A screengrab from the Norwalk NAACP website.
NORWALK, Conn. Norwalk NAACP members are expected to choose next month between challenger Jalin Sead and incumbent Brenda Penn-Williams in a delayed election for the local branch presidency.
Penn-Williams, who’s been president since 2016, said Wednesday that she doesn’t know why the national NAACP took over the local branch’s election, which is ordinarily held in November.
“Folks called to contest it,” she said.
Norwalk Branch NAACP President Brenda Penn-Williams in 2017, at the organization’s Freedom Fund Banquet. (File photo)
“I first want to thank all of the members for sticking through this unusual process,” said Sead, who unsuccessfully took on Penn-Williams in 2016, when then-President Darnell Crosland stepped down.