[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 6, 2014)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     RECOGNIZING MS. AISHA KARIMAH

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                       HON. ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON

                      of the district of columbia

                    in the house of representatives

                          Tuesday, May 6, 2014

  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask my colleagues in the 
House to join me in recognizing Ms. Aisha Karimah, who today is 
observing 45 years in the District of Columbia at NBC4 Washington, 
where she has provided exemplary service to Washington, D.C. and the 
national capital region.
  For more than four decades, Aisha has brilliantly used her talents to 
help NBC4 grow and has championed our city and region and its many 
community campaigns--Beautiful Babies Right from the Start, Drug Free 
Zones, It Takes a Whole Village, Make the Right Call, Camp 4 Kids, Get 
Healthy 4 Life, Backpacks 4 Kids, Food 4 Families, and The NBC4 Health 
& Fitness Expo--we can hardly name even a representative group of 
community causes that Aisha has not touched. Ms. Karimah is a 
particularly positive and dedicated role model for African Americans 
and for women entering journalism and serves as a mentor and confidant 
to hundreds of young people. She has been a wonderful friend and 
guidepost to me since I was elected to Congress in 1990.
  As a veteran television producer, Aisha currently produces two weekly 
news programs: Reporters Notebook and Viewpoint. She has shared her 
talents by also producing programs for Howard University Television, 
including The Urban Health Report, Washington's Leaders and The Randall 
Robinson Program.
  Aisha is a graduate of Howard University and Wesley Theological 
Seminary. She is a proud and devoted mother of two sons: Donnell, a 
graduate of American and George Washington Universities, and Jay, a 
Howard University graduate who is married to Whitney, also a Howard 
graduate, and a cancer survivor.
  Aisha says her life's work has been a labor of love and a blessing, 
``because only God could have taken a girl from the Lincoln Heights 
projects, having grown up on welfare and working at the age of 10 years 
old to a position where she has been able through her work to help make 
a positive difference in the same community in which she grew up.'' 
Notwithstanding serious illness, Aisha Karimah kept going at NBC4. 
Today, we bring Aisha Karimah from behind the scenes to let her take a 
bow for 45 years of beneficial contributions to the District of 
Columbia and the national capital region.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing Ms. Aisha 
Karimah for an extraordinary job well beyond the call of duty for NBC4 
Washington and the national capital region for 45 extraordinary years.

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