Montgomery Community Media

The Montgomery County Office of Human Rights and M&T Bank are partnering on a new 10-week accelerator program that aims to help small businesses flourish. The program will allow new or minority entrepreneurs to learn aspects such as operating a business, managing finances, building credit, planning a business, and communicating digitally. “Only about half of […]

The Minority, Female, and Disabled-Owned Businesses (MFD) Program aims to provide thousands of local businesses with county contracting opportunities. “These are the types of local small businesses that are the backbone of our economy and who have suffered from lack of contracting diversity in the past,” said County Council President Tom Hucker during his virtual media […]

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has launched GoVAX: Maryland’s COVID-19 vaccine confidence campaign. Hogan called the effort an “aggressive, grassroots public outreach campaign” to encourage vaccine confidence and urge residents to get vaccinated when it’s their turn and doses are available. “Over the next several months, we will be taking this campaign to every corner of […]

It was a packed room at the Annual Minority Legislative Breakfast in Bethesda on Wednesday. Federal, state, and local elected officials as well as member organizations attended the event marking its 19th year. Topics of discussion included the upcoming legislative agenda and its impact on the minority community. The event was jointly hosted by the […]

Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has ordered a disparity study of Maryland’s regulated medical marijuana industry. According to a news release, the governor’s directive is responsive to concerns expressed by the Legislative Black Caucus, regarding diversity in this emerging industry. The Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs will oversee the study, which the governor has directed to […]

Hundreds of Richard Montgomery High School students took to the streets in downtown Rockville on Nov. 16 to demonstrate for freedom of speech. County Cable Montgomery talked to some of those students in this report, below:

A Montgomery College professor has been named Maryland Professor of the Year. MCTV’s Fritzi Bodheimer reports. Visit our PEG partner MCTV10 (Montgomery College Television program schedule) to see more Montgomery College Television.

To highlight a pattern of racial stereotyping, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Students released a video called “I, Too, Am B-CC.” The students also plan to produce “I, Too, Am MCPS.” “They shared things that I was sort of shocked to hear. Things they seem to think as normal to me seemed the opposite,” said Sarah […]

A powerful video, “I, Too, Am B-CC [High School],” explores racial stereotypes at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Montgomery County as students share their personal experiences and opine on their future. Inspired by the social campaign, “I too, am Harvard,” the video is produced by Makdes Hailu and directed and edited by Orlando Pinder. It […]

The theme is “creating new possibilities” through “transformation,” and the Drug Enforcement Administration hopes to do just that with it’s 3rd annual Minority College Relations Student Forum at Montgomery College. The DEA’s Equal Employment Opportunity Staff and its Minority College Relations Program (MCRP) is sponsoring its third annual student forum on April 30, hosted by […]