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Volume 44, Number 1
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.--THURSDAY, September 7, 2017
Adams, Butterfield:
Impeach Trump
BY CASH MICHAELS
FOR THE CHRONICLE
Now that Congress is back in session,
there are plenty of issues that lawmakers
must address, including raising the nation
al debt ceiling; financial relief for Texas
after the devastation of Hurricane Harvey;
and paying for that wall President Trump
still insists Mexico will ultimately under
write, one way or another.
But amid that spoken agenda is intense
behind-the-scenes strategizing on the part
of the 49-member Congressional Black
Caucus (CBC) to have Republican
President Donald J. Trump impeached.
“When members return to Congress in
September, the CBC will have a robust
discussion on #Impeachment,” an Aug. 22
Rep. G.K. Butterfield
tweet from the CBC announced.
Impeaching a U.S. president is the
process in which a legislative body (con
stitutionally the U.S. House) formally lev
Rep. Alma Adams
els serious charges (indictments) against a
sitting commander-in-chief. It is the first
step toward the removal of a president
from office. If a president is to be removed
(or effectively convicted of said charges),
then the U.S. Senate votes accordingly.
The most recent president to be
impeached was Bill Clinton in December
1998, but the Senate acquitted Clinton in
February 1999.
While things went sour fast between
the CBC and President Trump shortly
after he took office in January, it was
Trump’s moral equivocation between
armed white supremacists and mostly
unarmed counter-protesters in
Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12 - a
violent confrontation which resulted in the
alleged murder of a counter-protester with
a car driven by a neo-Nazi - that con
vinced members of the CBC, along with
See Impeach on A4
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Triad product
Giddens seeks
more black fans
BY TIMOTHY COX
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
NEWPORT, Rhode Island - Musician Rhiannon
Giddens, a native of Greensboro, achieved international
Reclaim in 2010 with a Grammy Award - yet she remains
Somewhat miffed as to why her music has yet to catch-on
with more African-Americans.
Along with her quartet, the Carolina Chocolate Drops,
the self-described “string band” actually formed on the
premise of espousing the fact that African-Americans
were the original purveyors of indigenous American
music styles known as bluegrass and folk.
On New Year’s Eve 2016, she returned to the Triad in
Winston-Salem for a sold-out, solo concert with the
Photo by Tcvin Stinson
Police Chief Catrina Thompson welcomes students with a high five at Kimberley Park Elementary School
last week. On Friday, Sep. 1, Thompson and more than a dozen officers launched an initiative called High
Five Fridays.
New police chief launches
High Five Fridays
Thompson spends first day
connecting with youth
BYTEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE___
Shortly after she was named chief of the Winston
Salem Police Department, Catrina Thompson told The
Chronicle one of her goals would be to cultivate the rela
tionship between the department and local youth in the
community, and she didn’t waste any time doing just that.
On her first official day on the job, Chief Thompson,
and more than a dozen officers, greeted students with
hugs, high fives and words of encouragement when they
launched High Five Fridays at Kimberley Park
Elementary School. Thompson said the initiative is just
one way she plans to develop a healthy relationship with
youth in the community.
Throughout the school year, she plans to make stops at
other schools in the area.
“What better time to start than now,” Thompson said
after welcoming students at the school last Friday morn
ing.
“We want these children to know that we are here for
them. They are the future leaders in this community, so it
is important they know that they have our support.”
Thompson said she decided to kick off the initiative at
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Rhiannon Giddens, right, is joined by tap dancer
Robyn Watson during a rare moment to catch other
acts at the Newport Jazz Festival.
Winston-Salem Orchestra.
Now, she has been nominated for a Country Music
Association (CMA) award for Musical Event Of The
Year for “Kill A Word” by Eric Church and featuring her.
Church grew up in Granite Falls, N.C. (“The 51st Annual
CMA Awards” airs live Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 8 p.m. on
ABC-TV.)
Her 2017 album, “Freedom Highway,” features songs
based on slave narratives from the 1800s, African
American experiences of the last century, and the Civil
Rights Movement of the 1960s. One song is called "At
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