Pam Horowitz, the widow of Julian Bond, sits outside the Chevy Chase Community Center in the District, where she, friends and the Advisory Neighborhood Commission seek to install a memorial bench for the late civil rights leader. “I’ve had second thoughts on the bench,” Dormsjo, an appointee of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), wrote in a May 18 email to a neighborhood leader. “It was yes, and then, out of the blue, it was no,” said Cheh, who represents Chevy Chase. “Julian always wanted a bench, he talked about a bench,” Horowitz said. !’ and he’d say, ‘Every day!’ ” recalled Aviva Kempner, a documentary filmmaker and a Bond friend who resides in the neighborhood.

Source: Washington Post May 24, 2017 20:45 UTC