Tanisha Sullivan, president of the NAACP Boston Branch and a native of Brockton, Mass., will be honored as the New England Revolution’s “Hero of the Match” for their meeting with the Philadelphia Union on Thursday, August 20, at Gillette Stadium.
Revolution players will wear special C.H.A.N.G.E. patches on their jerseys for Thursday’s match, and those jerseys will then be auctioned off with proceeds to benefit NAACP Boston.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – From a young age, Tanisha Sullivan knew that she would never sit idly by, but would instead play a leading role in the fight for equality and racial justice in the Boston area.