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Maxine Waters and the Call for Trump's Impeachment By Stacy M. Brown WI Senior Writer
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momentum, taking on economic injustice and institutional racism. And while many of its active leaders are lesbians and feminists, it has not developed into a movement that addresses issues more relevant for the LGBGTQ community. Instead, its leaders have used social media to their advantage, organizing local chapters across the U.S. while sharing a broad political agenda. More to their credit, the movement has served as an inclusive forum that welcomes a wide spectrum of the Black community. Consider the words of Frederick
Rep. Maxine Waters spoke passionately to a group of mostly young people at Busboy and Poets about her contempt for President Donald Trump. The veteran California Democrat has walked back her comments on her call to impeach the 45th president. However, she offered a pointed rebuke of Trump. "We've got to stop his [behind]," Waters, 78, said last week at the restaurant in Northwest. Waters, 78, said. "We have to do it, everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it." Later, Waters told MSNBC that allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government need to be investigated. Newsmax noted that when asked if there should be a wait to call for impeachment until there are answers, Waters insisted: "I have not called for impeachment." "Here's what I've said," Waters said. "I've said that we need the information, we need to connect the dots, we need the facts in order to do the impeachment. And, I'm going to work every day to try and help get those facts and to reveal them … to our public until, of course, impeachment has taken place." Still Waters' outspokenness has made her a viral sensation as she continues her public undressing of the president and, as noted by The Huffington Post, she even
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Sidnee King, a 20 year-old broadcast journalism student at Howard University, admitted that she was nervous about her summer plans the day before the 2016 “Discover the Unexpected” (DTU) journalism fellows were announced. King said that she missed the DTU program launch on March 23, when officials from the Na-
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5 The Washington Nationals honor the winners of the Washington Informer Spelling Bees during a pre-game
ceremony. Pictured (from left) are Dr Elizabeth Primas, spelling bee judge; Jude Martin, 2nd place winner in DC; Robert Foster, 3rd place winner in DC; Margaret Isacson, winner of the DC Bee; and Kelly Han, winner of the Prince George’s County Bee; and Ron Burke, Washington Informer director of advertising. /Photo by John DeFreitas
Black Lives Matter: Three Years on America's Scene By D. Kevin McNeir WI Editor and Sarafina Wright WI Staff Writer
5Howard University sophomores Alexa Imani Spencer (2nd from left) and Noni Marshall (2nd from right) were selected for the 2017 NNPA Discover The Unexpected Journalism Fellowship program. Gracie Lawson-Borders, the dean of the School of Communications at Howard University (left) and Tatyana Hopkins, a staff writer for The Washington Informer and former DTU Fellow (right) joined them in the photo. (Freddie Allen/AMG/NNPA)
It’s been just over three years since Opal Tometi, Patrice Cullors and Alecia Garza, three same-gender-loving activists angered at the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the “neighborhood watch” volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, 17, created the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter. Since then, in a society punctuated by police violence and firmly established racism, the Black Lives Matter [BLM] movement gained
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