“We been out in the suburbs way, way too long,” Lomax said at the historic Lincoln Theatre, where he shared the stage with D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, District Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, developers and a host of other key players in the approximately $150 million project known as Progression Place.
Lomax told the audience of hundreds that when UNCF moved from New York City to its current site in Fairfax, Va., 17 years ago, it was to position the organization closer to the “hub of the national education policy conversation.”
