I need some help getting info about Bree Newsome for introduction assignment for English?​

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Newsome was the first African-American undergraduate to be nominated for the prestigious Wasserman Award (Spike Lee having won the award as a graduate student). Newsome said that her experience as a black woman working in the horror and sci-fi film genres inspired her to become an activist.

Brittany Ann Byuarim "Bree" Newsome Bass (born May 13, 1985) is an American filmmaker, musician, speaker, and activist from Charlotte, North Carolina. She 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. The resulting publicity put pressure on state officials to remove the flag, and it was taken down permanently on July 10, 2015.

Newsome considers herself to be both an artist and an activist, and has said that artists telling the truth about the world is itself a form of activism. After college, she became an artist-in-residence at Saatchi & Saatchi, a New York advertising agency. She also guest taught high schoolers for a film program in the Bronx.

Achievements

• Outstanding Independent Short Film award, Black Reel Awards of 2012

• Best Short Film at the BET Urban World Film Festival

• NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award, presented by NAACP chairwoman Roslyn Brock on February 5, 2016

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I got some info from Wikipidedia and Biography.com. :)