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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Farida Shaheed: end-of-visit press conference
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Farida Shaheed: end-of-visit press conference UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education Farida Shaheed is visiting the United States from 29 April to 10 May 2024 to assess strengths and challenges in the implementation of the right to education. Shaheed is meeting with federal and state officials, representatives of civil society, teachers’ unions, students’ associations, academics and other stakeholders in Washington D.C., Indiana and Colorado. The Special Rapporteur is seeking to understand the way the federal government and…
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Celebration of Life for Will Lester
The National Press Club and The Associated Press invite you to join in celebrating the life of our beloved friend and colleague Will Lester at a memorial event being held at 6 p.m., Wednesday May 15 in the Conference Rooms. The event is open to members and friends of Lester, a longtime Press Club member who served as chair of the Awards Team for many years. Lester died unexpectedly in February. He joined the Club 1998 and won the Club’s highest volunteer honor, the Berny Krug Award, in 2013 for his work as chair of the Awards Team. Lester spent nearly 40 years at The Associated Press, where…
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Imagining Combat Without Military Medicine: What Would That Look Like?
Imagining Combat Without Military Medicine: What Would That Look Like? The Friends of the Uniformed Services University (Friends of USU) will host a lunch and panel discussion on Wednesday, May 22, 12:00-2:30 p.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, DC., to discuss the history, present state, and future of military medicine, focusing on the importance of USU as the integral center of learning for those who are educated and trained to care for those who go into harm’s way. The Defense Health Agency’s recent stabilization efforts—its pivot from a previous strategy to gut the capacity of…
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Embracing Your Past To Empower Your Future
National Press Club member Lori Ann LaRocco of CNBC and co-author, Abby Wallace, her daughter and Advanced Placement History Student, will sit down in a fireside chat with Nora Blake Smith, features and entertainment on-air journalist, for Good Day DC, and Fox 5 DC's "Celebrity Dish" on Good Day, to discuss their book “Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future" at a book event and Q&A in the Zenger Room on Tuesday, June 11 from noon to 1pm Eastern. In Embracing Your Past to Empower Your Future, descendants of four prominent Black families whose ancestors were enslaved tell readers what…
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General Membership Meeting
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The National Press Club will hold a general membership meeting for all Club members on Friday, May 31 at 5 p.m. in the Conference Rooms. There will not be a livestream, so please plan accordingly to attend in-person. Each attendee will be provided a complimentary drink ticket to be enjoyed with tasty hors d'oeuvres in the Truman Lounge immediately following the meeting. You must be a NPC member to attend and registration is required.
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25th National Juneteenth Prayer Breakfast
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NPC Headliners: Rahul Gandhi
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Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition in India's parliament, will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 2 p.m. His remarks will focus on Indian democracy, freedom of speech, and sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Gandhi heads INDIA, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, a coalition of opposition parties that holds 234 seats in the Indian parliament. The group is about 30 short of a majority. Gandhi, a member of the Indian National Congress Party, was elected in June to the Indian parliament from the Rae Bareli district in…
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Equipping The Persecuted: Genocide in Nigeria
“Equipping The Persecuted” to hold press conference, documentary premiere at National Press Club to expose Nigerian government complicity in killing of Christians Washington, D.C. — On Thursday July 24, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. EST, Equipping The Persecuted will hold an in-person press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to present critical findings surrounding the Father’s Day Yelewata Massacre, where terrorists murdered over 270 Christians while Nigerian security forces stood by and failed to intervene. The press conference will feature the exclusive screening of a short…
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General Membership Meeting
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The National Press Club will hold a general membership meeting for all Club members on Friday, October 18 at 5:30 p.m. in the Conference Rooms. There will not be a livestream, so please plan accordingly to attend in-person. Each attendee will be provided a complimentary drink ticket to be enjoyed with tasty hors d'oeuvres in the Truman Lounge immediately following the meeting. You must be a NPC member to attend and registration is required.
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NPC Headliners Book Event: “Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation,” Sune Engel Rasmussen
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Wall Street Journal correspondent Sune Engel Rasmussen, who spent a decade reporting from Afghanistan, will discuss his new book “Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation” at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 6 p.m. Rasmussen, who began reporting from Afghanistan in 2014, tells the story of post 9-11 Afghanistan through the eyes of the people who lived it, among them: Zahra, a woman who returns to Afghanistan after living with her family in Iran with hope for a new future for her country; Omari, a Taliban fighter from a Pashtun…
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