NABJ and the Black AIDS Institute will team up for a year-long partnership focused on raising HIV/AIDS awareness in the black community. The goal of the Test 1 Million HIV/AIDS awareness campaign, announced Thursday during a news conference, is to get 1 million African-Americans tested for HIV/AIDS within tone year.

As city leaders agreed to break ground on downtown’s San Diego Central Library, residents of surrounding neighborhoods worry the $185 million, state-of-the-art structure will become a safe haven for the area’s homeless.

NABJ members who attended the 2007 Convention and Career Fair in Las Vegas, might notice the similarity between the 2007 bags and this year’s bags. Interim NABJ Executive Director Drew Berry said the bags aren’t just similar, they’re the same. Berry said some members liked the bags so much that he ordered the same design for this year.

By STACIE BAILEY nabjconvention.org African-Americans are more susceptible to high blood pressure and diabetes than any other race, said Dr. Mehmet Oz of the “Dr. Oz Show.” He urged black journalists to share information about healthy lifestyles at the opening plenary session of the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention in San Diego on [...]

By Letrell Crittenden and Dallas Wright nabjconvention.org Multimedia skills development and openness to career change were main themes during Thursday’s workshop sessions of NABJ’s 2010 Convention and Career Fair. While some panels focused on other issues, such as sports and the minority press, well over half of the sessions were geared toward training conference participants [...]

Shirley Sherrod: Continuing Coverage The former USDA Georgia rural development director addressed black journalists during the panel discussion, “Context and Consequences: Conversation with Shirley Sherrod.” Video Highlights from the Shirley Sherrod plenary Video of Shirley Sherrod’s NABJ press conference Read the articles written about this event below Here is a list of articles related to [...]

By NATELEGÉ WHALEY nabjconvention.org SAN DIEGO— Shirley Sherrod, a fired former director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said she plans to file a lawsuit against a popular conservative Internet blogger and urged journalists to work on stories that matter at the National Association of Black Journalist convention on Thursday. Sherrod, 62, answered questions put [...]

By WESLEY LOWERY and MARSHALL LATIMORE nabjconvention.org Tourism industry reps from Toronto hoped a poolside reception — complete with and open bar, hors d’oeuvres and the smooth sounds of R&B and jazz spun by a deejay  – AND a $2,500 check for student programming would serve as the perfect pick-up line to score the ultimate [...]

The executive board of the National Association of Black Journalists voted unanimously Tuesday to delay plans to pick the destination for the 2016 convention.