Brittany Ann Byuarm "Bree" Newsome Bass was born on May 13,1985 and is an American filmmaker, musician, speaker, and activist from Charlotte, North Carolina.
14 Facts About Bree Newsome
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Bree Newsome is best known for her act of civil disobedience on June 27,2015, when she was arrested for removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state house grounds in the aftermath of the Charleston church shooting.
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Bree Newsome studied film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
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Bree Newsome's film Wake has won numerous awards, including the Outstanding Independent Short Film award in the Black Reel Awards of 2012 and the Best Short Film at the BET Urban World Film Festival.
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Bree Newsome was the first African-American undergraduate to be nominated for the prestigious Wasserman Award.
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Bree Newsome said that her experience as a black woman working in the horror and sci-fi film genres inspired her to become an activist.
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Bree Newsome was arrested in July 2013 at a sit-in at the office of then North Carolina House Speaker Thom Tillis while protesting North Carolina's voter ID law.
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Bree Newsome's act of civil disobedience made international headlines and television news.
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NAACP chapter president Reverend Doctor William Barber II applauded Bree Newsome's action, comparing it to those of Rosa Parks and other icons of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Bree Newsome's actions were criticized by several South Carolina legislators who said that they were in favor of the flag's removal, but illegal actions like Bree Newsome's could hurt their goal to have the flag permanently removed.
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Several days after her arrest, Bree Newsome released a statement to Blue Nation Review revealing what propelled her to act.
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In February 2016, Bree Newsome told Ebony magazine that she had been motivated in part by her ancestors having been enslaved and subjected to racial terrorism in South Carolina.
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Bree Newsome has continued to speak on race-related issues such as affirmative action.
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Bree Newsome has given interviews to newspapers and magazines such as The Crisis, Vox, and Marie Claire, made television appearances, and given public speeches at colleges and other venues.