Presidents

1944-45 Al Smith, Chicago Defender
1945-46 John Young, Pittsburgh Courier
1946-47 Arthur Carter, Afro-American
1947-48 James Hicks, Nattional Newspaper Publishers Association
1948-49 Herbert Henegan, U.S. Dept. of Agricultre
1949-50 Al Smith, Chicago Defender
1950 Lemuel Graves, Pittsburgh Courier
1950-52 Oscar Haynes, Afro-American
1952-54 Alfred Sweeney, Afro-American
1954-55 Odis Von Blasingame, United Broadcasting Company
1955-56 William Parker, Freedmen's Hospital
1956-57 Simeon Booker, Johnson Publishing Company
1957-58 Sherman Briscoe, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
1958-60 E. Fannie Granton, Johnson Publications
1960-61 Dolphin G. Thompson, WOOK Radio
1961-62 Otis N. Thompson, Moss Kendrix & Associates
1962-65 Wallace Terry, Time Magazine
1965-66 Jesse Lewis, Washington Post
1966-68 Larry Still, Johnson Publshing Company
1968-70 Harold L. Keith, Department of HUD
1970-72 Ethel L. Payne, Chicago Defender
1972-75 Johnnie A. Moore, U.S. Civil Service
1975-77 Dr. Calvin W. Rolark, Washington Informer
1977-79 Marion Hayes Hull, Booker T. Washington Foundation
1979-81 Dwight M. Ellis, National Association of Broadcasters
1981-82 Janet Dewart, Dewart, Inc.
1982-85 Lon G. Walls, WHMM-TV
1985 Peter Woolfolk, National Education Association
1985-86 Arthur Johnson, Potomac Electric Power Co.
1987-89 Claryce Handy, National Association of Broadcasters
1989-96 Lon G. Walls, Childrens Hospital, Walls & Associates
1996-2003 Jacqui A. Showers, The Showers Group
2003 - 2007 Derrick Kenny, Bold American Marketing
2008 Kevin Briscoe, Amtrak