It will be 100 years almost to the day from when the Garden State first hosted the national convention.
Kaleem Shabazz, president of the Atlantic City Branch of the NAACP, visits the Atlantic City Convention Center with Atlantic City NAACP Vice President Yolanda N. Melville and Constance Days-Chapman, principal of Atlantic City High School and an NAACP member. The 113th NAACP National Convention will convene in Atlantic City from July 14 to 20.After Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968, the Rev. DeForest “Buster” Soaries Jr.
“It was at that moment that I said, ‘I better get to know more about Martin Luther King, Jr.’ because I wanted my life to be as impactful on somebody as his life was on my grandmother’s,” said Soaries, 70. “Every day since April 4, 1968, everything I’ve ever done, has been in pursuit of that commitment.”
It’s also been over a decade since Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President and two years since Vice President Kamala Harris made history by becoming the first woman and Black and Asian American to hold that office. When Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn inlast month, she also made history as the first Black woman to serve on the high court.
“I see America at a very important crossroads,” said Marcus Sibley, the NAACP New Jersey State Conference environmental and climate justice chair, who helped organize a panel at the convention. The convention will be the fourth time the NAACP’s national gathering will be held in New Jersey and the first time since 2019 that it will be held in person after virtual gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Trovon Williams, the national NAACP spokesman.
Soaries, an influential pastor with a long history in New Jersey, says he’s seen the nation change from a bevy of perspectives. He’s been the leader of one of Central Jersey’s largest churches, an activist who saw King as a teen and later worked alongside Rev. Jesse Jackson and the former Secretary of State of New Jersey under Gov. Christine Todd Whitman.
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