Journalists, Writers & Producers
Judy Belk
Journalist / Writer
Judy Belk, an Alexandria native, is a frequent writer and speaker on organizational ethics, race, and social change. Belk has been recognized through several states’ and national awards. A T.C. Williams High School graduate, she has over 25 years experience in international giving, corporate social responsibility, and family philanthropy.
Marie Bradby
Journalist / Writer
Native Alexandrian Marie Bradbyis an award-winning journalist and children’s author, and one of several children who integrated Alexandria public schools. Her picture book More Than Anything Else is well-known nationally and internationally in schools and libraries. It won the International Reading Association Award for its fictionalized account of Booker T. Washington’s childhood struggle to learn to read.
Mable Lyles
Educator / Writer
Mable Lyles began her education in a one-room school. Mable graduated from Virginia Union University in Richmond. She began teaching in the Alexandria schools in September 1954, and retired from the school system in 1988. In 2006, she published a book, Caught Between Two Systems: Desegregating Alexandria’s Schools 1954-1973.
Adrienne Terrell Washington
Journalist / Educator
Alexandria native Adrienne Terrell Washington is an award-winning journalist, television and radio commentator, and college professor known for her columns that focus on public policy issues, particularly socioeconomic injustices towards women and minorities. As the director of the Fort Ward and Seminary African American Descendants Society, Washington is leading an effort to preserve, document and create a historical record of a forgotten pre-Civil War African American community.
Derek Lymus
Media Producer
Derek Lymus has touched the lives of many Alexandrians through the lens of his camera, as a volunteer for Hoop Academy Project, a nonprofit organization in Alexandria. In 1995, Derek began the documentation and preservation of unforgettable events and oral history of legendary Alexandrians. He has indiscriminately captured over 100 documentaries firsthand, treasured keepsakes to be shared by future generations.
Alexandria African American Hall of Fame
