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Heads Up: If someone gets fired from the White House between the time we hit send and the time you read this mailing, check our Twitter and Facebook page for the latest. We also post new content there so check us out. Where to begin today? There’s a lot happening. We’ll try and give you as much as possible. John Kelly came in the WH and quickly showed Mooch the door. And Sean Spicer, who has yet to depart but still plans on leaving, likely got to help write the release announcing Scaramucci’s departure. That had to feel good. An email prankster punked WH staff with a series of fake emails posing as everyone from Reince Priebus to Jared Kushner. The WaPo reports that Trump Sr. dictated the original response for Junior when news broke about his meeting with a Russian lawyer and advised his son to say the meeting had been primarily about adoption. Trump, still not ready to concede defeat in the failed attempt to repeal the ACA, is threatening to cut off health insurance subsidies for low-income people. Everyone else has moved on to tax reform. Dems wrote Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that if he wants their help to pass tax reform, the legislation can't include tax cuts for the top 1% of income earners or add to the federal deficit. Over at the RNC, they’ve let a staffer go (more on that below). They’ve also asked staff not to delete any emails related to the 2016 election. And in some good news, Los Angeles will host the 2028 summer Olympics. Guys -- it’s August. Can you believe it? We’ve survived nearly eight months of a perpetual breaking news cycle. What will the rest of 2017 bring? We can’t call it. But as it happens, we’ll be here to tell you about it! This is what we’ve got today:- President Deval Patrick? The Obama team says yes, please.
- DCCC head says there’s no litmus test for Democratic candidates.
- RNC’s top Black outreach official is gone.
- Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) pushes to close pay gap for Black women.
- Valerie Jarrett gets Lyft-ed.
- NAACP warns POC traveling to Missouri.
- Retired executive Reggie Van Lee builds a family compound in Texas.
- Despite diversity efforts, Hollywood remains mostly white.
- Judges rules NC district lines be redrawn.
- Amazon battles descendants of slaves over historic property.
- Oakland using weed permits as reparations.
- We've got jobs!
- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) lobbies to lift recreational pot laws.
- Congresswoman Nanette Díaz Barragán (D-CA) intros bill to waive fees on military care packages.
- CHCI to honor AT&T’s AVP of Federal Relations.
- Walmart names a Senior Manager for Global Government Affairs.
- CA gov candidate John Chiang uses defiant streak as a credential.
- Black Enterprise hits Time Inc. over Essence sale.
- Could controversial AZ sheriff end up behind bars?
- Want to tailgate with Congressional Hispanic Staff Association? RSVP below in FOMO.
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Congressman Rubén Kihuen (D-NV) joined the Lebanese Congressional Caucus in welcoming Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri to DC last week. | |  |
Congresswoman Mia Love (R-UT) with her daughters at the Shawn Mendes concert last week. | |
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Obama Team Wants Deval Patrick for 2020
Politico reports that an effort is underway to recruit former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick to make a run for the White House. According to the report, Barack Obama is supporting the effort and strategist David Axelrod has had several conversations with Patrick about running, rattling off Patrick’s assets: small-town campaign experience from his 2006 gubernatorial run, neighbor-state advantage in New Hampshire, and the bloc of votes he’d potentially have as an African American heading into South Carolina. Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s close adviser and friend, says that a President Patrick is what “my heart desires.” As for Patrick, he’s currently at Bain Capital, running a new social good private equity fund called Double Impact, which has raised $390 million for investments in small- and medium-sized companies. “I’m trying to think about how to be helpful, because I care about the country, and I’m a patriot first. It’s way, way too soon to be making plans for 2020,” Patrick said on a Politico podcast recorded at Bain headquarters in Boston. “So I’ll just leave it at that.” The full story has a lot more. Check it out here.
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Harris on Black Women Pay Gap
Monday was Black Women's Equal Pay Day. Black women make only 63 cents on average for every dollar a white male is paid. This may not seem like a significant difference, but 37 cents on each dollar earned adds up to a devastating economic disadvantage for Black women and their families. Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) wants to address this problem, and she wrote about it in an article for Bustle. “We need to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill I’ve co-sponsored, which requires employers to show that pay differences are not due to gender, and cracks down on employers who break the rules or punish employees who seek to be paid equally. But that isn’t enough. We must address the disproportionate number of Black women who are stuck in low-paying jobs,” she writes. Black women are about 7% of the population, but make up just 2% of scientists and engineers. Harris wants to pass laws that incentivize companies and schools to increase opportunities for technical training and mentoring in the STEM field. She goes on to write, “We need to raise the federal minimum wage. If we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, four million Black women would see their incomes rise.” Read the entire piece here.
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Cornell Belcher readying for Meet the Press on Sunday. | |  |
Congressman Anthony Brown (D-MD) with the Congressional Blue Collar Caucus last week. | |
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Luján Says DCCC Will Fund Candidates Who Oppose Abortion Rights
In an interview with The Hill, DCCC Chair Congressman Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) said there will be no litmus tests for candidates, as Democrats seek to find a winning roster to regain the House majority in 2018. Hence, Dems will not withhold financial support for candidates who oppose abortion rights. “As we look at candidates across the country, you need to make sure you have candidates that fit the district, that can win in these districts across America,” the congressman said. But there’s a lot of concern about this new position, and how it may alienate the base. "Throwing weight behind anti-choice candidates is bad politics that will lead to worse policy,” said Mitchell Stille, who oversees campaigns for NARAL Pro-Choice America. “The idea that jettisoning this issue wins elections for Democrats is folly contradicted by all available data.” Get the story here.
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NC Judges Rule District Be Redrawn
Three federal judges on Monday ordered North Carolina's state legislature to draw new legislative district boundaries, ruling that the current boundaries drawn up by Republicans had been done improperly. In their unanimous ruling, the judges ordered the Legislature to draw new district lines by next month. The ruling affects 28 of the state’s legislative districts, which the courts last year said discriminated against African American voters by weakening their political power. The new ruling won’t impact the makeup of the Republican-dominated legislature this year because the court did not order new elections ahead of the 2018 midterms, but it does force them to draw new lines at a faster pace. Even before the final ruling, though, the Legislature voted to redraw districts held by Congressman G.K. Butterfield (D) and Congresswoman Alma Adams (D), preserving the balance of the state's 10 Republican, three Democrat congressional delegation. More here from The Hill.
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Valerie Jarrett Joins Lyft Board
Former Barack Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett has joined the board of directors for Lyft. In addition to her experience at the WH, she also brings experience tackling the problems and opportunities related to urban transportation through her roles as Commissioner of Planning and Development for the City of Chicago and Chair of the Chicago Transit board. “I am a frequent Lyft passenger and have been inspired by the strong community John and Logan have created that is dedicated to enlightened corporate values. We share a belief that reliable, affordable transportation positively impacts social mobility, and improves the quality of life in densely populated communities. I am thrilled to join the ride,” Jarrett said. Our congrats to this avid reader of The Beat DC! More here.
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CHCI Honors Susie Santana
CHCI and its alumni association announced on Monday that CHCI alumna Susan Santana will receive the 2017 Medallion of Excellence for a Distinguished Alumnus during this year’s CHCI Hispanic Heritage Month events in DC next month. The Distinguished Alumnus Award recognizes the exceptional professional achievements of CHCI alumni, and their commitment to the Latino community. Santana serves as Assistant Vice President, Federal Relations for AT&T. In this capacity, she is responsible for representing AT&T’s legislative interests before Congress on matters related to technology, the internet, taxes, and corporate diversity issues. Prior to joining AT&T, The UC Berkeley/UCLA Law School graduate practiced law at Holland & Knight in DC, as well as Baker and McKenzie in San Diego. Susie has served as past president of the Hispanic Bar Association and currently serves on the board of AT&T’s DC HACEMOS (Hispanic/Latino Employee Group) and the American Red Cross, National Capital Region. And -- she’s an avid reader of The Beat DC! Congrats, Susie! More here.
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The Beat DC's Tiffany D. Cross will co-host Keepin It Real with Rev. Al Sharpton every Tuesday at 1:20P. Today, they'll talk a White House in chaos and what's going on in DC that isn't making the headlines. Be sure to tune in!
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RNC’s Top Black Outreach Official Out As GOP Prepares to Launch New Outreach Program and Tensions with Omarosa
Telly Lovelace, the National Director of African American Initiatives and Media for the Republican National Committee, is no longer with the party. Lovelace had been in charge of a wide-ranging portfolio of responsibilities in Black outreach, press strategy, and field engagement at the RNC. Lovelace confirmed to BuzzFeed's Darren Sands yesterday that he has left the RNC. His departure comes amid the RNC’s department of strategic initiatives ramping up an effort to build a ground game targeted at communities of color. The program, which hasn’t been formally announced, has been hampered by both perceptions of this administration and infighting within the WH and RNC. Sands reports that the bickering over responsibility and power struggles that were a distraction during the campaign have continued. It accompanied tension between some inside the RNC and Omarosa, who ran Black outreach for the campaign and continues to manage that portfolio for the White House. Get more from BuzzFeed here.
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Walmart Names Senior Manager for Global Government Affairs
Walmart has named Christian Gómez, Jr. as their Senior Manager for Global Government Affairs, with a focus on Latin America. He was previously Economic Growth Adviser at USAID and is a Council of the Americas alum where he served as a Director of Energy. Prior to joining COA in 2013, Christian was a consultant at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), focusing on business models that reach the base of the pyramid worldwide. He has also served as a Program Assistant at the Inter-American Dialogue and as Executive Director of Princeton in Latin America (PiLA). Christian started his career at the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in San José, Costa Rica. After completing undergraduate studies at Princeton, Gómez went on to study abroad at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile before ultimately earning his MA in Latin American studies from Johns Hopkins University and then an MBA from Wharton. He’s fluent in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. More about Gómez here.
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Michael Eric Dyson worshipping at the House of Hope in Atlanta with faith leader Dewey Smith on Sunday. | |  |
Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) thanking his interns on National Intern Day last week. | |
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Duckworth Wants to Strengthen Enforcement Requirements for Foreign Lobbying
Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Monday introduced a bill that would strengthen registration requirements for foreign government lobbyists and crack down on foreign agents who break the law. The Foreign Agent Lobbying Transparency Enforcement Act would give DOJ the ability to impose civil financial penalties on lobbyists who fail to comply with the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA). “When lobbyists hide their relationships with foreign governments, it is not just a conflict of interest – it is dangerous to our national security,” said Duckworth. “The American people had no idea when Michael Flynn ... had been paid a significant amount of money to further the interests of the Turkish and Russian governments – and they did not know Paul Manafort had been paid tens of millions of dollars by a Kremlin-connected Ukrainian political party. These former Trump staffers, like countless other lobbyists, failed to disclose their status as foreign agents and they should face the consequences instead of being allowed to continue to operate with impunity.” Learn more here.
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Barragán Wants to Make it Easier to Send Care Packages to Troops
On Friday, Congresswoman Nanette Díaz Barragán (D-CA) introduced legislation that will make it easier for military families to send care packages to a loved one deployed in a combat zone. The Military Care Package Program Act of 2017 will waive postal service mailing costs whenever a family member sends a package to their combat-deployed father or mother, husband or wife, brother or sister, or child. “Having watched my sister put together care packages for her husband serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, I know military families shouldn't be worried about mailing costs when they send a care package,” said the congresswoman. “Care packages are far more than snacks or books. They’re vital reminders of the family life that service members left behind to serve our country.” More here.
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Symone Sanders with actress Yvette Nicole Brown at Politicon day two in Pasadena, CA over the weekend. | |  |
Congressman Darren Soto (D-FL) last week thanking Jeff Corwin for fighting for endangered species protection. | |
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Reggie Van Lee Builds Family Compound
Former Booz Allen Hamilton’s exec Reggie Van Lee has built a sprawling 20,000-square-foot estate in Houston for himself, his three sisters and their families. Van Lee recently retired as an Executive Vice President at a Houston consulting firm. “I built this house for not just my immediate family but for my extended family, including friends,” said Van Lee, a founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative. The house is complete with a hair salon, a pool, a banquet hall, and even a small church. In Van Lee’s quarters that he shares with Corey McCathern -- his husband of nearly six years --there is a picture of Reggie with Rosa Parks, one with President Clinton, and a photo with former first lady Michelle Obama. Much of the art throughout the home is by African American artists. A patron of the arts, he is a trustee of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Washington Ballet, and has supported many other arts and dance groups. Everyone has their own space so they can see each other anytime they like. Reggie, if you’re reading this, we’ve always thought of you as family. Ahem. So ... the guest room by the pool house should suit us just fine. See pics of this house here.
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NAACP Issues Travel Advisory to POC Traveling to Missouri
The NAACP issued a travel advisory warning people to be careful while in Missouri because of a danger that civil rights won’t be respected. It cites legislation signed by Gov. Eric Greitens that will make it more difficult to sue for housing or employment discrimination. The advisory also cites other issues, including a recent attorney general’s report that shows Black Missouri drivers last year were 75% more likely than whites to be stopped. Missouri NAACP President Rod Chapel (pictured) says national delegates voted the day before to adopt the advisory, which was put in place at a statewide level in June. More here.
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Friends of the American Latino Museum Executive Director, Estuardo Rodriguez, keynotes the 85th Anniversary Banquet of Phi Iota Alpha. The professional Latino fraternity donated $5,000 to the museum campaign. | |  |
Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) speaking at Politicon 2017 on Sunday. | |
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Norton Fights for Recreational Marijuana Laws
The ambiguity surrounding marijuana laws in the nation’s capital has provided an opportunity for online distributors. But it has also put consumers in a tricky spot. The district's recreational marijuana law, a voter-approved ballot initiative passed in 2014, legalized the possession, cultivation, and gifting of certain amounts of recreational marijuana, but not the selling of it. Congress has prevented DC from moving forward by restricting its funding. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), a nonvoting member of the U.S. House, has been lobbying lawmakers to lift the regulations. But NPR reports that some DC distributors have found a way to thrive. LeafedIn.org, an app that provides a map of cannabis distributors, has seen an exponential increase in DC users this summer. DC blogger and weed connoisseur Joe Tierney, also known as the Gentleman Toker, says young entrepreneurs are increasingly taking advantage of the law's gray areas around "gifting" to promote their startups. They'll sell food or clothes along with a marijuana "bonus." On Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee advanced an amendment that prevents the government from impeding medical marijuana laws in individual states. That was in defiance of a request by AG Jeff Sessions, a staunch opponent of marijuana legalization. For now, fans of the green benefit from being in the gray. More here.
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Oakland Gives Weed Business Permits as Reparations
In Oakland, convicted pot felons that want to own a legal marijuana business will now be prioritized under new, radical permit rules designed to make amends for the United States’ war on drugs. The Nation Post reports that the city’s new Equity Permit Program calls for 50% of all licenses for medical marijuana facilities to go to Oaklanders imprisoned for a pot offense in the last ten years, or to residents of six neighborhoods that police have excessively targeted for drug arrests. “Communities of color have been negatively and disproportionately impacted by disparate enforcement of cannabis laws,” reads the ordinance introducing the rules. The Oakland City Council last month voted unanimously to approve the program -- the first of its kind in the U.S. More here.
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The Hill Latino's Diana Marrero at The Hill’s 50 Most Beautiful People event last week. | |  |
Omarosa with her husband Pastor John Allen Newman on Sunday. | |
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Black Enterprise Criticizes Time Inc. Over Essence
The Beat DC reported the news last week that Time Inc. is looking to sell a majority stake in Essence magazine by the end of 2017. Although Time Inc. CEO Rich Battista described Essence as a “core asset” in an interview with the WSJ, he revealed that the publishing company is looking for a new investor that could enhance the magazine’s growth. But some are criticizing Time, Inc. for not having an open bidding process. “It is unfortunate ... there wasn’t an open bidding process in which Black entrepreneurs could have made an offer for the company and possibly preserve Essence as a Black-owned business and institution. There are a number of Black entrepreneurs—including those who own and operate BE 100s companies—who had the resources and management capability to acquire and run Essence Communications,” Black Enterprise’s Earl Butch Graves said in a statement. Editor-In-Chief Derek T. Dingle said, “It would be fitting if an African American-led group of investors could purchase that majority stake and apply new business and digital strategies to enhance the brand for a new generation.” More here.
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People of Color Grossly Underrepresented in Hollywood -- Especially Latinos
A new report from the Media, Diversity, & Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism finds that the representation of women, minorities, LGBT people, and disabled characters in films remain largely unchanged from the previous year, despite the heightened attention to diversity in Hollywood. At the bottom of the rung and most egregiously disproportionate to their U.S. demographics are women, Hispanics, and disabled characters. Exclusion, the report says, is the norm in Hollywood, not the exception. Of the speaking film characters surveyed: 70.8% were white; 13.6% Black; 5.7% Asian; 3.1% Hispanic; and less than 1% Native American, Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian. According to the latest U.S. Census, the nation is 61.3% white, 17.8% Hispanic, 5.7% Asian, 13.3% Black, 1.3% American Indian and Alaska Native and 0.2% Native Hawaiian. More striking still is the film-by-film "invisibility" breakdown, which finds that 25 of 100 films did not feature a single Black character in a speaking role; 54 films had no Hispanic characters (14 higher than in 2015); 44 had no Asian characters (a rare improvement from 2015 which tallied 49 films with zero Asians). For women of color, it's an even bleaker story. More here.
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HuffPost Makes Lydia Polgreen a Bot
HuffPost said last week that its Facebook Messenger bot, which was created to keep readers updated on Donald Trump, would shift gears to share HuffPost stories Editor-In-Chief Lydia Polgreen picks herself. HuffPost shifted the focus of the Messenger bot because it wasn’t driving enough engagement. Many subscribers were opening the chat to read the alerts, but not clicking through to read the stories, said Christine Roberts, HuffPost’s senior editor of audience growth and emerging platforms. Polgreen made history as the first woman of color and member of the LGBTQ community to lead the online news outlet. More here.
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MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid behind the scenes at Politicon 2017 on Saturday. | |  |
Angela Rye trying out her serious pose on Sunday. | |
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Scott Hosts Millennial Jobs Forum to Accompany Legislation
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce earlier this month convened a panel discussion that explored the business case for employers to hire individuals sometimes known as 'disconnected' or 'opportunity youth.' This is a follow up to the legislation introduced by Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA) in March. The Opening Doors for Youth Act of 2017 seeks to connect at-risk and opportunity youth with employment and educational opportunities. Elements of the bill include authorizing $1.5 billion in formula grants (state administered programs) for subsidized summer jobs for youth ages 16 to 24, $2 billion in formula grants for partially subsidized year-round jobs for youth ages 16 to 24 who are out of school and unemployed, $2 billion in competitive grants to assist communities that have high rates of youth disconnection, namely by funding partnerships to establish or expand community-based systems that provide opportunity for at-risk youth with comprehensive pathways to education and training. The bill has more than 50 co-sponsors in Congress, as well as support from corporations and dozens of groups that range from The Forum for Youth Investment to the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Despite those endorsements, the legislation does not yet have a companion bill in the Senate. More on the forum here.
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CA Gubernatorial Candidate John Chiang Has Defiant Streak
The LA Times profiles CA gubernatorial candidate John Chiang. He will face fellow Democrats Antonio Villaraigosa and Gavin Newsom, two of the state’s most charismatic politicians. Chiang, 55, has already banked nearly $9 million for the governor’s race, ensuring he’ll have plenty to spend on ads before the June 2018 primary. He graduated in 1984 from the University of South Florida in Tampa, then interned on Capitol Hill while earning a law degree at Georgetown. He worked for one Democratic Congressman from Illinois (Lane Evans) and two from California (Norman Mineta and Robert Matsui). On the campaign trail, he is playing up his defiant streak. In 2008, when he was the controller, he refused to obey then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s order to cut the pay of state workers to minimum wage until lawmakers passed a budget. In 2011, Chiang enraged legislators by docking their pay during another budget impasse, saying they’d breached a law that punishes them for late spending plans. He boasts that friends in the legislature stopped talking to him. The son of immigrants from Taiwan, Chiang grew up with three younger siblings in Palos Heights, IL. His father was a plastics engineer, his mother a full-time parent. They were the first Asian family to move into the mainly white upscale Chicago suburb in the 1960s when Chiang was just starting grade school. He recalls rampant bigotry -- taunts, fights, vandalism and “ugly racial epithets.” It left him feeling isolated but taught him empathy. Check out the full profile here.
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José Antonio Vargas, CEO of Define American, kayaking on Saturday while wearing his Immigrants Make America Great hat. | |  | Obama alumnus Open Society's Alex T. Johnson, MIS' María Meier, Dr. Mischa Thompson of the Helsinki Commission; and Amin Michel of Inclusion4Diversity of Amsterdam at the German Marshall Fund. | |
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Controversial Sheriff Arpaio Could End Up Behind Bars
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has ruled that former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio committed a crime by defying a court order to cease stopping suspected undocumented immigrants. Arpaio had served for 24 years as sheriff of Maricopa County, AZ -- which includes the city of Phoenix -- before being voted out last year. The criminal charge comes from a lawsuit filed ten years ago that contended Arpaio’s office regularly violated the rights of Latinos by racially profiling them and detaining them based solely on the suspicion that they were undocumented immigrants. Arpaio had been ordered in 2011 to stop the practice when there was no evidence that a law had been broken. Arpaio remained defiant and continued his policy in violation of the 2011 order. Yesterday’s contempt of court ruling is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. Arpaio’s lawyers say they will appeal, but as of now, sentencing is scheduled for October 5th. Arpaio had built a national reputation for his hardline approach and campaign against undocumented immigrants which drew praise from then-candidate Donald Trump. Arpaio supporters are already suggesting the president pardon the sheriff. More here from The NYT.
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Amazon Battles Descendants of Slaves Over Historic Property in VA
Jeff Bezos doesn’t just have to worry about members of Congress eyeing his Whole Foods acquisition. Some folks in Virginia are not too pleased with him either. More than a few outraged citizens turned out this weekend to protest the fact that Amazon, via the utility company Dominion Virginia Power, is attempting to seize 50 acres of land belonging to a mostly elderly African American Northern Virginia community that dates back to slavery. The move for a proposed 500,000 square-foot Amazon data center would pave over residents’ homes and build power lines in Haymarket, VA, and opponents say it would negatively impact the community’s environment and economy. The homeowners have been there for generations. Residents say many of the properties were purchased by freed slaves after emancipation and a number of the property owners are descendants of those freed slaves. The high-voltage power lines would also pave over parts of the site of the First and Second Battles of Bull Run (Manassas), two key clashes of the Civil War. More here.
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| FOMO Friday, August 4th, 5:30P: Black 44 sponsors a happy hour to celebrate former President Barack Obama's birthday. Invite only.
Saturday, August 5th, 3P: The Congressional Hispanic Staff Association hosts a tailgate before the DC United v. Toronto FC game. For more info, email James Hauser at: jph86@georgetown.edu.
Wednesday, August 9th - 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. Thursday, August 10th - 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. 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 - 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. 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.
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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