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National Newspaper Publishers Association to hold meeting in The Bahamas
By Oswald Brown
Jan 27, 2015 - 4:14:54 PM

In preparation for the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) mid-winter meeting, which opens in Nassau on Thursday, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., President of the NNPA, and Mrs. Denise Rolark-Barnes, Publisher and Editor of the Washington Informer, an NNPA award-winning member newspaper in Washington, D.C., paid a courtesy call on His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States in December. Pictured from left to right are Miss Krissy Hanna, Second Secretary, Bahamas Embassy; Mrs. Rolark-Barnes; Dr. Chavis; Ambassador Newry; and Mr. Mikhail Bullard, Third Secretary, Bahamas Embassy.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The annual mid-winter meeting of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), whose membership includes the publishers and editors of all the Black-owned newspapers in the United States, opens at the British Colonial Hilton in Nassau, Bahamas, this Wednesday, January 28 and will run through Saturday, January 31.

The President of the NNPA is Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., the noted civil rights leader and a former President of the NAACP. Deputy Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis is scheduled to address the publishers and editors on Thursday at their gala dinner.

In preparation for the Nassau meeting, Dr. Chavis and Mrs. Denise Rolark-Barnes, Publisher and Editor of the Washington Informer, an NNPA award-winning member newspaper in Washington, D.C., paid a courtesy call in December on His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States.

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