Back In Washington, D.C. and It Won't Stop Raining
Friday, October 16, 2009 at 8:14AM
Howard U. New Media panelists (left to right) Nonso Christian Ugbode, HaJ and The Snob.I'm baaaack!
Washington, D.C. I can't seem to stay away. This time I only lasted a week without you before I had to run back to speak on a panel at Howard University as I returned to our Nation's Capital for the fifth time this year.
Bryan Hanley of the new Web site I Am African American, which will launch soon, and myself at the Howard University School of Communications Job Fair where I spoke on the Tickles.tv panel on being an Urban Chameleon.
Thursday was the Howard University School of Communications Job Fair where I sat on the Tickles.tv "Urban Chameleon" panel on new media. I was on the panel with HaJ, the founder of Tickles.tv, Thabi Mayo, a Howard alum and the moderator, filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira, William Jelani Cobb, history professor and writer, Nonso Christian Ugbode, a web producer, and Natalie Hopkinson, associate editor at TheRoot.com. It was great meeting everyone, especially HaJ and Thabi, who hooked everything up for this trip and have been marvelous hostesses and it was wonderful seeing Natalie again. (Wassup to everyone at The Root!)
While I was there I ran into BlackSnob reader Bryan Hanley of Brooklyn, New York who is starting his own Web site, I Am African American and my friend Charles Ellison of POTUS XM/Sirius radio who was there helping out his charming wife, Dian Butler-Ellison of the Associated Press. They have the world's most adorable 4-year-old. I spent a brunch about a month ago with Charles and the child, their daughter Croix -- forgive me, Charles and Dian if I mispell the child's name. Despite her brightness she's not on Google and doesn't have business cards. I'm sure she will by age five at the rate she's going. -- and it sent my biological clock into overdrive. I was pleased to learn that Croix told her mother that I was "her" friend, not just her daddy's.
I also met a TJ Holmes fan (whoo hoo!), who gave me a shout-out. After explaining my TJ Holmes coverage strategy, Jelani Cobb offered up that he would be meeting TJ soon at another event. I instructed Cobb as I do to all people within one degree of TJ -- from Suzanne Malveaux to Jamal Simmons to Roland Martin -- Tell TJ, I said, "Hi."
Overall it was a busy, rainy day, filled of hopping in and out of taxis, trying to protect the Dominican blowout that won't die sans umbrella. (I'm shocked, it's been more than two weeks now.) I'm in town through Tuesday having meetings with folks. Running around. Kicking it with colleagues and friends. I'm hopefully solidifying some personal "bidness."
Because it's D.C. and I can't network and work the WHOLE time, I'll be trend-spotting for most of my weekend with friends at some cultural hotspots. Naturally, I will take pictures and write about it.
Reader Comments (2)
Girl tell me about it. I live in DC and yesterday my hair just FLAT. OUT. DIED. I had to pull it up b/c my curls were gone. Maybe I need to try one of those Dominican blowouts one day.
When are you coming to stay, Danielle?