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The visit will be coordinated by the president of the Chamber of Commerce and Assembly member, Steven Bradford.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Dominican leader met individual Caucus members and leaders of the black community of Los Angeles involved in commerce, politics, culture and social issues.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The Black Caucus is comprised of US Congress people who promote legislation that helps and assists the needs of the country\u2019s black population, known as African-American for their African roots.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Those who took part in the meeting include Charisse Bremond-Weaver, president and executive &nbsp;director of Brotherhood Crusade; Charmaine Jefferson, executive&nbsp; director of the Afro-American Museum of California; James Chitty, executive director Altomec; Hesham Elswify, president of Omni Protective Services; Angela Gibson, president of the Afro-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Los Angeles;&nbsp;Hakika Keith, executive&nbsp; director of Sweet Strings; Gwen Moore, president and executive&nbsp; director &nbsp;GEM Communications, among others. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 border=0 alt=\"OEA auspicia taller de conservaci\u00f3n y restauraci\u00f3n de monumentos\" src=\"\/Portal\/noticias\/caucus_2010.jpg\" width=500><\/P><br \/>\n<P><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 border=0 alt=\"OEA auspicia taller de conservaci\u00f3n y restauraci\u00f3n de monumentos\" src=\"\/Portal\/noticias\/caucus2_2010.jpg\" width=500><\/P><br \/>\n<P>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD vAlign=top><\/TD><br \/>\n<TD vAlign=top><\/TD><br \/>\n<TD class=texto vAlign=top align=right><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><BR><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Meets with Members of the Congressional Black Caucus Santo Domingo, 30\/9\/2010 Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus wherein they exchanged ideas and discussed cooperation between the Dominican Republic and organizations and institutions in Los Angeles. The meeting, arranged by Congress woman and activist Diane Watson, touched on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti2766\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;President Meets with Members of the Congressional Black Caucus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}