First Black Women to Cover the White House Are Honored in the Briefing Room Alice Dunnigan and Ethel L. Payne had to fight sexism and racism to cover one of the most prominent beats in the world.

The Vision 21 Conference Room is in Room 7150 on the seventh floor of Beering Hall. Cramped at the end of the philosophy department’s long hallway of offices and meeting rooms, with black signs ...