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NPC Newsmaker: Leaders of Actors’ Equity and Broadway Advocacy Coalition on challenges of reopening theater and creating more diversity onstage
Actors’ Equity Association president and actor Kate Shindle and actor Britton Smith, president of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, will discuss the challenges of reopening live theater amid the COVID-19 pandemic and progress toward making American theater more diverse and inclusive at National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 10 a.m. Actors’ Equity will also release a new report on how state and local grant policies and weaknesses in the National Endowment for the Arts guidelines affect efforts to increase diversity at arts organizations. Arts and cultural productions…
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21st Century Solutions to Community & Gun Violence
During Black History Month, a panel of national experts on community violence will discuss the public health crisis of gun violence in communities of color and the cutting-edge solutions that can create safe and vibrant communities. The discussion will be moderated by Emefa Addo Agawu, a Washington Post writer and producer of the Post’s Editorial Board project, Reimagine Safety, with opening remarks by Julie Rodriguez, Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Panelists will include Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott; Fatimah Loren Dreier, Executive Director of the…
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China in Africa
You are invited to attend a press conference and discussion hosted by Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C, on behalf of the Ogaden Community of the USA, an Ogaden-American organization in Minnesota. The event will take place on 3/31/2022 from 10.00 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. EDT. in the Zenger Room at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. Title of Press Conference and Discussion: China in Africa: Debt, Death, and the Projection of Chinese Military Power Outside Asia. Background The Chinese (via GCL-Poly - a Chinese government-backed firm) are drilling for gas and oil in the Somali (Ogaden) region of…
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Ukraine, Libya, and the Global Enduring Disorder
This event is co-hosted by the Middle East Institute (MEI) and the NATO and the Enduring Disorder Project. It is Open to the Public. Speakers: JASON PACK (Senior Analyst at the NATO Foundation and President of Libya-Analysis LLC) and AMBASSADOR JONATHAN WINER (Former US Special Envoy to Libya and Non-Resident Fellow at the Middle East Institute) Ukraine, Libya, and the Global Enduring Disorder Event Description: The world seems to have gone directly from a hegemonic US-led international system to an interregnum in global order. The traditional phase of multipolarity—or a restoration of…
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Strengthening Resilience to Extreme Poverty in Africa's Drylands: New Lessons in Poverty Graduation
Join BOMA and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk, and Resilience for an engaging conversation around recent research which affirms the impact of BOMA’s poverty graduation program — while also providing insight into ways to strengthen such programs for maximum impact. Dr. Michael Carter, Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets Risk and Resilience, will be joined in conversation by BOMA's Chief Scaling Officer Dr. Sam Owilly. This discussion will take place in-person at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. from 8:30 – 11 a.m. on April 21, 2022. A…
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National Air Disaster Foundation (NADF) Press Conference
PRESS CONFERENCE Hosted by the National Air Disaster Foundation (NADF) Family members and special guests will remember and provide information about the three passenger aviation disasters that were brought down by the Russians that represent 663 passengers from 23 countries. “Smolensk”, April 10, 2010, from Warsaw, Poland to Smolensk Russia. Poland “Air Force One” to honor the 12th memorial this year and provide updated information. MH17, Malaysia Airlines, July 17, 2014, and KL007, Korean Airlines form NY August 31, 1983. The National Air Disaster Foundation (NADA/F) was founded in 1995…
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"La Frontera" with Pati Jinich
On May 9th, 2022 at 6:30pm Club members are in for a real treat. Pati Jinich, the James Beard Award-winning creator of “Pati’s Mexican Table” on PBS will visit the Club to talk about her new project “La Frontera” which looks at the culture and cuisine of the U.S.-Mexican border region from both sides. “This project allowed me to get back to my roots,” said Jinich, who trained in International Relations at Georgetown University. “While food and teaching others to make food will always be my passion, I also find what is happening on the border between Mexico and the U.S. to be so compelling and…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Eric Holder and Sam Koppelman, "Our Unfinished March"
Former Attorney General Eric Holder and New York Times bestselling author Sam Koppelman will discuss their new book, “Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote,” at a Headliners Book Event on May 12 at 2 p.m. In the book, Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and Koppelman describe three dramatic fights for the right to vote, first by white men, then by white women, and finally by African Americans, and the ways the right to vote has lost ground since. The book ends with a plan for reversing voter suppression, and transforming…
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General Membership Meeting
The National Press Club will hold a general membership meeting for all Club members at noon Friday, May 20, in the Fourth Estate. Members will receive membership updates and Club leadership will speak on other matters. Please review the minutes from our January 14 meeting and send your approval or edits to Secretary Mike Balsamo at [email protected]. A lunch buffet will be provided. If you can't attend the meeting in person, a live webcast will be available below with login. You must be a NPC member to attend and registration is required.
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