{"id":397070,"date":"2019-02-24T16:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-5-house-democrats-took-60000-trip-to-south-africa-for-beyonce-concert-records-show\/"},"modified":"2019-02-24T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T15:13:10","slug":"prison-planet-com-5-house-democrats-took-60000-trip-to-south-africa-for-beyonce-concert-records-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-5-house-democrats-took-60000-trip-to-south-africa-for-beyonce-concert-records-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb 5 House Democrats took $60,000 trip to South Africa for Beyonc\u00e9 concert, records show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democratic-house-reps-took-60000-trip-to-south-africa-for-beyonce-concert\"><strong>Fox News<\/strong><\/a><br \/>February 24, 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><strong>Five members of the Congressional Black Caucus took a $60,000 trip to see Beyonc\u00e9 and other stars perform in concert in South Africa late last year, according to congressional disclosure records.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The lawmakers were U.S. Reps. Gregory Meeks of New York,\u00a0Barbara Lee of California, Bobby Rush of Illinois, Terri Sewell of Alabama and Hank Johnson of Georgia, according to the data.<\/p>\n<p>They attended the \u201cGlobal Citizen Mandela 100\u201d concert from Dec. 1-3 to celebrate the centenary birth of the late Nelson Mandela and raise awareness of global poverty. In addition to Beyonc\u00e9, other musical acts included her husband Jay Z, Ed Sheeran, Pharrell Williams and Chris Martin.<\/p>\n<p><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers appeared in a photo that the Rev. Al Sharpton, who also attended the event, posted on his Twitter page.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m in South Africa headed to the Global Citizen Festival with Congressional Black Caucus members Greg Meeks, Barbara Lee, Bobby Rush &amp; Hank Johnson &amp; my <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MSNBC<\/a> colleague Joy Reid. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GlobalCitizenFestivalSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GlobalCitizenFestivalSA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vnYAbI8J09\">pic.twitter.com\/vnYAbI8J09<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRevAl\/status\/1069266045834354688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democratic-house-reps-took-60000-trip-to-south-africa-for-beyonce-concert\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Sunday, February 24, 2019  at  5:08 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/5-house-democrats-took-60000-trip-to-south-africa-for-beyonce-concert-records-show.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/5-house-democrats-took-60000-trip-to-south-africa-for-beyonce-concert-records-show.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox NewsFebruary 24, 2019 Five members of the Congressional Black Caucus took a $60,000 trip to see Beyonc\u00e9 and other stars perform in concert in South Africa late last year, according to congressional disclosure records. 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Gregory Meeks of New York,\u00a0Barbara Lee of California, Bobby Rush of Illinois, Terri Sewell of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}