Dr. Kumea Shorter-Gooden at Race Relations Forum (Video)

More than 200 residents turned out for a town hall meeting on police and race relations hosted by the County on July 20th at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. In the MyMCMedia Extra videos below, residents share personal stories about interactions with the police and their concerns about race relations in the county.

Hundreds of residents turned out for a town hall meeting on police and race relations hosted by the County at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. In the MyMCMedia Extra videos, below, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett and County Councilmember Craig Rice address residents and offer their perspective on the issue.  

More than 200 residents packed the room at the BlackRock Center for the Arts for a town hall meeting on police and race relations hosted by the County on Wednesday night. It was the second town hall held this week. Panelists included, Police Chief Tom Manger, Montgomery County Council President Nancy Floreen, Montgomery County branch of […]

UPDATED 7.20.16 The location of the second meeting has been changed and will take place at the BlackRock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town Commons Drive in Germantown. The Montgomery County Office of Human Rights in coalition with the Montgomery County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Faith Community Working […]

Montgomery College hosted a People of Color and U.S Criminal Justice Forum to talk about race relations and the county’s police force. Aline Barros has the report.

In this MyMCMedia extra, Chief Tom Manger addresses a question posed at a forum on race relations in Montgomery County. The question: “Do you think a Trayvon Martin type incident occur in Montgomery County?” For more coverage see our earlier posts:      

In this MyMCMedia extra, Montgomery County Councilmember George Leventhal makes some brief remarks at the start of a Feb. 1 community forum that explored racial, ethnic and community relations in our county. The forum was hosted jointly by the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission and the City of Rockville Human Rights Commission. The discussion began […]

Do you think a Trayvon Martin-type incident could occur in Montgomery County? That was the hot-button question posed to six panelists and dozens of community members at a joint commission public forum held at the Executive Office Building (EOB) in Rockville on Feb. 1. The forum was presented by the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission, […]

In this MyMCMedia extra, Dr. Kumea Shorter-Gooden, a panelist at a race relations forum held in Rockville, addresses the audience. Take a look: Related posts: