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Pyongyang is responding to Trump’s improvised threat of “fire and fury” by drawing up plans to launch four missiles into waters near the U.S. territory of Guam within days, according to North Korea’s official news agency. Ummm … when is it time to panic? Reports say WH aides were caught off guard by the president’s rhetoric, which deviates from the usual tradition of carefully calibrated warnings. As a result, the president has taken a vow of silence on Twitter so he can get up to speed on global diplomacy ASAP and start streamlining his communications with his team restoring credibility to the White House. HA! Just kidding. You guys know better than that. This morning, those Twitter fingers were hard at work hurling insults. This morning’s target? Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). “Can you believe that Mitch McConnell, who has screamed Repeal & Replace for 7 years, couldn't get it done. Must Repeal & Replace ObamaCare!,”the president tweeted. That was followed up by a retweet of an unreputable poll that says Trump is a better president than Obama. 45 should go on tour with Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock. He is pure comedy. But … seriously. There are some protocols before this guy can just hit that red button right? Right?? Oh, and how about the F.B.I. searched the home of Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, for tax documents and foreign banking records last month? Special Counsel Robert Mueller is pressing forward and this definitely sends a message that he will not be distracted by cyberbullies. It’s a beautiful day in the nation’s capital. We’re kicking off Thursday with this:
- Meet the Black general on the front lines of North Korea.
- Obama and Clinton alumni head to the Harvard Kennedy School.
- Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) is the @nti-Trump on Twitter.
- Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) calls out Trump on deafening silence over mosque bombing.
- It's Thursday! See who we're throwing it back to in #TBT below.
- HUD Sec Dr. Ben Carson pledges to help displaced residents in Illinois town.
- Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) has a plan to expand the social safety net.
- A look at CA Congressman Jimmy Gómez’s first month in Congress.
- FLOTUS44 alumna running for MD governor.
- UFCW names Legislative Director.
- Bipartisan HBCU Caucus wants to work with CEO Action.
- Texas lawsuit over Austin “sanctuary city” thrown out -- for now.
- Senator Bob Menéndez (D-NJ) fraud and bribery trial set to begin September 6th.
- Office of Congressional Ethics releases reports in Conyers and Lewis probes.
- Trump supporters Diamond and Silk paid to go to the sunken place.
- JPMorgan Chase CEO says they’ve done well on Black diversity. The receipts say nope.
- Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has a new president -- will diversity remain a priority?
- Seriously -- can the Obama daughters live? Check out the article below in blogs.
- Netroots Nation and NABJ kick off today. There’s also rooftop pool party tonight in the nation’s capital. But you’ve got to be on the list to attend. See all of this below in FOMO.
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|  | Rachel Graham, president of the New Orleans Association of Black Journalists, greets 2017 NABJ Journalist of the Year April Ryan at the kick off of the 2017 NABJ Conference on Wednesday. | |  | Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) visiting the Basin and Range National Monument, one of the monuments under review by the Department of the Interior. | |
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The Man on the Front Lines of North Korea
In April 2016, Army Gen. Vincent K. Brooks took command of U.S. Forces Korea, Combined Forces Command, and United Nations Command. He recently warned North Korea that the only thing stopping the U.S. from going to war is “self-restraint.” In response to North Korea’s most recent provocation, Gen. Brooks expressed confidence in the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) recently deployed to the Korean Peninsula. He is the man standing between the United States and North Korea. Brooks achieved the top-ranking position for a cadet while at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In his senior year, he was selected to serve as the Cadet Brigade Commander of the U.S. Corps of Cadets -- the highest military leadership position a cadet can hold at West Point and was the first Black person to be selected for that position. He earned a Master of Military Art and Science from the School of Advanced Military Studies at Army Command and General Staff College and received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the New England School of Law in Boston. He also served as a National Security Fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. More about him here.
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|  | CA congressional candidate Sam Jammal with his mother and nephew at the La Habra Corn Festival on Saturday. | |  | Former CA Congressman and ex Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta last week at an APIAVote event. | |
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Bipartisan HBCU Caucus Commends CEO Action and Urges Increased Partnerships with HBCUs
The bipartisan HBCU Caucus -- led by co-chairs Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-NC) and Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL) -- sent a letter to Tim Ryan, PricewaterhouseCooper's U.S. Chairman and Chair of the steering committee for CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion (CEO Action), offering the Caucus’ assistance in furthering their mission by promoting partnerships between member corporations and HBCUs. The letter also commended the group’s -- now numbering 250 CEOs and growing -- commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion in the private sector. “It’s a proven fact, companies with greater diversity out perform their less diverse counterparts,” said Adams. “CEO Action’s commitment to diversity is good for their bottom line and good for our workforce. I commend Tim Ryan and the other CEOs who have pledged their support for this cause and I look forward to assisting their efforts to grow a pipeline of diverse employees to the business community through increased partnerships with HBCUs.” See their letter here.
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Ellison Calls Out Trump on Minnesota Bombing Silence
DNC Deputy Chair Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) on Wednesday noted Donald Trump’s silence on last weekend’s bombing of a Minnesota mosque as a terrorist attack. "The President's failure to condemn the terrorist attack on the Bloomington Islamic Center is an outrage. It suggests that his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, including the right to equal protection under the law, only extends to people who meet certain racial and religious criteria," Ellison said. The explosion at Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington happened early Saturday just before morning prayers and caused extensive damages to the imam's office but did not injure anyone. The FBI is investigating. The mosque primarily serves Somalis in the Minneapolis area. Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community outside of East Africa, with an estimated 57,000 residents, according to the most recent Census estimates. More here.
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|  | Van Jones on Tuesday visiting Chicago's South Side while on his We Rise Tour. | |  | Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) meeting with representatives from California Latinas for Reproductive Rights. | |
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Michelle Obama Alumna Running for MD Governor
A former policy director for Michelle Obama is throwing her hat into the ring for governor of Maryland. Krishanti Vignarajah said in a statement, “I am running for Governor because I am worried my daughter will not have the same opportunities my parents gave me when they brought our family here when I was a baby girl. I hope Marylanders will agree the best man for the job is a woman.” Vignarajah, 37, said that if she is elected she would focus her administration on several key issues, including the environment, increasing wages, improving schools, and investing in infrastructure. She is the first woman of color to officially join the race. Others vying for the state’s top spot include Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker; Alec Ross, a tech entrepreneur and Obama State Department alum; Maryland state Sen. Richard Madaleno; attorney James Shea; and Ben Jealous, a former NAACP president. Maya Rockeymoore, the wife of Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), has also expressed interest in running. More here.
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Former NFL Player and Obama Appointee Running for Congress
Here’s your #ThrowbackThursday story today. We first told you about former NFL player and civil rights attorney Colin Allred in April when he launched a campaign to unseat Congressman Pete Sessions (D-TX). Allred served as Special Assistant at HUD under President Barack Obama and Secretary Julián Castro. He was a Tennessee Titan before opting for a career in law. He said that he was inspired to challenge Sessions by the "grassroots energy" displayed after the 2016 election of Donald Trump. “I feel like it’s time for a new generation of leadership to come forward that doesn’t necessarily have some of the issues and [isn’t] tied down with some of the scar tissue of the partisan battles that have been going on for the last 30 years in Congress or in our statehouses,” Allred said in a profile piece in Splinter. Check it out here.
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|  | Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) attending the swearing in ceremony on Monday for new South Carolina Highway Patrolmen. | |  | LULAC CEO Brent Wilkes on Monday announcing a partnership with Cox Entreprises to bridge the digital divide in the Latino community with a new tech center in Atlanta. | |
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UFCW Names New Legislative Director
This week, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union announced the promotion of LaQuita Honeysucker to Legislative Director of their Legislative Affairs Department. LaQuita came to UFCW over 10 years ago directly from the office of Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA). She received her JD from the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville and she graduated from Hampton University in Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. Congrats, LaQuita! More about her here.
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Karen Finney and Yohannes Abraham Head to Harvard
On Wednesday, the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School announced Obama alumnus Yohannes Abraham and Clinton alumna Karen Finney among the selection of its 2017 Fall Fellows. Abraham is currently the Senior Advisor at the Obama Foundation. He previously served in the WH as Deputy Assistant to the President, Chief of Staff of the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, and Senior Advisor to the National Economic Council. He will guide students through discussions on how WH staff develop and advocate for policy priorities, advance nominations, and manage crises. Finney, a veteran of four presidential campaigns, is a political consultant and commentator, and was a senior advisor and spokesperson for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. She will help students examine how current social, political, and cultural disruption are catalyzing diverse responses and sparking change. They will join Dan Balz, former Congressman Jason Chaffetz, Sally Jewell, and Mark Strand. More here.
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Pioneer Director Joins Spelman College
Pioneer director Julie Dash is set to join Spelman College as a Distinguished Professor in the Arts this fall, where she will certainly leave a mark on the next generation of future filmmakers, artists, and creators. Dash made history as the first Black female director to secure a wide theatrical release in 1991 with masterpiece film Daughters of the Dust (currently streaming on Netflix), paving the way for an entire generation of filmmakers who are pushing forward towards their artistic pursuits. Dash was recently hand picked by Ava DuVernay (13th, Selma) to join the all-female directorial team of OWN's Queen Sugar. More here.
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|  | MSNBC's Richard Liu last week speaking at a forum in Princeton, NJ on Native American education. | |  | NM congressional candidate Deb Haaland out on the campaign trail going door-to-door. | |
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Jamie Dimon Touts Black Diversity While the Numbers Tell Another Story
On Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said on CNBC that the company has “done as well as almost any corporation out there” when it comes to Black diversity. Ha! That’s not what the firm’s own numbers show. Bloomberg News reports that the percentages of Black employees and executives fell over the past five years at JPMorgan. Black diversity is going backward at several of the biggest U.S. banks, even as it’s grown across corporate America. Inside Dimon’s firm, Black employees dropped last year to 13.7% of the U.S. workforce, the lowest at the bank in at least a decade, and below the 2015 national figure. Dimon said his firm still has work to do. “The reason it’s different is because it’s a different history, a different background. A lot of African Americans didn’t grow up in the same neighborhoods as white people,” he said. “Whites are maybe less comfortable with them.” More here.
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Ro Khanna’s Plan to Double the EITC
Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) has an ambitious plan to strengthen America’s social safety net by massively expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a refundable tax credit tied to earnings. Khanna’s proposal would increase EITC expenditure by roughly $1.4 trillion over ten years, making it more than twenty times larger than the expansions supported by former President Obama and House Speaker Paul Ryan (WI). The plan, which would double the maximum benefit for workers with children and make it six times higher for childless workers, is meant to compensate for the wage stagnation that has taken place since 1979. It gives “a 20 percent raise to the bottom 20 percent of households in the income distribution,” Khanna explained. More here.
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|  | Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) on Tuesday meeting with HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson to discuss the plight of displaced residents in Cairo, IL. | |  | Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA) at the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity's 2017 Youth Leadership Conference in Cincinnati last week. | |
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Ethics Office Reviewing John Lewis’ Office Over CoS Role
Roll Call reports that a probe into whether a longtime aide for Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) was inappropriately paid as his campaign treasurer while also serving as Chief of Staff has been taken up by the House Ethics Committee. The Office of Congressional Ethics found that Michael Collins served as campaign treasurer for Lewis’ 2016 re-election campaign from March 2015 to January 2017, a role that involved “fiduciary duties” prohibited by House rules, according to the independent agency. A letter from Collins’ lawyer called the OCE’s findings “baseless” and said they mischaracterize his role in the campaign. “Mr. Collins served as a voluntary treasurer, as have all previous treasurers for the Campaign Committee,” the letter stated. His lawyer also said Collins had repaid a $295 overpayment he received that was more than he was allowed in outside salary, blaming it on a “minor arithmetic error.” More here.
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Menéndez Trial Set for September as Dismissal Appeal Delayed
U.S. District Judge William Walls in Newark, NJ has delayed his decision on ruling whether federal corruption charges against Senator Bob Menéndez (D-NJ) should be dismissed, letting his September 6th trial proceed. Walls said he would rule on the dismissal after prosecutors present their case. Menéndez has argued that the Supreme Court's decision to overturn former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's conviction -- which narrowed the definition of "official acts" -- applies to his case and that charges should be dismissed. Reuters has more here.
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Ethics Office Report Finds Conyers Broke Rules with Former CoS
According to the Office of Congressional Ethics, the former Chief of Staff for Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) received compensation between April and August 2016 despite statements from other staff members that she no longer worked in the office at the time. The independent ethics monitor says if this is the case, Conyers violated House rules by authorizing pay for Cynthia Martin. WaPo reports that in March 2016, Martin pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving stolen property after $16,500 was mistakenly transferred to her bank account and she initially refused to return the funds. Conyers, 88, officially terminated her employment in October 2016. Conyers has denied any wrongdoing, claiming through a lawyer that the compensation provided to Martin constituted severance and accrued annual leave. “Today’s release does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred,” Conyers spokeswoman Shadawn Reddick-Smith said in a statement. She added the office has “worked diligently at all times to comply with the rules.” More here.
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Congresswoman Val Demmings (D-FL) in a very important meeting with Pepper. | |  |
DNC Chair Tom Pérez with CO Gov. John Hickenlooper at a healthcare rally in Denver on Tuesday. | |
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Ben Carson Pledges to Help Residents HUD Is Displacing
On Tuesday, HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson paid a visit to two derelict public housing projects in the small, southern Illinois river town of Cairo. Earlier this year, HUD announced it would close rather than repair the Elmwood and McBride housing projects. The closure of the projects, where many of the remaining residents of Cairo live, has drawn national attention. The predominantly African American, rural town used to be a thriving port at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. But decades of corruption, economic upheaval, and racial tension led it to become one of the fastest depopulating communities in the nation. NPR reports that at Tuesday’s forum, residents of the projects pleaded for help from the secretary. Carson said he was in town to offer assurances that HUD will help everyone who wants to stay in Cairo to be able to do so. The agency has not given families a hard move-out date. But HUD has said it is no longer in the home construction business. More here.
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Lieu Keeps Coming for Trump Where It Hurts: Twitter
If you’re not following Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) on Twitter, perhaps you will after this Yahoo News profile of the congressman and his social media account. Calling him the @nti-Trump, the piece highlights Lieu’s e-crusade to respond to the president’s tweets with his own brand of wit, straight shooting, and facts. Careful to distinguish between his staff-run professional account (@reptedlieu) and his personal account (@tedlieu), Lieu says that he uses his personal account to offer his “thoughts and views on what’s happening right now in America — and every now and then, Game of Thrones.” The congressman muses, “I never in my dreams thought I would ever call the president of the United States ‘dumb as a rock’ (a phrase he has now used 13 times) ... Ultimately I would rather not be doing this. I do not want to be in this position where I am resisting and ridiculing the president of the United States. I want to be able to be proud of our president.” Yahoo News has some of his choice tweets and more on the congressman’s motivations here.
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Diamond and Silk Paid by Trump
Trump-supporting YouTube stars Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson -- better known as “Diamond” and “Silk,” respectively -- were invited to the Commerce Department this week. Allegedly, the duo was there to discuss ways in which they could expand their business. Business?? Okay. The pair runs a political blog aimed at promoting Trump and denigrating his critics. The Commerce Department even tweeted out a photo of the pair, though they deleted it hours later. Monday’s meeting was arranged by Chris García, former Trump campaign advisor and current acting head of the Minority Business Development Agency. The meeting would seem perfectly innocent (and still bizarre), but according to reports, Diamond and Silk were paid Trump campaign consultants. The Trump campaign denied paying Diamond and Silk for their regular on-stage appearances at political rallies. But an amendment to the campaign’s 2016 FEC report reveals they were, in fact, cut a check shortly after the election. How much were they compensated for traveling all the way to their sunken place? A meager $1,274.94. Good luck buying diamond or silk with those few coins, ladies. The Beat DC offers this advice: #GetOut. More on this here.
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) with actors Jussie Smollet and Laz Alonzo after being honored on Sunday at BET's Black Girls Rock Awards. | |  |
MSNBC's Craig Melvin vacationing with his family in Hilton Head, SC on Monday. | |
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LA City Council Wants to Know Which Companies Will Profit From Proposed Border Wall
The LA Times reports that at a Tuesday meeting, the LA City Council voted to draft a law that would require companies seeking or doing business with the city to disclose whether they have contracts to help design, build or provide supplies for “any proposed border wall between Mexico and the United States of America.” Councilman Gil Cedillo (pictured) said, “We want to know if there are people who do business with the city of Los Angeles ... who wish to profit from building a wall that would divide us from our nearest and dearest neighbor Mexico.” Cedillo, who proposed the law, told reporters that the wall was “repugnant,” denouncing it as a racist and xenophobic plan that defied the values of LA. “Immigrants are the foundation, here in Los Angeles, of our economy. They are tightly woven into the social fabric of this city. And you cannot separate them or divide their families here in this city without disrupting the character of this city,” Cedillo said. More here.
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Texas Lawsuit Against Austin Over “Sanctuary Cities” Ban Thrown Out -- for Now
On Wednesday, federal judge Sam Sparks said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had no standing to sue the city of Austin over violating a law that hasn’t actually gone into effect yet. So, he threw out Paxton’s lawsuit against Austin and Travis County that sought to have Texas’ Senate Bill 4 (SB4), the controversial “sanctuary cities” ban, declared constitutional. “Because SB 4 does not take effect until September 1, 2017, it is impossible for Defendants to take any action that would violate the not-yet-effective law. The mere fact that a municipal policy was instituted before a law was signed, or that it remains in place prior to the law taking effect, does not equate to a violation of the law,” Sparks’ ruling said. One would hope that an attorney general would know that. This ruling now leaves the lawsuit pending in a federal court in San Antonio as the definitive suit against SB4. More here.
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|  | Intel's Norberto Salinas, NAB's Grisella Martínez, UFCW's LaQuita Honeysucker, and Javier Martínez of DaVita Healthcare Partners, at Dirty Martini in DC on Tuesday evening. | |  |
Congressman Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) last week with Key West Mayor Craig Cates. | |
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State Dept Expels Two Cuban Diplomats After Bizarre Incidents in Havana
The State Department has expelled two diplomats from the Cuban Embassy in DC after a series of incidents in Cuba that left U.S. officials there with physical symptoms that one official said includes potentially permanent hearing loss. Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the two Cuban diplomats were asked to leave the U.S. back in late May after American diplomats in Cuba complained of a variety of physical ailments. Nauert said the first incident was reported last year and have continued, but wouldn’t say what they were, only that they were not life-threatening. One person familiar with the investigation told the WaPo that investigators are looking into whether members of the Cuban government placed sonic devices that produce non-audible sound inside or outside the residences of five U.S. embassy staffers, intending to deafen them. Those staffers arrived in Havana in the summer of 2016 and began to experience symptoms of hearing loss, and an investigation determined they were at risk and allowed to leave the island. No children were affected but some adults reportedly suffered permanent hearing loss. The Cuban government has denied any involvement. More here.
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Jimmy Gómez Comes to Washington
Congressman Jimmy Gómez (D-CA), representing one of the most diverse districts in the country, is slowly redecorating that large office he inherited from the far more senior Xavier Becerra, who resigned after two decades in office to become California's attorney general. The LA Times reports that Gómez is shipping photos from LA that he’s taken of landmarks, and plans to hang a Dodgers logo in his office as well. He filed his first piece of legislation at the end of July. It would allow intelligence to be collected about foreign efforts to influence the president, his family or associates through their financial interests. The LA Times takes a look at his first month in Congress. Check it out here.
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Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY) on Tuesday announcing new school safety measures in NYC. | |  |
Commentator Melissa Harris-Perry on Monday wearing her emotions on her t-shirt. | |
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Michael Che and Colin Jost Return for Weekend Update
For those of you going through SNL withdrawal, fear not. The half-hour Weekend Update: Summer Edition returns tonight at 9P and will air live at the same time for the next four Thursdays. And it’s a good thing they’re live. Given the breaking news cycle we live in, the show will surely need to make some last-minute additions. Last season was the show’s most-watched in 24 years, with 26% more viewers than the previous year. The WaPo profiles hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost. Check it out here.
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Academy Elects New President -- Will He Keep Up Diversity Efforts
On Tuesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board of governors elected 74-year-old cinematographer John Bailey as their the 36th president, succeeding Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the third woman and first person of color to be elected president of AMPAS. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that electing an older white man was “seen by some as a victory for the more conservative wing of the 54-person board, which feels that the board has become too activist in recent years.” Under Isaacs, the Academy began to truly address its lack of diversity of all kinds. This year, the group invited a record 774 new members to join, with a focus on increasing representation. Bailey’s election might indicate that Hollywood is backing away from some of the progressive momentum it has shown in recent years. More here.
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We wonder if Lin-Manuel Miranda knew upon graduation that he would go on to be one of the Founding Fathers of America. Well...at least he would play one on Broadway. | |  |
Who is that adorable little face who was clearly born to protest? That's none other than CNN's Angela Rye. Apparently, she has always been "on one." | |
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Today, 5P: Reception for Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Hosted by Ambassador Andrew Young, Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston, and Ebenezer Baptist Church Senior Pastor Dr. Rev. Raphael G. Warnock. Zucot Gallery, 330 Chapel Street, S.W., Atlanta. To RSVP, call 443.525.8262.
Today, 7P: Jotaka Eaddy, Symone Sanders, Dr. Ikenna Myers, Waikinya Clanton, Nicholas Wiggins, and Moyer McCoyIn host a pool party. Penthouse Pool Club. 1612 U Street, N.W. WDC. Invite only. Today - August 13th: The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) holds its annual convention and career fair in New Orleans. Click here for more information and to register. Today - August 13th: The Congressional Black Caucus Political Education & Leadership Institute sponsors the 2017 Mississippi Policy Conference in Tunica, MS. Click here for more information and to register.
Today - August 13th: Netroots Nation 2017 kicks off today in Atlanta. Hyatt Regency, 265 Peachtree Street, N.E. Click here for more information and to register. Monday, August 14th, 4P: The Center for American Progress sponsors a panel discussion, The Power of Black Media and Journalists During the Trump Administration. Click here to RSVP. Wednesday, August 16th - 17th: The annual U.S.-Mexico Border Summit. El Paso, TX & Cuidad Juárez, Chihuahua. Featured guests include keynote speaker Ana Navarro, Republican strategist and CNN analyst. Click here for more information and to register. Wednesday, August 16th - 20th: The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance holds its 14th biennial convention in Anaheim, CA. Click here for more information. Friday, August 18th: The deadline to apply for the Poynter Institute and the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) 2017 Leadership Academy for Diversity in Digital Media, to be held Dec. 3rd - 8th in St. Petersburg, FL. The tuition-free program trains journalists of color to work in digital media. Click here for more information and to apply.
Friday, August 18th, 11A: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights hosts A Historical Perspective on 52 Years of the Voting Rights Act. USCCR headquarters, National Place Building, 1331 Pennsylvania Av. NW, Suite 1150. RSVP via email at: publicaffairs@usccr.gov
Click here to see the event livestreamed. There will also be a call-in line for individuals who wish to listen to the presentations: (888) 329-8893; conference ID 8426586. Friday, August 18th - 20th: A weekend on Martha's Vineyard with Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and special guests Congressmen James Clyburn (D-SC), Cedric Richmond (D-LA), and Richard Neal (D-MA), and Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE). For more information and to RSVP, contact Mariko Bennett: mariko@cocobproductions.com or call 301.741.3443. Thursday, August 25th, 8P: The film Hidden Figures will be shown as the final movie of the season at the MLK Memorial. Free. Sponsored by The Memorial Foundation and MPAA. 1964 Independence Avenue, S.W. For more information, click here.
Monday, August 28th, 9A: The Collective hosts the 2017 Black Power Summit to discuss possibilities, challenges, and plans to capitalize on historic political opportunities and also economic and civil rights challenges the Black community will likely face in the 2018 and 2020 political cycles. For more information, contact Quentin James at: quentin@collectivepac.org Tuesday, August 29th, 7P: The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) hosts an advanced screening of the movie Dolores, focusing on the life and work of civil rights icon Dolores Huerta. A moderated conversation with Dolores Huerta and filmmaker Peter Bratt will follow the screening. Free but registration is required. Click here for more information and to sign up. Thursday, August 31st: The deadline for scholarship applications of the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) for high school students entering college, or current college and graduate students. The scholarships range from $500 to $2,000 and are a key component of NAJA’s committed to increasing the representation of Native journalists in mainstream media. Open to Native American students pursuing journalism degrees at institutions of higher learning. Click here for more information and to apply.
Thursday, September 7th - 9th: The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), the Native American Journalists Association, and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) sponsor the Excellence in Journalism 2017 conference in Anaheim, CA. Click here for more details and to register. Sunday, September 10th: Former First Lady Michelle Obama speaks at the Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park. MN about her years in the White House. Click here for more information and to purchase tickets. Monday, September 11th - 13th: The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute annual Hispanic Heritage Month conference and awards gala. Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center,1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Click here for more information. Friday, September 15th, 9A: Dialogue on Diversity holds its 2017 Entrepreneurship and Information Technology Conference. AT&T Forum, 601 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Click here for more information and to register. Saturday, September 30th, 8P: Join Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY) for Bruno Mars' 24K Magic Tour. The Verizon Center, 601 F Street, N.W. For more information or to RSVP, contact Sierra Kelley-Chung or Randy Broz at: 202.403.0606 or email: Sierra@ABConsultingDC.com Wednesday, November 29th, 8P: Join Congressman André Carson (D-IN) for JAY-Z's 4:44 Tour. The Verizon Center, 601 F Street, N.W. For more information or to RSVP, contact Courtney Hodges or Randy Broz at: 202.403.0606 or email: Courtney@ABConsultingDC.com
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