NNPA MEETING WITH BAHAMAS AMBASSADOR TO THE US — The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), whose membership includes the publishers and editors of all the Black-owned newspapers in the United States, will be holding its mid-winter conference in Nassau, Bahamas, at the British Colonial Hilton from Wednesday, Jan. 28 – 31, 2015. As a prelude to the mid-winter conference, NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., the noted former civil rights leader and a former President of the NAACP, and Mrs. Denise Rolark Barnes, Editor and Publisher of The Washington Informer, the NNPA’s award-winning newspaper in Washington, D.C., paid a courtesy call on His Excellency Dr. Eugene Newry, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States, on Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, at the Bahamas Embassy, 2220 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Pictured from left are: Krissy Hanna, Second Secretary, Bahamas Embassy; Mrs. Rolark-Barnes; Dr. Chavis; Ambassador Newry; and Mr. Mikhail Bullard, Third Secretary, Bahamas Embassy.
