National Newspaper Publishers Association

And though I took it for granted at the time, this was a privilege to meet the great black personalities of our time.

They included Langston Hughes, my favorite poet, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Hazel Scott, the vocalist and pianist, Dr. Charles Drew, a scientist in blood plasma, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder and president of Bethune-Cookman College, Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett, physician and president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, and many, many others whose names read like a roster of who's who in Negro America.

She remembers the Great Depression of the 1930s.

During the depression of the early 1930s, I faintly remember soup lines and old men standing around a fire trying to warm their frozen hands.

Yeah, I chaired Word in Black.

I was the inaugural chair through December 2025, so I'm not chairing Word in Black at this time, and I'm not the vice chair of NNPA right now either, and that's the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

Well, I was worried how you were going to fit it all in.

So I'm glad to know that you've passed the baton on some things.