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</font></div><div><span style="font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">the CBC </span><strong style="font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><a href="http://www.aaenvironment.com/CBC/CBCOffshoreDrillingVote.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(83, 140, 214);">voted 29 to 9</a></strong><span style="font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> against the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (</span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(83, 140, 214); font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">H.R. 4761</a><span style="font-family: " trebuchet="Trebuchet" ms="MS" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">) to provide for exploration, development, and production activities for mineral resources on the outer Continental Shelf. The vote is the exact opposite of the CBC vote in favor of the U.S.-India commercial nuclear cooperation program.</span></div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <b>Congressional Black Caucus Foundation</b> (<b>CBCF</b>) is an American educational foundation. It conducts research on issues affecting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">African Americans</a>, publishes a yearly report on key legislation, and sponsors issue forums, leadership seminars and scholarships. Although linked with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus" title="Congressional Black Caucus" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Congressional Black Caucus</a> (CBC), the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is a separate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit" class="mw-redirect" title="Nonprofit" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">nonprofit</a> group that runs programs in education, healthcare and economic development.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Established in 1976 by members of the CBC, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) began as a non-partisan research institute.</p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3px; display: table; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="margin: 0px; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border: 0px; font-size: 13.3px; line-height: 1.3; display: inline;">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan" style="font-size: 12.502px;"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" /></span></div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History</span></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Foundation</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#2004-today" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">2004 - today</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#Programs" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Programs</span></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#Phoenix_Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Phoenix Award</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#Further_reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Further reading</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Foundation">Foundation</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation&action=edit§ion=2" title="Edit section: Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">African American</a> members of Congress established the Congressional Black Caucus in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[2]</a></sup> In 1976, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation was established as a non-partisan research institute by members of the Congressional Black Caucus and others to promote African Americans' involvement in the national political process. The first official meeting of its incorporators was held on September 30, 1976. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Brathwaite_Burke" title="Yvonne Brathwaite Burke" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Yvonne Burke</a> of Los Angeles (not yet a member of Congress) was elected temporary chairman. In 1981, expansion of the group resulted from a change in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_House_Administration" title="United States House Committee on House Administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">House Administration Committee</a> rules governing caucuses.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[3]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The first Annual Congressional Black Caucus Dinner was held in 1971, before the creation of the CBCF.</p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="2004-today">2004 - today</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation&action=edit§ion=3" title="Edit section: 2004 - today" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">The New York Times</a></i> investigated the caucus’s connections to corporate interests and reported that from 2004 to 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus’s political and charitable wings took in at least $55 million in corporate and union contributions.<sup id="cite_ref-powerhouse_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-powerhouse-4" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">[4]</a></sup></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The caucus says its nonprofit groups are intended to help disadvantaged African Americans by providing scholarships and internships to students, researching policy and holding seminars on topics like healthy living.<sup id="cite_ref-powerhouse_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-powerhouse-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation spent more on the caterer for its signature legislative dinner and conference — nearly $700,000 for an event one organizer called “Hollywood on the Potomac” — than it gave out in scholarships, federal tax records showed.<sup id="cite_ref-powerhouse_4-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-powerhouse-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Morning_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Dallas Morning News" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Dallas Morning News</a></i> reported in August 2010 that congresswoman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Bernice_Johnson" title="Eddie Bernice Johnson" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Eddie Bernice Johnson</a> had awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide's two children using foundation funds. The recipients were ineligible under anti-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepotism" title="Nepotism" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">nepotism</a> rules of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which provided the money, and all of the awards violated a foundation requirement that scholarship winners live or study in a caucus member's district.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[5]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The foundation's former chairman, Rep. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_M.Payne" title="Donald M. Payne" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Donald Payne</a>, D-N.J., said that neither the foundation nor the Congressional Black Caucus "will allow unethical behavior in the awarding of scholarships or any programs that are designed to benefit the community."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[6]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Today, the Foundation is organized as a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy, research and educational institute with an office located near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_Circle" title="Dupont Circle" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Dupont Circle</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a>, as well as a Board of Directors and two Advisory Councils. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Richmond" title="Cedric Richmond" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Cedric Richmond</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[7]</a></sup> is the Chairperson of CBCF and Elsie L. Scott is its president and Chief Executive Officer.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[8]</a></sup></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Programs">Programs</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fundraising events and corporate partners support CBCF programs. The CBCF funds many of its activities by hosting an Annual Legislative Conference each September.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[9]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_Technologies" title="Raytheon Technologies" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Raytheon Technologie</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raytheon_Technologies" title="Raytheon Technologies" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);">s</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> funds Defense & Aerospace Policy Fellowships at CBCF.</span><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[10]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Foundation often works with the Congressional Black Caucus Spouses, a group of wives and husbands of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">African American</a> members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">United States Congress</a>.</p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Phoenix_Award">Phoenix Award</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(84, 89, 93);">[</span></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Phoenix Award is the highest honor the group awards.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus_Foundation#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[11]</a></sup> Recipients include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Hurd" class="mw-redirect" title="Cynthia Hurd" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Cynthia Hurd</a>.</p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ref</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In Black Caucus, a Fund-Raising Powerhouse</font></div><div>
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</div><div>By Eric Lipton and Eric Lichtblau</div><div>Feb. 13, 2010</div><div>WASHINGTON When the Congressional Black Caucus wanted to pay off the mortgage on its foundation’s stately 1930s redbrick headquarters on Embassy Row, it turned to a familiar roster of friends: corporate backers like Wal-Mart, AT&T, General Motors, Coca-Cola and Altria, the nation’s largest tobacco company.</div><div>
</div><div>Soon enough, in 2008, a jazz band was playing at what amounted to a mortgage-burning party for the $4 million town house....</div><div>
</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">January 5, 2022 </span> </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">CONTACT</span>:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Tory Hairston</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />202.263.2812<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="about:blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s;"><font color="#000000">media@cbcfinc.org</font></a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">WASHINGTON</span>—The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) announced today that civil and human rights leader and policy expert Nicole Austin-Hillery will lead the organization as its new president and chief executive officer.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Austin-Hillery brings deep policy, legal, advocacy, and media experience to the role. For more than 20 years, she has used her background to provide leadership and strategic counsel on a range of policy issues, including civil and international human rights, voting rights and criminal justice reform. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I am proud to welcome Nicole Austin-Hillery as she embraces the mantle of leadership at CBCF,” said Lori George Billingsley, chair of the CBCF Board of Directors. “Nicole brings significant policy expertise, legal acumen, civil rights and racial justice advocacy and media prowess to this role. Her rich background makes her uniquely suited to further our mission of advancing the global Black community.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Austin-Hillery comes to the CBCF directly from serving as executive director of the US Program at Human Rights Watch. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Austin-Hillery was the first Director and Counsel of<b> The Brennan Center for Justice</b>, Washington, D.C. office and served as its chief representative before Congress and the Executive Branch. Austin-Hillery draws significant litigation experience from her time practicing with the law firm of Mehri & Skalet, PLLC as part of the firm’s civil rights employment class action practice. She began her legal career as the George N. Lindsay Civil Rights Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It is an honor to join the CBCF at this critical moment when strong policy and leadership development on a host of critical issues such as racial justice, economic empowerment, public safety and education will help further advance the important work of the Foundation and its impact on the Black community,” said Austin-Hillery.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Her experience includes testifying before Congress, state, and local legislative bodies, publishing numerous pieces for major news outlets including</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The</em> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Washington Post, Time </em>magazine, and CNN.com. She has been a frequent expert on CBCF Annual Legislative Conference panels, most recently serving as a panelist during the 2021 CBCF Annual Legislative Conference session, “Democratization of US Foreign Policy—How Diversity Can Shape U.S. Engagement.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As CBCF president and CEO, Austin-Hillery will use her expertise and leadership to carry out the Foundation’s mission. She will continue to cultivate and foster a strong organizational culture by strengthening programs, services, community engagement and operations in a virtual space, as well as serve as the Foundation’s top spokesperson.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Austin-Hillery is past president of the Washington Bar Association and the Washington Council of Lawyers and has served as an Advisory Committee Member of the ABA Standing Committee on Election Law. She has also served as an adjunct civil rights professor at the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law and is a former Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; line-height: 1.9; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Austin-Hillery is a graduate of the Howard University School of Law and Carnegie Mellon University.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">yikes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Lisa Osborne Ross was named CEO of Edelman's U.S. operation in April 2021. Ross became the first Black woman to run a PR operation of that size.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-33" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[33]</a></sup></font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="GEO_Group_private_prison">GEO Group private prison</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Edelman supported private prison company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO_Group" title="GEO Group" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">GEO Group</a> and helped in "laundering the reputation of private US concentration camps" in July 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_65-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:1-65" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[65]</a></sup> In May 2019, executives from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Washington, D.C.</a> office, including office president Lisa Ross and former Trump White House deputy press secretary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Walters" title="Lindsay Walters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lindsay Walters</a>, went to Florida to present the pitch.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_66-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:2-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a></sup> In June, when word spread across the company that the work was being pursued, debate sprang up on networking app <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fishbowl(application)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fishbowl (application) (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fishbowl</a>. The work was resigned by Edelman in July 2019 and announced during an all-hands meeting in Washington. On Fishbowl, an employee commented that the executives "took the opportunity to basically shame us for ruining the work for the company because they couldn't trust us not to leak it to the press."<sup id="cite_ref-:2_66-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:2-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a></sup> Other employees on Fishbowl made similar comments.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_66-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:2-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The company's official response was that "Edelman takes on complex and diverse clients ... and ultimately decided not to proceed with this work."<sup id="cite_ref-:2_66-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:2-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a></sup> Edelman also refused to confirm they did similar work for another major private prison company, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreCivic" title="CoreCivic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CoreCivic</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_66-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelman(firm)#cite_note-:2-66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[66]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <b><a href="https://www.helptostudy.com/mistletoe-research-fellowship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: inherit; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s, background-color 0.1s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">fellowship</a> program </b>is committed to helping students gain the necessary skills to become the upcoming generation of leaders in public service and to receive hands-on public policy training as full-time legislative aides and policy analysts.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is an American educational foundation. It researches issues affecting African Americans, publishes a yearly report on crucial legislation, and sponsors issue forums, leadership seminars, and scholarships.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-143" data-inserter-version="2" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></span></font><table style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 1px 0px 0px 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-image: initial; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; width: 768px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><tbody style="box-sizing: inherit;"><tr style="box-sizing: inherit;"><td width="163" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-image: initial; padding: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Organization</font></td><td width="438" style="box-sizing: inherit; border-width: 0px 1px 1px 0px; 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