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NPC Luncheon with Rev. John Richard Bryant, Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
The Right Rev. John Richard Bryant, senior bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, will discuss the Charleston, S.C., church shootings at a National Press Club luncheon on Aug. 12.At a prayer vigil after the shootings, Bryant invoked the African-American legacy of resilience, saying the shooting suspect, Dylann Roof, had ‘picked the wrong place and the wrong crowd.’ He then railed against gun violence in American society.In addition to serving as senior bishop, Bryant is the presiding prelate of the AME church’s Fourth Episcopal District.Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., with…
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Jason Rezaian Case
One year ago, on July 22, 2014, Iranian Security Forces swarmed Jason Rezaian’s home with no warning and took him to prison where he was held without charges. For months he was interrogated and kept in solitary confinement with inadequate medical care and no access to a lawyer. Jason has been held in Iranian prison for nearly a year – three times longer than any other Western journalist. Jason was not allowed to select his own attorney or see his case file. His lawyer is forbidden to discuss the case and has only been allowed to meet briefly with Jason to review the case. The trial session…
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NPC Luncheon with Mitch Landrieu, Mayor of New Orleans
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and nearly wiped out New Orleans, Mayor Mitch Landrieu will report on New Orleans’ emergence as a model of urban renewal and economic recovery at a National Press Club luncheon on August 18. Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall on August 29, 2005, is the costliest disaster in United States history. When the levees failed, 80 percent of the city was flooded and hundreds of thousands of people lost their homes and more than 1,800 persons died. Today, New Orleans is one of the fastest growing major cities in the nation. “We are…
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NPC House Committee
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NPC Membership Committee
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NPC History & Heritage Committee
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NPC Luncheon with Martin O'Malley
Former two-term governor of Maryland and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley will deliver a policy speech at a National Press Club Speakers Luncheon on July 23. The event will follow an altered schedule, with lunch beginning at 11:00 a.m. and remarks at 11:30 a.m. Since announcing his candidacy in Baltimore’s Federal Hill Park on May 30, O’Malley has issued a jobs agenda focused on renewable energy, a higher education proposal for high-quality, debt-free college education for students attending in-state public colleges or universities, and earlier this month, an open letter…
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U.S.-South Korea Relations
While in Washington, DC for a security conference between U.S. and South Korean leaders, Ambassador Laney spoke about the current state of U.S.-South Korea relations. He emphasized the close ties between the two nations and responded to charges by many in the U.S. and South Korea that the Clinton administration has vacillated in its policy policy toward North Korea. After his remarks, he took questions from the audience of reporters.
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NPC Board of Governors
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NPC Professional Development Committee
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