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CAPE FEAR MEMORIAL BRIDGE CLOSURE: UPDATES, RESOURCES, AND CONTEXT

WHQR'S Fundraising Luncheon with Cokie Roberts is Full - Thank You Everyone

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Wednesday, June 3 at 12 PM

Grand Ballroom at the Hilton Riverside

Cokie Roberts, NPR's award-winning journalist, television anchor and correspondent on Morning Edition, is coming to the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton Riverside to speak at a WHQR fundraiser luncheon on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Cokie will talk about her career and new book (Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868) and share favorite stories from her years at NPR. 

At NPR Roberts previously served as the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming. 

From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. In her more than forty years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting.

In addition to her appearances on the airwaves, Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media. The Roberts are also contributing editors to USA Weekend Magazine, and together they wrote New York Times bestseller, From this Day Forward, following Roberts' number one bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, an account of women's roles and relationships throughout American history.

Cokie Roberts holds more than twenty honorary degrees, serves on the boards of several non-profit institutions and on the President's Commission on Service and Civic Participation. This year the Library of Congress named her a "Living Legend," one of the very few Americans to have attained that honor. She is the mother of two and grandmother of six.

An invitation to host a table or join a WHQR table and more information are available by emailing Mary Bradley at mbradley@whqr.org. We ask for a suggested donation of $100 or more per guest at the luncheon (payable by cash, check or credit card). EVENT FULL - NO MORE RESERVATIONS AVAILABLE.

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