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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Vice President Kamala Harris will address the NAACP 114th National Convention at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center on Saturday.
Harris, the nation's first Black vice president, gave a keynote speech at last year's NAACP convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. This year she will take part in an armchair conversation during the convention's Opening Public Mass Meeting at 4:30 p.m.
The meeting will feature NAACP Board Chairman Leon W. Russell, with an introduction by Representative Jim Clyburn, as well as greetings from Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, NAACP Boston Branch President Tanisha Sullivan, and National Board of Directors member Michael Curry.
Other speakers at this year's convention include former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Congressman Justin Jones, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and literary critic and professor of African American studies Henry Louis Gates Jr.
This is the first time the NAACP National Convention has been held in Boston since 1982.
The convention will run through Tuesday, Aug. 1.
WBZ's Suzanne Sausville (@WBZSausville) spoke with people at the convention center about the issues they want addressed this weekend:
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