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NPC Children's Book Rap: George Washington & The Magic Hat
Travel back in time to meet George Washington during a magical morning for the whole family at the National Press Club. On Saturday, Aug. 27 at 11 a.m., the NPC's Book and Author Committee will present a family-friendly Book Rap with Deborah Kalb, author of The President and Me: George Washington and The Magic Hat. The Book Rap is $5 for Press Club members, $10 for non-members. All children are free. This event is a fundraiser for the non-profit National Press Club Journalism Institute so no outside books or memorabilia are allowed. The book, targeted to youngsters seven and up, tells the…
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RFK: His Words for Our Times with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Rick Allen
NPC Pub Quiz
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Jean Case - "Be Fearless"
In her new book, “Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthroughs and Purpose,” Jean Case, Chairman of the National Geographic Society and CEO of the Case Foundation, draws from her own life’s journey and success stories of ordinary entrepreneurs to explain why - particularly in today’s crowded marketplace of ideas and information - it pays to be fearless. Case will share tips and inspiration at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Wednesday, February 27 at 6:30 p.m. This event will take place in the Club’s conference rooms and will feature a presentation by the author, an…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Andy Parker - "For Alison"
On August 26, 2015 reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward of CBS affiliate WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia were shot and killed while conducting a live television interview for WDBJ’s morning news program, Mornin’. Later that same day Andy Parker, shattered and shaken by the sudden loss of his young daughter Alison, went on Fox News to deliver a solemn promise: to do “whatever it takes to end gun violence in America.” From that day forward, Mr. Parker has worked tirelessly alongside activists like Astronaut Mark Kelly and Michael Bloomberg as an outspoken advocate for national gun…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Dorothy Butler Gilliam - "Trailblazer"
Livestream will begin 1/24 at 6:30pm ET. New Date Legendary civil rights journalist and activist Dorothy Butler Gilliam will share her aptly titled new memoir, "Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, January 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s Zenger Room. Gilliam’s more than 60-year-career in journalism began in the segregated South where she made a name for herself reporting on the integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas for the Tri-State Defender. In 1961 she became the first…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: "After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings"
Award-winning journalist Thomas Kapsidelis and Virginia Tech massacre survivor Kristina Anderson will explore the experiences of survivors in the decade following the deadliest mass shooting on a college campus at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, April 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s conference rooms. The event marks the debut of After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings, a book by Kapsidelis that chronicles the aftermath of the April 16, 2007 rampage by a lone gunman that killed 32 Virginia Tech students and professors. Then the nation’s…
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NPC Press Freedom Team
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NPC History & Heritage Team
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NPC Travel Committee
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NPC History and Heritage Committee
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