{"id":232764,"date":"2026-05-15T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232764\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:43:38","slug":"brooklyns-pdpa-honors-nj-rep-lamonica-mciver-with-woman-of-courage-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232764\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn\u2019s PDPA honors NJ Rep. LaMonica McIver with \u2018Woman of Courage Award\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>New Jersey Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, the first Black woman to represent New Jersey\u2019s 10th Congressional District and the youngest ever to be elected to the United States House of Representatives from the \u201cGarden State,\u201d was honored with the \u201cWoman of Courage Award\u201d by the Brooklyn-based Progressive Democratic Political Association (PDPA) during its 32nd Women Celebrating Women 2026 Sapphire Awards.<\/p>\n<p>The gala ceremony took place at El Caribe Country Club, on Strickland Avenue, in Brooklyn, on May 3.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caribbeanlife.com\/brooklyn-pdpa-new-jersey-lamonica-mciver\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Caribbean Life &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tBrooklyn\u2019s PDPA honors NJ Rep. LaMonica McIver with \u2018Woman of Courage Award\u2019 &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; New Jersey Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, the first Black woman to represent New Jersey\u2019s 10th Congressional District and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-232764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}