From left, Benjamin Chavis, president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association; radio personality Mark Thompson, academician Leonard Jeffries; ,Don Rojas; the Rev. Herb Daughtry, pastor emeritus of the House of the Lord Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., host of the event; Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, and the Rev. Karen Daughtry of the House of the Lord Church. (Photo credit: Leonard Mckenzie)