{"id":3325,"date":"2024-07-30T12:27:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2024-07-30T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T17:35:26","slug":"nabj-president-ken-lemon-addresses-donald-trumps-upcoming-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/nabj-president-ken-lemon-addresses-donald-trumps-upcoming-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"NABJ President Ken Lemon addresses Donald Trump\u2019s upcoming appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Khenedi Wright<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former President Donald Trump accepted an invitation to the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, the organization announced late Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nabjonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NABJonline.org<\/a>\u00a0the former president will be in attendance on the first day of the convention Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump will participate in a conversation moderated by Rachel Scott, Harris Faulkner, and Kadia Goba. NABJ President Ken Lemon says that an invitation was sent to both presidential candidates and so far only one has accepted the offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were careful about making sure that certain people were involved just because we know they have a reputation of getting answers to questions,\u201d Lemon said when asked about journalistic honesty and factual information. \u201cIn addition to that, we are now working and &#8230;trying to rush to get in is because we&#8217;re working on trying to make sure that as he speaks, we fact check.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>You can watch Lemon&#8217;s full response below<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NABJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NABJ<\/a> President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kenlemonnabj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kenlemonnabj<\/a>\u2019s response to Presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> accepting NABJ\u2019s invitation: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MinCqC7KyW\">pic.twitter.com\/MinCqC7KyW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NABJ Monitor (@NABJMonitor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NABJMonitor\/status\/1818328153573487019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Khenedi Wright Former President Donald Trump accepted an invitation to the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago, the organization announced late Monday night. According to\u00a0NABJonline.org\u00a0the former president will be in attendance on <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/nabj-president-ken-lemon-addresses-donald-trumps-upcoming-appearance\/\" title=\"NABJ President Ken Lemon addresses Donald Trump\u2019s upcoming appearance\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-multimedia","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}