Alice Dunnigan and Ethel L. Payne, first Black female White House reporters, honored with eponymous lectern
The names of the first Black female White House reporters live on with the designation of a new press room lectern in their honor.
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The names of the first Black female White House reporters live on with the designation of a new press room lectern in their honor.
As President Biden eyes a re-election campaign, he is giving all indications of sticking with the less-is-more approach that he took in 2020 and has carried over to the White House.
"It should be that this is a forum for people to ask difficult questions Monday through Friday," Psaki said of her approach to the job.
By CBS News NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made history when she stepped behind the podium in the James S. Brady Briefing Room on Wednesday afternoon, becoming just the second African-American woman to lead a formal White House press briefing and the first in 30 years. "It's a real honor to be standing here today. I appreciate the historic nature, I really do. But I believe that being behind this podium, being in this room, being in this building, is not about one person. It's about what...
Deputy White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday will command the White House podium and room filled with reporters.