U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) filled the Ritz Carlton banquet hall on Thursday, June 22 for the 81st annual St. Louis County NAACP Freedom Fund Leadership Dinner. Waters, a Kinloch native, received a Margaret Bush Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award, along with former Missouri Governor Bob Holden. John Gaskin, III, Freedom Fund dinner chair, said that Waters has led the way in “opposing the oppressive and the discriminatory practices and language of both candidate and President Donald J. Trump.”