Publishers, journalists, media and advertising specialists, and local leaders gathered at Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library on March 13 for Black Press Day, in celebration of the 198 years of African American publishing and storytelling.
An annual tradition for the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), often called the Black Press of America, the event honored publishers, emphasized the importance of speaking truth to power and offered calls to action in the age of federal and corporate efforts to reverse diversity, equity (DEI) and inclusion programming.