Congresswoman Maxine Waters to speak in Cleveland in May 2017 at the Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Caucus brunch with comments herein from CDWC chair Cindy Demsey and Women's March Ohio state director Rhiannon Childs, coupled with a chronology on the beloved and controversial Waters of California, the longest serving Black woman in congress....Waters gained national attention in 1992 relative to the Rodney King verdict and the affiliated LA Riots, and she was recently victimized by ousted FOX News commentator Bill O'Reilly as simply wearing a James Brown wig, though Waters' longtime tenure as a federal lawmaker reveals her commitment to Civil Rights and women's rights, and to disenfranchised groups in general....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannews.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders
Democratic California Congresswoman Maxine Waters (second from left) in her younger years poses with powerful Black women at the first inauguration of former Democratic president Bill Clinton in Washington D.C. in 1993. From left: Famed singer Dionne Warwick, Congresswoman Waters, former Spelman College president Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, poet, actress and Civil Rights activist Dr. Maya Angelou, distinguished actress Cicely Tyson, and former U.S. secretary of labor Alexis Herman. California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, a Los Angeles Democrat and the longest serving Black woman in congress who will keynote the brunch of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Women's Caucus at 11a.m. on Saturday, May 6, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 4 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats re...