Contributing Writers

Barrington Salmon

BARRINGTON SALMON is a professional journalist with an extensive array of interests and global insight. Salmon, raised in London and Jamaica, has lived, worked and studied in Miami, FL, Washington DC, Addis Ababa, Ghana, and the United Kingdom. He has a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications and an MA in Creative Writing and New Media from DeMontfort University in Leicester, UK. Salmon’s work has appeared in publications including USA Today, BET.com, Small Axe, The Washington Times, Black Scholar, Voice of America and The Final Call.

Sam P.K. Collins

Sam P.K. Collins is a grassroots journalist with multidisciplinary experience as a writer, editor, producer, researcher, and filmmaker.  As host and founder of AllEyesOnDC, he strives to provide a holistic news analysis of the situations people of African descent face in the nation’s capital, across the country, and globally. This mission crystallized in college and during subsequent professional experiences.

Sam’s previous experience includes writing reports of President Barack Obama’s activities as a White House press pool reporter for American Urban Radio Networks and interviewing D.C. residents as a general assignment reporter at the Informer. He has also had stints at ThinkProgress, National Public Radio and NBC Universal. Sam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication and a master’s degree in public policy from The George Washington University. There, he founded ACE Magazine, a multicultural campus publication. Sam is a native Washingtonian of Liberian descent.