Washington Post editor Karen Attiah moderates a discussion about Saudi hacking at the 2019 Oslo Freedom Forum in Oslo, Norway, on May 28, 2019.
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Annual Meeting Co-Chair national association of black journalists The convention pulled out on Tuesday in an apparent reaction to the organization’s decision to have former President Donald Trump speak at its convention and job fairs. chicago Wednesday, among other factors.
NABJ24 Convention Co-Chair: ‘For reporters covering Trump, I wish them good luck’ Karen Atiyah She announced her decision to resign in a social media post. “For everyone else, I look forward to meeting and reconnecting with all of you in the Windy City.”
“While my decision was influenced by many factors, I was not involved in or consulted in any way regarding the decision to stand for Trump in this form,” wrote Atiyah, a Washington Post columnist who writes about international Articles on affairs, culture and human rights issues.
Founded in 1975, NABJ is the largest association of journalists of color in the United States. Over the years, the venue has hosted speakers including then-Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, as well as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
CNBC has asked Attiyah, NABJ and a Trump presidential campaign spokesperson for comment on Attiyah’s statement.
Tia Mitchell, a Washington correspondent for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, responded to the controversy surrounding Trump’s appearance in her own X post, saying she helped arrange the event as a chairperson of the NABJ Political Working Group.
“I helped make this decision. It is consistent with the invitation NABJ has extended to every presidential candidate for decades,” Mitchell wrote. In that X post. “But please keep reporting. I will continue to work hard to create opportunities for reporters to interview the potential next president.”
Mitchell’s posts are only visible to users to whom she has given access.
NABJ announced Monday that Republican nominee Trump will “participate in a conversation with reporters” in front of attendees at the convention.
The group said the event with Trump will be hosted by ABC News senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott, Faulkner Focus anchor and “Outnumbered” co-host, Fox News’ Harris Faulkner and Semafor Hosted by political journalist Kadia Goba.
NABJ said it also invited Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic de facto presidential nominee, to speak at the convention. “Her confirmation is still pending,” the organization said.
Harris’ father is black and his mother was born in India. If elected president, she would be the first woman and first South Asian elected president.
Trump has been criticized for racist comments during his presidency haiti and african countries Called it “a country of assholes” when meeting with senators at the White House in 2018.
trump nephew Fred Trump III In his new memoir, Donald Trump recounts how he twice used the “n” word after discovering his convertible had been slashed while parked. The Trump campaign said Fred Trump’s claims were “completely fake news of the highest order.”
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Trump delivers a speech during a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina, the United States, on July 24, 2024.
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Donald Trump and his father Fred Trump indicted by US Department of Justice Ministry of Justice In 1973, black potential tenants were allegedly discriminated against on the basis of race in a New York housing complex.
Donald Trump noted that he and his father settled the case two years later “not guilty.”
Attiah was named the 2019 NABJ Journalist of the Year.
In the same year, she received George Polk Special Awardone of the most prestigious awards in American journalism, shared with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius for an article about the murders Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi November 2018, Saudi Arabia Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
Attiah, whose parents are from African countries ghana and nigeriarecruited Khashoggi to the Washington Post and hired him.
Trump, who was president at the time of Khashoggi’s murder, refuses to accept the investigative agency’s conclusions CIA The killing was allegedly carried out on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
In March 2020, while Trump was still in the White House, the State Department blamed the murder on Saudi Arabian government agents.
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