Mayor Levar M. Stoney speaks to the crowd of about 70 people at last Saturday’s “The Urgency of Now Rally” sponsored by the Virginia State Conference NAACP at the Bell Tower at the State Capitol. The group also was celebrating the national NAACP’s 113th birthday. The organization was founded Feb. 12,1909.
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Rally speakers criticize efforts to sanitize nation’s racial history
Members of the Virginia State Conference NAACP and other activists gathered last Saturday at Capitol Square to share concerns and criticisms of the efforts by Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin to restrict voting rights, and end mask mandates and ban the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.
