08/20/2026
Natalie Hopkinson, foremost authority on D.C.'s go-go music, is the latest addition to the Aug. 24 Journal-isms Roundtable on music journalism.
She joins:
Miles Marshall Lewis, cultural historian of the Hip Hop Museum, pop culture critic, essayist, literary editor, fiction writer, and music journalist.
Regina Jones, co-founder and publisher of Soul newspaper, the world’s first soul music-focused publication, first published on April 14, 1966.
Bruce Talamon, photographer who started out with Soul, and was our guest at Roundtables on Jesse Jackson (last December) and on his own photography of “R&B royalty” in 2022.
Felix Contreras, co-creator and co-host of “Alt.Latino,” NPR’s pioneering radio show and podcast celebrating Latin music and culture since 2010.
Willard Jenkins, artistic director of the DC Jazz Fest, author of “Ain’t But a Few of Us” (Duke University Press, 2022), “of dialogues with Black music writers – primarily jazz writers"
Leonard Pitts Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning former syndicated Miami Herald columnist who got his start in the business writing for Soul newspaper.
Also in the room:
H. Zahra Caldwell, author of “The Fiercest King: Five Black Women in Art, Performance and Resistance, 1937-1965,” who has written about musicians and music.
Lisa E. Davis, entertainment lawyer; author, "Our Minds Were Always Free: A History of How Black Brilliance Was Exploited — and the Fight to Retake Control"
Details here: https://www.journal-isms.com/save-the-date-aug-24-for-whats-it-like-to-be-a-music-journalist-notices-7-30-26/
