NEW YORK, June 23 (TNSper) -- Enterprise Community Partners issued the following news release: The Board of Trustees of Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise) has elected Rick Lazio to succeed J. Ronald Terwilliger as board chair. Lazio, a four-term United States representative from New York's second district, has been a member of Enterprise's Board of Trustees since 2005 and currently serves as vice chair. Enterprise also elevated to vice chair Phyllis Caldwell, a financial service profess more PR

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 21 -- The International Federation of Journalists issued the following news release: Following the United Kingdom's decision to extradite Julian Assange to face trial in the United States, the International Federation of Journalists' (IFJ) Australian affiliate, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) has called on the Australian Government to take swift steps to lobby for the dismissal of all charges against Assange. The IFJ stands with the MEAA in condemning t more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 (TNSper) -- The U.S. International Trade Commission issued the following news release on June 17, 2022: David S. Johanson today becomes Chair of the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC). He succeeded outgoing Chair Jason E. Kearns, whose term as Chair expired on June 16, 2022. Johanson, the senior Republican on the Commission, became Chair by operation of law in the absence of a Presidential designation. Johanson was nominated to the USITC by President Barack Obama o more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 (TNSper) -- The U.S. State Department issued the following news release: Secretary Blinken announced his selections for the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Since its establishment in 2011, the Board has provided independent advice on the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy, consistent with each Secretary of State and administration's evolving priorities for it. Secretary Blinken has sought to build a diverse board that could advance the De more PR

WASHINGTON, June 22 (TNSreact) -- The Sierra Club issued the following news release on June 21, 2022: Yesterday, the Biden Administration announced a first-of-its kind agreement with tribal Nations to co-manage Bears Ears National Monument. The Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Pueblo of Zuni signed a cooperative agreement to strengthen the management and protec more PR

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pennsylvania, June 24 -- Slippery Rock University issued the following news: "Oh, was your husband a veteran?" is a question people like Kathy Contres are asked when they use a parking spot reserved for veterans or receive other benefits for those who served in the military. "No, I'm the veteran," is how women veterans respond to correct people. "It's been that way forever, but we're finally getting the recognition," said Contres, a former U.S. Navy captain and a 1977 Slippery R more PR

WASHINGTON, June 18 (TNSper) -- The Trust for America's Health issued the following news release: Tekisha Dwan Everette, PhD, MPA will serve as TFAH's Executive Vice President. In this role, she will work in partnership with TFAH's President and CEO to chart and implement the organization's strategic direction and priorities, will provide counsel on current and emerging policy issues, and will engage with key organizations, policymakers, and other partners to advance policy priorities to improv more PR

CANNES, France, June 22 -- The United Nations Development Programme issued the following news release: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and SAWA, the Global Cinema Advertising Association are bringing a ferocious, talking dinosaur to Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, to urge more climate action from global leaders. This first-ever film using computer-generated imagery (CGI) made inside the UN General Assembly is the centerpiece of UNDP's "Don't Choose Extinction more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, June 23 (TNSper) -- Carnegie Mellon University issued the following news: G. Sayeed Choudhury, currently the associate dean for digital infrastructure, applications, and services and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University, will join Carnegie Mellon University Libraries in a newly created role to raise awareness of and stimulate collaboration among open-source projects that take place across the  more PR

LAWRENCE, Kansas, June 21 (TNSbook) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news on June 20, 2022: In the conventional telling of African American literary history, the 1930s are overshadowed, at best, by the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and the social realism/protest novels of the 1940s. But a new volume on the decade marked indelibly by the Great Depression takes a closer look and finds important transitions between one era and the other occasioned by such disparate forces as the more PR