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SUMMARY:At Issue: The Politicization of the F.B.I. Featuring New York Times F.B.I. and DOJ correspondent Devlin Barrett and Former F.B.I. Agent Michael Feinberg
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register HereHill Center launched its new public affairs discussion series At Issue in April. The series examines the many critical issues we are faced with today. \nThe New York Times recently published an editorial board opinion titled\, “Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe\,” in which it argues\, “Only 11 days after President Trump was inaugurated for a second term\, his administration began a purge of the F.B.I. that now threatens some of the bureau’s most important missions. His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers\, including the division heads overseeing national security\, cybersecurity and criminal investigations. Several had worked on prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters or had assisted in the various investigations of Mr. Trump\, and Emil Bove\, then the acting deputy attorney general\, said they could not be trusted to carry out the president’s agenda. \nThat was just the beginning. Over the past five months\, many F.B.I. agents\, including other top managers and national security experts\, have been fired\, pressured to leave or transferred to lesser roles. Hundreds have resigned on their own\, [including Michael Feinberg]\, unwilling to follow the demands of the Trump administration. Their absence has left a vacuum in divisions that are supposed to protect the public. Mr. Trump’s playbook for the F.B.I. is plain to see. He is turning it into an enforcement agency for MAGA’s priorities.” \nAs Devlin Barrett noted in recent reporting\, “The Trump administration has taken a host of measures meant to punish his perceived enemies. He has also forced out F.B.I. agents and executives and demoted or reassigned a wide swath of senior Justice Department officials whom Mr. Trump and his top aides do not trust. In firing scores of law enforcement officials based solely on Mr. Trump’s expansive claim of executive power\, the administration has flouted longstanding civil service laws meant to ensure the public receives professional services from government agencies. Many of those fired individuals have sued\, but the cases are moving slowly through the courts.” \nMichael Feinberg\, a top deputy in the Norfolk\, Va.\, office\, had ties to a former agent whom Kash Patel\, the F.B.I. director\, identified in his book as part of the so-called deep state. The moves add to the transfers\, ousters and demotions that have rippled across the F.B.I. as Mr. Patel and Dan Bongino\, his No. 2\, promise to remake the country’s premier law enforcement agency. The wave of changes\, current and former agents say\, amount to little more than retaliation\, underscoring what they describe as the politicization of the F.B.I. as its leaders seek to mollify Mr. Trump’s supporters. \nCritics say Mr. Patel and Mr. Bongino\, who are clear about their loyalty to the president and lack the experience of their predecessors\, are simply doing what they railed about for years under the previous administration: weaponizing the bureau. In a statement addressing his decision to step down\, Mr. Feinberg denounced the agency as an organization that had begun “to decay.” \nDevlin Barrett covers the Justice Department and the F.B.I. for The New York Times\, explaining how decisions are made inside these powerful and often secretive agencies that have played an ever-growing role in American politics. Barrett joined The Times in 2024 after covering federal law enforcement for more than two decades for The New York Post\, The Associated Press\, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. Barrett has covered many significant FBI-related stories\, including the Mar-a-Lago documents\, the Mueller investigation reaching into the Trump White House\, and the Jan. 6 FBI warning about extremism. \nHe is also the author of the book October Surprise: How the F.B.I. Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election\, which details the FBI’s role in the 2016 presidential election. The book recounts the enormously consequential role of the Justice Department and F.B.I. in the 2016 presidential election. Barrett was part of reporting teams that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2018 and 2022. In 2017 he was a co-finalist for both the Pulitzer for feature writing and the Pulitzer for international reporting. \nMichael Feinberg is currently a Public Service Fellow with the Lawfare Institute\, and a former Assistant Special Agent in Charge with the Federal Bureau of Investigation\, where he spent the overwhelming majority of his career combatting the People’s Republic of China’s intelligence services. During the course of his tenure with the Bureau he worked in the Los Angeles\, Washington\, and Norfolk Field Offices\, with additional time spent at FBI Headquarters. He is a recipient of the FBI’s highest recognition\, the Director’s Award for Excellence\, for his work serving as the primary architect of the investigation of Huawei Technologies\, a number of its subsidiaries\, and multiple employees. He was also nominated for the commendation two times previously\, both also focusing on East Asian matters. He was awarded numerous other Bureau honors and recognized by the Director of National Intelligence for his counterintelligence efforts on three separate occasions. Under his leadership\, numerous squads in multiple field offices successfully prosecuted Chinese intelligence officers\, their agents – including one working as a mole within the FBI – and multiple corporate entities facilitating the PRC’s intelligence operations. Toward the end of his career\, Michael spent time on counterterrorism matters\, as well. \nPrior to his service with the FBI\, he was an attorney in both private and public practice. He has a B.A. cum laude and J.D. from Brandeis University and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law\, respectively\, and spent multiple summers at Middlebury College studying Mandarin. The opinions presented at this event are entirely his own and not that of the U.S. government.
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SUMMARY:Iranian Journalist Fatemeh Jamalpour discusses her new book For The Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register Here“Personally driven\, historically necessary\, and politically salient.” —Kirkus Reviews \nFatemeh Jamalpour will be in conversation with Holly Dagres\, Senior Fellow The Washington Institute \nFatemeh Jamalpour is a feminist journalist banned from working in Iran by the Ministry of Intelligence. Jamalpour has worked as a freelance reporter for outlets such as The Sunday Times\, The Paris Review and the Los Angeles Times\, and has also held positions at BBC World News in London and Shargh newspaper in Tehran. She has two master’s degrees in journalism and communication from Northwestern University and Allameh Tabatabaei University in Tehran and was a 2024-25 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. \nHolly Dagres is a senior fellow at the think tank\, The Washington Institute. She is also the curator for the popular weekly newsletter\, The Iranist\, on Substack. Holly is Iranian-American and spent her formative years in Iran. \nFor The Sun After Long Nights\, co-authored by Nilo Tabrizy\, is a moving exploration of the 2022 women-led protests in Iran\, as told through the interwoven stories of two Iranian journalists. In September 2022\, a young Kurdish woman\, Mahsa Jîna Amini\, died after being beaten by police officers who arrested her for not adhering to the Islamic Republic’s dress code. Her death galvanized thousands of Iranians – mostly women – who took to the streets in protest in one of the largest uprisings in the country in decades: the “Woman\, Life\, Freedom” movement. Despite the threat of imprisonment or death for her work as a journalist covering political unrest\, state repression\, and grassroots activism in Iran—which has led to multiple interrogation sessions and arrests—Fatemeh Jamalpour joined the throngs of people fighting to topple Iran’s religious extremist regime. Across the globe\, Nilo Tabrizy\, who emigrated from Iran with her family and was raised in Canada\, was covering the protests and state violence in Iran\, knowing that spotlighting the women on the frontlines and the systemic injustice of the Iranian government meant she would not be able to safely return to Iran in the future. Though they had met only once in person\, Nilo and Fatemeh corresponded constantly\, often through encrypted platforms in order to protect Fatemeh’s privacy and security. As the protests continued to unfold\, they shared what led them to embark on an effort to document the spirit and legacy of the movement\, and the history\, geopolitics\, and influences that led to this point. At once deeply personal and assiduously reported\, For the Sun After Long Nights offers two perspectives on what it means\, as a journalist\, to cover the stories that are closest to one’s heart—both from the frontlines and from afar. \nThe title FOR THE SUN AFTER LONG NIGHTS\, originates from the song “Baraye” by Shervin Hajipour which went viral online and became a protest anthem for the movement in 2022. Hajipour is currently serving a three year and eight-month sentence for “encouragement to protest.” His story embodies how poetry\, a pillar of Iranian culture\, has historically been used for political commentary. This memoir follows that same tradition of using art as a form of self-expression and a political vessel. \nBooks will be available for sale. A book signing will follow the discussion. \nFatemeh Jamalpour photo credit: Joan Susie
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/iranian-journalist-fatemeh-jamalpour-discusses-her-new-book-for-the-sun-after-long-nights/
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SUMMARY:The Life of a Poet Featuring Acclaimed Poet Reginald Harris in Conversation with Poet/Editor Kyle Dargan
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register Here“Reginald Harris’s Autogeography is the winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize. The book has been praised for being great black poetry and great LGBT poetry\, but it’s great writing beyond category.”         – Poet\, Sean Singer \nEstablished in 2013\, The Life of a Poet is a quarterly series of in-depth literary conversations. The series offers a rare opportunity to consider a writer’s entire career and explore the major events that have shaped their work. Readings from that work are interspersed throughout the conversation. Originally moderated by Washington Post book critic Ron Charles\, the series is now helmed by noted poet and editor Kyle Dargan. Over the years featured poets have included Terrance Hayes\, Elizabeth Alexander\, Marie Howe\, Ada Limon\, Marilyn Chin\, Adrian Matejka\, Janine Joseph\, and Carl Phillips among many others. \nReginald Harris is a poet\, writer\, and literary consultant. A Cave Canem Fellow born in Annapolis\, Maryland\, and raised in Baltimore\, his first book\, 10 Tongues\, was finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize\, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year\, and a Lambda Literary Award; his second collection\, Autogeography\, was a finalist for the Griot-Stadler and White Pine Press Poetry Prizes\, won the 2012 Cave Canem / Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize\, and was on lists of “Best Books of Year” in The Volta and Beltway Poetry Quarterly. A member of the National Book Critics Circle and recipient of Individual Artist Awards for poetry and fiction from the Maryland State Arts Council\, Harris’s work has appeared in numerous print and online publications\, including African-American Review\, The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide\, Obsidian\, Poetry\, smartish pace\, and in the anthologies A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poems\, Of Poetry and Protest: Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin\, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South\, The Road Before Us: 100 Black Gay Poets\, and This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets. He has served on award selection committees for the Bronx Council on the Arts\, George Mason University’s Creative Writing Department\, the “One Maryland / One Book” program\, Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest\, and the Publishing Triangle. Involved in library technology and programming for over thirty years\, from Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library to Poets House in Manhattan\, Reginald Harris currently lives in Brooklyn\, where he is a Lead Digital Navigator for the Brooklyn Public Library’s Neighborhood Tech Help service. \n  \n \nKyle Dargan is the author of the poetry collection Anagnorisis (TriQuarterly/Northwestern UP\, 2018)\, which was awarded the 2019 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize andlonglisted for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. His four previous collections\, Honest Engine (2015)\, Logorrhea Dementia (2010)\, Bouquet of Hungers (2007) and The Listening (2003)–were all published by the University of Georgia Press. For his work\, he has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize\, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, and grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. His books have also been finalists for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and the Eric Hoffer Awards Grand Prize. Dargan has partnered with the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities to produce poetry programming at the White House and Library of Congress. He’s worked with and supports a number of youth writing organizations\, such as 826DC\, Writopia Lab\, Young Writers Workshop and the Dodge Poetry high schools program. He is currently an Associate Professor of literature and Asst. Director of creative writing at American University\, as well as the founder and editor of POST NO ILLS magazine. He also works as a Managing Editor for Janelle Monae’s creative company\, Wondaland. Originally from Newark\, New Jersey\, Dargan is a graduate of Saint Benedict’s Prep\, The University of Virginia and Indiana University. \nBooks will be available for sale. A booksigning will follow the conversation. \nReginald Harris Photo Credit: Nicholas Nichols
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-life-of-a-poet-featuring-acclaimed-poet-reginald-harris-in-conversation-with-poet-editor-kyle-dargan/
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SUMMARY:Readin' & Rockin' Featuring GRAMMY-Nominated Musician Paul Burch in Conversation with former NPR host Melissa Block.
DESCRIPTION:In-person Register HereBurch Discusses his new Novel Meridian Rising about Country Music Legend Jimmie Rodgers and Sings a Few Songs Too! \n“Jimmie Rodgers comes a-yodelin’ out of Paul Burch’s novel as if he were with us today. This is a tour de force of musical imagination.”\n—Roy Blount Jr.\, author of Save Room for Pie \n“Paul Burch has made up the truth of Jimmie Rodgers’s life better than any mere ‘facts’ could ever convey—even though you’d have to be in possession of a million biographical facts to pull off this kind of vernacular Huck Finn sleight-of-hand prose magic. I suspect the sleight-of-hand has something to do with the fact that Burch is a musician himself. He played his tune in the key of rollicky\, mixed in with all the sadness. From start to end\, I didn’t hear a false note on the page. From start to end\, this felt like such an authentic American story\, in sore need of a new telling.”\n—Paul Hendrickson\, author of Hemingway’s Boat \nKnown for “Blue Yodel (T for Texas)\,” “Waiting for a Train\,” and “In the Jailhouse Now\,” Jimmie Rodgers’s impact on American music is incalculable. Paul Burch’s bio-fictional tale of the short and poignant life of the “Father of Country Music” includes an imagined first-person memoir\, accompanied by spirited\, hilarious\, and often conflicting recollections of Jimmie’s family and music colleagues\, along with period black-and-white illustrations. \nBorn in 1897 in Meridian\, Mississippi\, Rodgers remains the only artist voted into the Rock & Roll\, Country\, Blues\, and Songwriters Halls of Fame. Generations of fans from B. B. King and Johnny Cash to George Harrison and Dolly Parton recall a Rodgers record as the first music played in their home. But his fame extended far beyond America to Africa\, Ireland\, England\, Australia\, and Russia. His disciples include Robert Johnson\, Bob Dylan\, John Prine\, the Clash’s Joe Strummer\, Jack White\, and anyone over the last century who has picked up a guitar to sing about life and the world around it. \nMeridian Rising is at once an immersive tale and a brilliant literary puzzle\, deftly blending history and fiction to create a vibrant alternative life-tale of the entertainer Howling Wolf called “my man that I really dug.” Written with the knowledge and sensitivity of a touring musician who has traveled many of the same roads and stages\, Meridian Rising engages the reader in a quest for truth while confronting the deceptions that live within our deepest relationships. \nPaul Burch\, a native of Washington\, D.C.\, is a writer\, composer\, and recording artist. As a musician\, Burch put out an album in 2016 about Rodgers that received widespread acclaim. Afterwards\, he moved on to other projects\, but Jimmie’s story had its hooks in him\, revealing itself not as another album but in Jimmie’s voice in prose. The result is a rollicking story of the kind of figure that has become a cultural archetype as well as a hero to some of the best artists of our time: Bob Dylan\, Howling Wolf\, Dolly Parton\, Jack White—the list goes on.  Burch has produced numerous albums with his band the WPA Ballclub\, including Last of My Kind\, a companion to Tony Earley’s best-selling novel Jim the Boy\, as well as a musical version of Meridian Rising. In addition\, Burch has produced recordings with Mark Knopfler\, Ralph Stanley\, Lambchop\, and Charlie Louvin\, which received a GRAMMY nomination. Learn more at paulburch.com. \nMelissa Block is an American radio host and journalist. She co-hosted NPR‘s All Things Considered news program from 2003 until August 14\, 2015. In August 2015 she became a Special Correspondent for NPR\, responsible for detailed profiles of newsworthy figures\, and long-form stories and series on topical issues.  She retired from NPR in 2023. Block began her NPR career in 1985 as an editorial assistant for All Things Considered and rose to become the show’s senior producer. From 1994 to 2002\, she was a New York reporter and correspondent for NPR. Her reporting after the September 11 attacks helped earn NPR a Peabody Award in 2001. \nIn 2008\, Block was recording an interview in Chengdu\, China\, when the area was struck by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake. Her earthquake coverage earned her a Peabody Award\, a duPont-Columbia Award\, a National Headliner Award\, and the Society of Professional Journalists‘ Sigma Delta Chi Award. Her  reporting from Kosovo in 1999 for NPR won an Overseas Press Club Award. \n 
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