Mark Andrew Green is an American politician and diplomat. He is currently president and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Before joining the Wilson Center on March 15,2021,he served as executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership,and prior to that,as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 1999,was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2007,representing Wisconsin's 8th congressional district,ran unsuccessfully for governor of Wisconsin in 2006,and held the post of United States Ambassador to Tanzania from August 2007 until January 2009. Green served as president of the International Republican Institute from 2014 to 2017 and sits on the board of directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Raymond Leo Flynn is an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston,Massachusetts,from 1984 until 1993. He also served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 1993 to 1997.
The Community Reinvestment Act is a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to help meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities,including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. Congress passed the Act in 1977 to reduce discriminatory credit practices against low-income neighborhoods,a practice known as redlining.
Donald Kenneth Newman,OC is a retired senior parliamentary editor for CBC Television who also hosted CBC Newsworld's daily politics program CBC News:Politics. Newman is known for his signature introductory phrase to the viewer "Welcome to the Broadcast",in which he enunciates the first syllable of the last word more slowly than the rest of the greeting. The phrase became the title of his memoir,published in 2013.
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science is a private university in Willowbrook,California,focused on health sciences. It was founded in 1966 in response to inadequate medical access within the Watts region of Los Angeles,California. The university is named in honor of Charles R. Drew.
Ruth Sando Fahnbulleh Perry was a Liberian politician. She served as the interim Chairman of the Council of State of Liberia from 3 September 1996 until 2 August 1997,following the First Liberian Civil War. After eleven international peace attempts between 1990 and 1995 to end the civil war in Liberia,the attempts appeared to succeed. The interim Council of State consisted of a civilian chairman,as well as members of warring factions:Charles Taylor,United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy-K leader Alhaji Kromah,Liberia Peace Council leader George Boley,and two other civilians.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and international relations scholar who has been serving as the United States ambassador to China since 2022.
Said Tayeb Jawad is an Afghan politician,businessman,academic,and diplomat. He is the Chief Executive officer of Capitalize LLC,Global Political Strategist and Senior Counselor at APCO Worldwide,and the Chairman of the American University of Afghanistan,a prominent private,liberal arts,not-for-profit,co-education University.
Padraig O'Malley is an Irish international peacemaker,author,and professor. O'Malley specializes in the problems of divided societies,such as South Africa and Northern Ireland. He has written extensively on these subjects and has been actively involved in promoting dialogue among representatives of differing factions. He is currently the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Suzan Denise Johnson Cook is a U.S. presidential advisor,pastor,theologian,author,activist,and academic who served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from April 2011 to October 2013. She has served as a policy advisor to President Bill Clinton and later to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros,a dean and professor of communications at Harvard University,a professor of theology at New York Theological Seminary,a pastor at a number of churches,a television producer,and the author of nearly a dozen books. She was the first female senior pastor in the 200-year history of the Mariners Temple Baptist Church in NYC part of the American Baptist Churches USA and a close friend of Coretta Scott King. She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
David Isaac Adelman is an American businessman,lawyer and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from April 2010 to September 2013. Adelman is the Managing Director and General Counsel of asset manager Krane Funds Advisors in New York. He is a Trustee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For more than a decade he has taught international relations as an adjunct professor at New York University.Adelman's official papers are part of the collection at the Richard B. Russell Library at the University of Georgia. In 2016,in recognition of his public service the State of Georgia dedicated a bridge as the Ambassador David Adelman Bridge on State Highway 42. Adelman is a member of the Advisory Council of the Israel-Asia Center.
Charles Hammerman Rivkin is an American media executive and former United States diplomat who is chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
John William Blaney was a United States State Department official and former U.S. Ambassador to Liberia. Ambassador Blaney led successfully U.S. efforts to end Liberia's long civil war,including crossing no man's land in 2003 to negotiate an end to the fighting,which enabled the formal peace process in Ghana to conclude successfully the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. For his achievements in Liberia,Ambassador Blaney was awarded the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award,the highest diplomatic honor of his nation. Previous diplomatic assignments included Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in South Africa,Director for Southern African Affairs at the State Department,Presidential designation as the U.S. Deputy Representative to the ECOSOC of the United Nations,Minister-Counselor at U.S. Embassy Moscow,and positions working on several nuclear arms control negotiations. He also served as a Legislative Assistant in both houses of Congress,and as an economist at the U.S. Treasury and State Departments. During the course of his career,Ambassador Blaney received many State Department honors as well as Presidential and foreign awards,including Liberia's Order of the Knight Great Band,and an honorary doctorate in Political Science. He is the author/editor of Successor States to the USSR,and many journal articles including,"The Art of Strategy Creation for Complex Situations". Prior to his diplomatic career,Blaney served as an officer in the U.S. Army.
Matthew Winthrop Barzun is an American businessman,diplomat and political fundraiser who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He is a business executive who is known for his work with CNET Networks and for his fundraising work on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He served as United States Ambassador to Sweden from 2009 to 2011. He was selected by President Barack Obama as National Finance Chair for the president's 2012 re-election campaign. He is author of The Power of Giving Away Power from Optimism Press,an imprint of Penguin Random House.
African-Americans in foreign policy in the United States catalogs distinguished African Americans who have and continue to contribute to international development,diplomacy,and defense through their work with the U.S. Department of State,the U.S. Agency for International Development,the U.S. Information Agency,and the U.S. Congress,and other notable agencies and non-governmental organizations. The creators acknowledge the presence of the interagency contributions to the foreign affairs realm,and welcome additional content to showcase the achievements of African-Americans in other relevant USG agencies.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy III is an American politician and diplomat who most recently served as the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland from 2022 to 2024. Prior to this,Kennedy served as the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 4th congressional district from 2013 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented a district that extends from Boston's western suburbs to the state's South Coast. He worked as an assistant district attorney in the Cape and Islands and Middlesex County,Massachusetts,offices before his election to Congress. In January 2021,he became a CNN commentator.
Lukman Faily is the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States. He has served as the Iraqi Ambassador to Japan.
John Rufus Gifford is an American politician,and diplomat,who has served as Finance Chair of the Harris 2024 presidential campaign since July 2024. He was the chief of protocol of the United States from 2022 to 2023. Between 2013 and 2017,he was the United States ambassador to Denmark.
The Bay State Banner is a weekly newspaper primarily geared toward the readership interests of the African-American community in Boston,Massachusetts. Distributed free of charge,it was founded in 1965 by Melvin B. Miller,who remained the chief editor and publisher until March 2023. In 2015,the publication celebrated its 50th anniversary serving the region's minority-oriented neighborhoods.
Raymond A. Jordan Jr. was an American politician from Massachusetts. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,representing Springfield from 1975 until 1994.
