‘March on the Mansion’ slated for Saturday at Capitol
2/22/2019, 6 a.m.
Five state and national groups will host a public rally and march this weekend to continue to press Gov. Ralph S. Northam to resign in the wake of his blackface scandal.
The “March on the Mansion” will be 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, with a rally at the State Capitol followed by a march to the nearby Executive Mansion, where the governor lives, it has been announced.
The event will feature speeches from representatives of the five groups, including the Rev. William Avon Keen, president of the Virginia Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and the Rev. Kevin L. Chandler, president of the Virginia State Conference NAACP.
Other scheduled speakers are the Rev. Dean Nelson, chairman of the faith-based Douglass Leadership Institute in Greenbelt, Md.; Catherine Davis, founder and president of The Restoration Project, an Atlanta-based anti-abortion group; and Elaine Reddick, founder, chair and executive director of the Rebecca Project for Justice, a Marietta, Ga., -based group that fights sex trafficking and violence against women.
Details: Dee Dee Bass Wilbon, (703) 888-9421, or Andrew Shannon, (757) 877-0792 or (757) 218-8157.
