Dr. Bobbie Legg, Descendant of Lynching Perpetrator, Shares Reflections
A public recognition ceremony on Friday, May 16, marked the completion of the County’s lynching commemoration site in Rockville. The ceremony featured an address by Dr. Bobbie Legg, a Montgomery County native and descendant of one of the perpetrators of the 1896 lynching of Sidney Randolph. Randolph was lynched on July 4, 1896.
Statement on White Supremacy
Because of repeated attacks on Black history and the truth, the MoCoLMP Steering Committee believes it necessary to restate our...
Reflections: On the 5th Anniversary of George Floyd's Murder
The killing of George Floyd on Monday May 25, 2020 was a seismic event in American history, but not because it was unusual. White folks in the New World have been killing Blacks for hundreds of years. What was different about Floyd’s killing was how unapologetically brazen and flagrant it was. And how visible....