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The National Press Club's Photography Team plans to hear from team member Nancy Shia about her acclaimed Out My Window photo collection, Thursday, July 15, at 11:30 a.m. in the Cosgrove Lounge. This will be the Photography Team's first in-person event since the pandemic was declared, with safety protocols in place for participants. The event is open to all Club members. Admission is free, but registration in advance is requested.
Nancy Shia is a D.C. community photographer and activist, and a longtime member of the Club and its Photography Committee/Team. The Out My Window collection chronicles her 40 years of living in D.C. at Ontario Road and Columbia Road NW, and the changes taking place in the Adams Morgan and surrounding neighborhoods over that time. The images document homelessness and gentrification in these communities, as well as the Mount Pleasant uprising in May 1991, and the early D.C. Latino Festivals that began as neighborhood celebrations. Out My Window is a project of the educational advocacy group…
Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a government that nonetheless treats them with suspicion and contempt. Welcome to the Perfect Police State. Using the haunting story of one young woman’s attempt to escape the…
Participants will receive a unique link to access the Zoom event in their confirmation after completing registration. Questions for Cain can be submitted in advance or during the live program to [email protected]. This event is hosted by the International Correspondents and Young Members teams.
Correspondent Geoffrey Cain prepares to discuss China's 'Perfect Police State,’ Friday, July 16 at Noon
Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning foreign correspondent and National Press Club member, plans to discuss his new book The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future at a virtual event on Friday, July 16 at noon. Register for the event and get a calendar reminder here.
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Join Books & Brunch for a lively discussion of 'The Warmth of Other Suns,' July 17
Books & Brunch plans to meet via Zoom at noon Saturday, July 17, to discuss The Warmth of Other Suns by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson. To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, please email Fay Ludicello at [email protected] by Thursday night. Those who RSVP should expect to receive the Zoom invitation at 9 a.m. on July 17. Books & Brunch is open to all members and their guests.
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Recent news brings back memories of National Press Club trip in 2000 to Cuba
News from Cuba brings to mind an amazing two-week reporting stint in Cuba put together by the National Press Club during the Elian Gonzalez affair 21 years ago. Students wave flags during propaganda rally in Havana. Photo by Ken Dalecki Frederica Dunn, a member of what was then the Club Travel Committee, did a great job arranging a trip that included interviews with top Cuban apparatchiks, meetings with diplomats and time for independent exploration in the midst of hoopla over Cuban demands for the return from Miami of Elian, a five-year-old Cuban rescued off the coast of Florida after…
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