Rep. John Lewis and Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser visited the Black Lives Matter Plaza.
Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, on Sunday visited the Black Lives Matter Plaza together with Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, DC.
This, as Mayor Bowser posted on her Twitter account thanking Rep. John Lewis for joining her at the Black Lives Matter Plaza in front of the White House in Washington, DC.
In her Twitter post, Muriel said that she and Lewis walked the said path before and they will “continue marching on, hand in hand” as they wanted to elevate their voices “until justice and peace prevail”.
We’ve walked this path before, and will continue marching on, hand in hand, elevating our voices, until justice and peace prevail.
— Mayor Muriel Bowser (@MayorBowser) June 7, 2020
Thank you for joining me at Black Lives Matter Plaza, in front of the White House, @repjohnlewis. pic.twitter.com/4l3y4lY4hV
Mayor Bowser said in an interview on Fox that the Black Lives Matter Plaza became “a centering point” and a place for healing, strategizing, and talking, adding that the Black Lives Matter Plaza was also “a place of redress”.
Bowser also said that it was “a right” in the United States wherein citizens across the country came to their nation’s capital in order to deliver their grievances at the footstep of the people’s house.
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