[2][3] The press release named the officers and executive board: The Executive Board: On December 15, 1975, member J. Whyatt “Jerry” Mondesire of the Philadelphia Inquirer filed Articles of Incorporation papers for the ABJ as a non-profit, three days after the founding of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
[5] Its early membership was restricted to working journalists, photographers and students, and was eventually expanded to include media professionals.
[5] Several PABJ members were among the 44 Black journalists from across the country who met in Washington, DC, to form NABJ on December 12, 1975.
They included Reginald "Reggie" Bryant, Chuck Stone, Acel Moore, Claude Lewis, Joe Davidson, Sandra Dawson (Long Weaver).
[11] ABJ held a meeting in September 1974 between PABJ member Moore and representatives of the Temple University School of Communications and Theater to discuss the hiring of Black newspeople.
Stone accused the university of having no Black faculty members, but a former Temple journalism department dean pushed back.
[12][13] In 1970, a professor in Temple’s communications school found in two surveys of newspapers across the country that the number of Blacks was under two percent.
Operation Push leader Jesse Jackson, Congressman Walter Fauntroy and actor Oscar Brown Jr. made an appearance.
Percy Qoboza, an anti-apartheid editor at South Africa’s largest Black newspaper, received the Orrin Evans-Art Peters Journalism Award.
In 1973, Moore and Bryant began hosting and co-producing “Black Perspective on the News” on WHYY-TV as a local news-analysis program.