James Perkins Mastromarino is Here & Now's Washington, D.C.-based producer. He works with NPR's newsroom on a daily whirlwind of topics that range from Congress to TV dramas to outer space ...

Dr. James W. Perkins was born in Cleveland, Ohio on September 9, 1946 to Joel B and Louise Perkins passed away on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. He is preceded in death by his parents Joel B. and Louise ...

The keynote speaker was James Perkins, the first Black mayor of Selma, Alabama, a city in the center of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1965, it was the start of the 55-mile march to Montgomery ...