Denise Rolark Barnes
Publisher/Journalist/Host
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Denise Rolark Barnes is the publisher and second-generation owner of The Washington Informer, succeeding her father, the late Dr. Calvin W. Rolark, who founded the newspaper in 1964.
The Washington Informer is a multi-media organization serving the African American community in the Washington metropolitan area.
Denise is also president of Washington Informer Charities, a non-profit organization that promotes 21st-century literacy and promotes African American history, culture, and literature.
Rolark Barnes is past chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association. She serves on the boards of several local non-profit, community and municipal organizations, including the Washington Convention and Sports Authority (Events DC), the DC Martin Luther King Holiday Commission, National Newspaper Publishers Association Fund, the Maryland, Delaware, DC Press Association, and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. She is an inductee in the D.C. Hall of Fame. She lives in Washington, DC.
