NABJ Attendees Not Happy About Omarosa’s Presence

Attendees and participants of the National Association of Black Journalists annual conference are not happy about Omarosa’s attendance. Viewing her as an interloper, some were bothered by her last minute addition to a police brutality panel. NYT’s Nikole Hannah-Jones was scheduled to moderate the panel taking place Friday, which featured Valerie Castile, Sandra Sterling, and The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb. But Hannah-Jones and Cobb pulled out of the panel, and Bounce TV’s Ed Gordon stepped in to serve as the event’s moderator. Cobb told Page Six that the reason for pulling out “wasn’t simply the addition of Omarosa. It was that she was added at the eleventh hour and it was unclear whether we would be able to discuss substantive issues regarding the administration and its policing policies. Also, the panel was very disorganized, and basic things like format were not clear.” More here.