Archive | May, 2012

Honoring Nancy Pelosi’s 25th Year In Congress

WEDNESDAY JUNE 6, 2012 11:30AM – DOORS OPEN 12:15PM – PROGRAM BEGINS SEWALL-BELMONT HOUSE & MUSEUM 144 CONSTITUTION AVENUE NE, WASHINGTON, DC 20002 Rachel Maddow, host of “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC, will speak with Leader Pelosi about her experiences and achievements throughout her notable career. Special remarks by Michelle D. Bernard, chairman, founder, […]

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Friday’s HBO ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’s’ Guests Are: Michelle Bernard, Paul Krugman, Arthur Laffer, Jeffrey Gettleman And Kevin Nealon

May 22, 2012: Friday’s HBO ‘Real Time With Bill Maher’s’ Guests Are: Michelle Bernard, Paul Krugman, Arthur Laffer, Jeffrey Gettleman And Kevin Nealon, Highlight Hollywood Exclusive News   http://www.highlighthollywood.com/2012/05/22/fridays-hbo-real-time-with-bill-mahers-guests-are-michelle-bernard-paul-krugman-arthur-laffer-jeffrey-gettleman-and-kevin-nealon-highlight-hollywood-exclusive/

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The Daily Run Down with Chuck Todd: The 2012 Presidential Race Remains Close

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May 22, 2012: Michelle D. Bernard, president & CEO of the Bernard Center joins Bloomberg’s Jeanne Cummings and communications strategist and former Spokeswoman for Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Jill Zuckman to discuss the latest Washington Post – ABC News Poll about the 2012 race for the presidency.

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The Washington Post’s She The People: National Women’s History Museum Deserves a Place on the National Mall

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The Washington Post’s She The People, May 10, 2012 If only it were possible this Mother’s Day … I would thank Sojourner Truth and Harriett Tubman for their work in the anti-slavery and women’s rights movements of their time. I would thank Susan B. Anthony and Victoria Woodhull for their dedication to women’s suffrage and […]

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The Hill: President Obama’s Support for Gay Marriage Demonstrates the Moral Leadership America Needs

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The Hill’s Pundits Blog, May 10, 2012, by Michelle D. Bernard The manner in which those who would be president view the basic civil liberties and rights of all Americans regardless of race, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation says all that we need to know about the moral character of those who would be president […]

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POLITICO: Gay Marriage: Black Voters Remain Divided

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POLITICO, May 9, 2012 Some say African-American voters are closer to Republicans than Democrats on the issue. | Reuters By JOSEPH WILLIAMS | 5/9/12 6:39 PM EDT Updated: 5/10/12 7:48 AM EDT African-Americans voted 2-1 in favor of the North Carolina amendment banning gay marriage Tuesday, but the White House is betting that black voters […]

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Minnesota Public Radio: Does America Need to Rethink Family Values?

May 8, 2012: Bernard Center president & CEO Michelle D. Bernard joins host Kerri Williams of MPR’s The Daily Circuit and Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of law at Syracuse University to discuss whether America needs to rethink family values.

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The Washington Post’s She The People: Sorry North Carolina, Marriage Is A Basic Civil Right

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The Washington Post’s She The People, May 9, 2011 I am a Christian.  I believe that America is the greatest nation on earth.  I also believe that the much-ballyhooed fight to preserve the socially conservative notion of “traditional American family values” is nothing more than an attempt to go back in time to an era where […]

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Current TV’s The War Room with Jennifer Granholm: Attacking Liberties is Bad for the GOP’s Brand

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May 3, 2012: Bernard Center president & CEO Michelle D. Bernard joins Current TV’s The War Room with Jennifer Granholm to discuss the GOP’s war on women and attack on personal liberties, endorsements of Governor Romney, recent swing state polls, the importance of Virginia this presidential election cycle, and state support for a “freedom to marry” […]

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The Washington Post’s She The People: President Obama Must Support Afghanistan’s Women Against the Taliban

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The Washington Post’s She The People A girl reads aloud in an unsanctioned girls school in Spina, Afghanistan, on April 12, 2012. The Taliban shuttered a U.S.-funded girls’ school in 2007, leaving some children to attend an unsanctioned school in a family’s living room. (Kevin Sieff/The Washington Post) President Obama was elected to fix the […]

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