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NPC Headliners: Brooke Shields, President of the Stage Actors' Union
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Brooke Shields, a model, an actor, a best-selling author, the CEO of a new company, and now labor leader, will speak at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon on Thursday, September 12 at 12:30 p.m. Shields will discuss the intersection of labor and support for the arts. This year has been a big year for Shields. She was elected president of the 51,000-member Actors’ Equity Association, the national union for actors on the live stage and stage managers, in May of this year. In June she launched a new company, Commence. She also starred in one of Netflix’s 10 most watched films of 2024, "…
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NPC Headliners: Charlie Baker
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NCAA President and former Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Breakfast on Thursday, July 24th. Charlie Baker became President of the NCAA in March 2023, bringing with him a unique blend of leadership experience from both the private and public sectors. As the former two-term Governor of Massachusetts, he earned a national reputation for bipartisan leadership, fiscal discipline, and pragmatic problem-solving. Before public office, he held executive roles in healthcare and business, where he focused on reform, innovation, and service delivery.…
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The French 75 Dinner with John Maxwell Hamilton
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The 100-year-old French 75 cocktail is equal parts loved and polarizing with favorite concoctions spanning the globe from Paris to New Orleans. The story behind the drink is equally mixed, with its roots in propaganda from World War I and competing versions of the mighty cocktail’s ongoing global evolution. Author, journalist and scholar John Maxwell Hamilton bravely stepped into the fray to tell the definitive story of the explosive cocktail in his delightful new book, "The French 75" from LSU Press. Join Hamilton for a lively, four-course Creole dinner accompanied by five different…
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NPC Headliners: "My Father's House," John Conyers III
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Author John Conyers III will discuss his new book My Father’s House at a Headliners Book Event on September 9 at 6 p.m. In his book, the son of longest-serving African American Congressman John Conyers Jr. shines a spotlight on his father and his political legacy, and reveals how, as his son, he eventually learned to leverage his own voice in a world that his father helped create. A political, historical, and family story, My Father’s House explores how John James Conyers, Jr., was at once a man of deep and abiding spiritual faith, human talents, and human weaknesses. As he places his father…
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NPC Headliners: "Death on the Island," Eliza Reid
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Best-selling author and former First Lady of Iceland Eliza Reid will discuss "Death on the Island," her debut mystery novel, at a Headliners Book Event on May 22 at 6 p.m. The tale takes readers on a haunting trip to Iceland's Westman Islands where, as a storm rages outside and glasses are raised in a toast, the deputy ambassador falls dead. Trapped by the weather, the remaining guests grow suspicious of one another as secrets are revealed, and the ambassador's wife begins to wonder whether they have all witnessed a murder. Reid, an acclaimed writer and co-founder of the Iceland Writers…
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NPC Headliners: Letter from George Mason
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On Tuesday, June 10 at 10 a.m., Gunston Hall’s Digital Fellow and Graduate Student Nick Gentry and Senior Curator and Head of Collections Kate Steir, Ph.D. will be at a National Press Club Headliners Coffee and Conversation to discuss an unpublished George Mason and George Washington letter discovered by Gentry. The letter, dated April 6, 1768, also features a reply in George Washington’s hand dated 1789. The text of this letter sheds unexpected light on the private dealings—and quiet tensions—between two pillars of the Revolutionary era: George Washington and George Mason. It adds an…
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NPC Headliners: Abbe Lowell & Mark Zaid
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The Espionage Act has long been used by the government to prosecute whistleblowers for disclosing information to the press. In April, Attorney General Pam Bondi released a memo changing long-standing policy that limits Justice Department attorneys’ pursuit of records or testimony from journalists, including in cases involving leaks of classified information. In recent months, the Espionage Act has drawn increased media attention, particularly in connection with the SignalGate messages. On July 1, lawyers Abbe Lowell and Mark Zaid will discuss the Espionage Act at 6 p.m. at a National Press…
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NPC Headliners: Mark Dimondstein, Donald Maston & Brian Renfroe
American Postal Workers Union President Mark Dimondstein, National Association of Letter Carriers President Brian Renfroe and National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association President Donald Maston will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Tuesday, March 25 at 10 a.m. This year, 2025, marks the 250th year of the public United States Postal Service, older than the country, mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, and since 1970 operated as an independent agency primarily funded through the sale of stamps and services. President Trump has suggested transferring the USPS to the U.S.…
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NPC Headliners Screening: "David Frost Vs" with Wilfred Frost
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Join us at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, April 10 for a screening of the Muhammad Ali episode of the new documentary series David Frost Vs followed by a discussion with Executive Producer of the series and Frost’s son, broadcaster Wilfred Frost, on his father’s career and interviews’ impact on journalism. The discussion will also feature clips from episodes on President Nixon, Jane Fonda, and Elton John. Drawing from an archive of over 10,000 era-defining interviews, many of which have been lost for a generation, David Frost Vs presents a fresh perspective on the battles of yesterday, which have…
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NPC Headliners: Anamaria Baralt & Robert Rand
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As the resentencing hearing for brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez approaches, journalist Robert Rand, whose book, "The Menendez Murders," revealed new evidence in the case, and Anamaria Baralt, the Menendez brothers' cousin who has advocated on their behalf, will discuss the prospects for the brothers' release at a Headliners Coffee and Conversation event on Thursday, Jan. 23 at 2 p.m. Lyle Menendez, turns 57 on Jan. 10, and Erik Menendez, turned 54 on Nov. 27, have been serving life sentences without parole since their conviction in 1996 for the 1989 murders of their parents, José and Kitty…
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