Hawk Newsome
American political activist
Walter "Hawk" Newsome is an American law school graduate.
Biography
Newsome worked as a paralegal for the Bronx District Attorney's Office and also worked as a project manager at the law firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker. He unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the New York City Council from The Bronx, garnering around 3% of the vote on a platform Newsome said was "too radical". He subsequently co-founded Black Lives Matter of Greater New York with Chivona Newsome. Chivona later stepped down from the group to run for a U.S. House seat in The Bronx.
In 2017 Newsome attended the Mother of All Rallies in Washington, DC. He was invited onstage by Tommy Hodges, the rally organizer, to speak for two minutes; Hodges told Newsome "Whether they disagree or agree with your message is irrelevant. It's the fact that you have the right to have the message". Newsome tried to connect with the crowd, saying "I am the president of Black Lives Matter New York. I am an American. And the beauty of America is that when you see something broken in your country, you can mobilize to fix it".
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