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NPC Luncheon: Rep. Elijah Cummings
Type: Media
Photos: Andrew Yang NPC Newsmaker Event
Democratic presidential candidate, author and entrepreneur Andrew Yang spoke at a National Press Club Newsmaker event on October 21, 2019. Yang talked about his “Humanity First” platform, including his flagship proposal, the Freedom Dividend, human-centered capitalism, and the mounting crisis of the automation of labor.
Type: Media
Photos: Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams TD, Former Sinn Féin President and an architect of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement (GFA), discussed the threat he believes Brexit poses to Ireland’s peace, progress and prosperity, and addressed increasing calls for an Irish Unity referendum at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Oct. 16, 2019.
Type: Media
Photos: Fired for Being Gay
Gerald Lynn Bostock, the plaintiff named in the case of BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, was fired from his job as a county child welfare services coordinator when his employer learned he joined a gay recreational softball league. Bostock and his attorneys Brian J. Sutherland and Thomas J. Mew, IV discussed their case at a National Press Club Newsmaker event immediately following oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Type: Media
Photos: Journalism Under Threat in Nicaragua
On September 25, 2019, the NPC’s International Correspondents Committee (ICC) and Press Freedom Team convened an event on media suppression in Nicaragua. Fresh from testifying at the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), a delegation of four Nicaraguan journalists - three of whom remain in exile - discussed the country’s recent descent into violence and repression.
Type: Media
Photos: Building Relationships with U.S. Latinx Thought Leaders
Panelists offered insights into the U.S. Latinx market providing a larger vision to spark greater understanding of the extraordinary socio-demographic and economic diversity of U.S. Latinxs.
Type: Media
Photos: 2019 NPC Spelling Bee
Relationships between politicians and the media who cover them have been tested throughout history, but on September 17, 2019 in the National Press Club’s historic ballroom, fun and friendly competition prevailed as lawmakers and reporters competed in the uproariously entertaining Press vs. Politicians Spelling Bee.
Type: Media
Photos: UMWA President Cecil Roberts
The International President of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) Cecil Roberts discussed the future of the coal industry and what effect he believes proposed climate change legislation and initiatives will have on the jobs outlook for coal producing regions at a National Press Club Newsmaker at on September 4, 2019.
Type: Media
Photos: 2019 NPC Children's Holiday Party
Type: Media
Photos: Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian and the first African American to hold the office in its nearly 175-year history, discussed his vision for the institution and signed copies of his book, “A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama and Trump,” at a National Press Club Headliners event on December 9, 2019.
Type: Media