This week, I’m heading to New Orleans to attend the annual
convention for the National Association of Black Journalists. There’s a lot of
folks who will be there that I’ve admired for years as well as fellow peers and
colleagues that I have yet to meet. Is it intimidating? Honestly, yes and I
wouldn’t have it any other way because it excites me. The same way going to the
National Youth Leadership Conference and NCORE excited me in 2002 and 2005,
respectively.
But this trip will be awesome for the simple fact that I’m
in the city I’ve wanted to visit again for eight years. The Fatherland as I
call it since my Dad called it home. It’s story time, kids, so pull up a chair
and listen up.
