr.
Ebony magazine
Al Fitzpatrick
Knight-Ridder
William Raspberry
The Washington Post
2007 INDUCTEES
Xernona Clayton-Brady
Trumpet Awards founder and
broadcast pioneer
Merv Aubespin
Past NABJ President; The CourierJournal
John L. Dotson, Jr.
Akron Beacon Journal; Co-founder,
Robert C. Maynard Institute for
Journalism Education
Jim Vance
WRC-TV (Washington, DC)

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Past Inductees
2008 INDUCTEES
Charles E. Cobb, Jr.
AllAfrica.com
Belva Davis
KQED-TV (San Francisco)
Vernon Jarrett
The Chicago Tribune
Les Payne
Newsday
2009 INDUCTEES
Earl Caldwell
Reporter & Civil Rights Activist
Peggy Peterman
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Lynn Norment
EBONY Magazine
Larry Whiteside
The Boston Globe
2011 INDUCTEES
Ed Bradley
CBS News
Merri Dee
WGN-TV (Chicago)
JC Hayward
WUSA (Washington, DC)
Eugene Robinson
The Washington Post
Ray Taliaferro
KGO NEWSTALK AM (San
Francisco)
2012 INDUCTEES
Gwen Ifill
PBS
Pat Harvey
CBS2 (Los Angeles)
Ruth Allen Ollison
KHOU (Houston)
Johnathan Rodgers
TV One
Wallace Terry
Time Magazine

2013 INDUCTEES
Betty Winston Bay
The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Simeon Booker
The Washington Post & Jet
Magazine
Alice Dunnigan
White House, The State
Department, and Congressional
Correspondent
Sue Simmons
WNBC-TV
Wendell Smith
Legendary Sportswriter Who
Helped Desegregate Baseball
Cynthia Tucker
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
2014 INDUCTEES
Herb Boyd
Author and Educator
Maureen Bunyan
WTOP (Washington, D.C.)
Jay Harris
Journalist and Educator,
Medill School of Journalism at
Northwestern University
Moses Newson
Civil Rights Movement Journalist
Bernard Shaw
CNN
Jackie Ormes
First African American woman
newspaper cartoonist
Ernest Dunbar
Look Magazine
Dr. Lee Thornton
Journalist and Educator, Merrill
College of Journalism, University of
Maryland

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Special Thanks
Hall of Fame Committee:
Maureen Bunyan
Paul Brock
Lynn Norment
Program Book:
Lisa Waldschmitt
NABJ Convention Co-Chair:
Ryan Williams
Executive Producer:
Kerwin Speight
Event Production:
Tenisha Bell
Video Production:
Ebb and Flow Media
Special Thanks to Our Partners at
Al-Jazeera Media

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