Danny Bakewell

Danny Bakewell is President of the National Newspaper Publishers Association and President and CEO of the Bakewell Company. Mr. Bakewell began his career as a community activist as the Director of New Careers at UCLA, and later became involved with the Black Congress and the Brotherhood Crusade. For more than three decades, Bakewell was at the helm of the Brotherhood Crusade. Under his guidance and bold leadership, the organization has grown considerably, and due to his efforts, the Brotherhood Crusade is now a nationally recognized civil rights advocate organization providing more than sixty million dollars to community programs and services throughout Southern California.

Mr. Bakewell is also the co-founder of National Black United Fund, which has twenty-two affiliates nationwide. Aside from being a community activist, Bakewell is a minority media owner and businessman. His most recent media acquisition is the purchase of WBOK Radio station in New Orleans, Louisiana, which adds to his family’s growing media holdings, which includes the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper, the oldest and the largest Black-owned newspaper on the West Coast and the recently named nation’s Number One Black Newspaper.

As Chairman of the Bakewell Company, one of the largest African-American owned development companies in the United States, Mr. Bakewell brokers and heads multi-million dollar revitalization efforts in the cities of Los Angeles, Compton, Pasadena, and other California communities. .