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Mayor Mitch Landrieu
Five Years after Katrina: New Orleans Mayor to Speak Aug. 19 Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and nearly sunk New Orleans, newly-elected New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu will report on the city's progress and potential at a National Press Club luncheon on Aug. 19. Landrieu, two-time lieutenant governor of Louisiana, brother of Sen. Mary Landrieu, and son of former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, won the mayor's office in a landslide election in February. The hurricane that flooded New Orleans in 2005 drove many residents and businesses from the city. Now the city…
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INDOOR Screen on the Green : EASY RIDER
NPC EVENTS & Young Members Committees present INDOOR Screen on the Green EASY RIDEREasy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the American Southwest and South with the aim of achieving freedom. August 12 @ 7PM National Press Club Ballroom529 14th St. NW, 13th FloorWashington, DC 20045 Bring blankets and friends. A cash bar will be available and popcorn will be served.For more information: Abeer Abdalla —…
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Transgender Law Center
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Riding or Lashing the Waves: Regulating Media for Diversity in a Time of Uncertainty
Exclusive Briefing: New Report on Progress for Children since 2000 Worldwide, and the Innovative Aid that Helped Achieve it
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State of Black America
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Don’t Help the Persecutors
NPC Headliners Luncheon: Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
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Dionne Warwick at "What the World Needs Now" Screening & Dinner
Please join us for a special, private screening of the PBS Television Special: “What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David” scheduled for the evening of Monday, May 20th, 2019. There will be a “Conversation with Special Guests” immediately following the screening, hosted by NPC President, Alison Fitzgerald. Special in-person guests will include the fabulous Dionne Warwick and noted songwriter, Valerie Simpson (“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”), both of whom are featured in the PBS TV show. Don’t miss this trip down memory lane as these two ladies share their very personal stories about one…
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Freedom to Teach
2019 NPC Journalism Institute Golf Invitational Tournament
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Event Horizon Telescope Project
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The Kalb Report - A Conversation with Astronaut Michael Collins
Livestream will begin 4/15 at 7:00pm ET. In 1865, Jules Verne wrote the science fiction novel “From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around it.” Nearly 105 years later, Michael Collins “lived” what Jules Verne could only imagine. In July of 1969, against the backdrop of the raging war in Vietnam and the social upheaval in American society, the eyes of the world turned skyward as three American astronauts roared their way toward history. In what has been described as the greatest technological achievement of the 20th century, Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins…
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