politics
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The White House Correspondents Dinner and me
My journalism career has taken me a lot of cool and exclusive places. But not the White House Correspondents Dinner. And I’m OK with that. I did for several years in the 200s attend and cover the Radio/TV Correspondents Dinner, the lesser-known but still star-studded gala that draws the president one year and the vice Continue reading
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An epic life
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/04/25/harry-belafonte-dies-appreciation-haygood/ We lost a giant this week: Harry Belafonte. I grew up in the ’70s and ’80s and knew Belafonte not as a singer or an actor but as a civil rights activist and a force for good. (I thank my mom for telling me about him.) But even I, knowing some of the story, Continue reading
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A return to the political conventions of old? Probably not
Chicago was announced Tuesday as the site of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, beating out New York and Atlanta. The Republican National Convention will be held next year in Milwaukee. The last round of conventions, held in the pandemic year of 2020, looked nothing like the conventions of the past. Both were scaled back. It Continue reading
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Journalist and writer. Loves writing, storytelling, books, typewriters. Always trying to find my line. Oh, and here’s where I am now.
Nows and Forevers 