Do Black Lives Matter In The Valley-Part II: A WHMP Community Forum

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Monte

Do Black Lives Matter in the Valley? Part Two.

Our community forum on the impact of the local Black Lives Matter movement, held Tuesday evening April 26th at 6pm, live from the Parlor Room in Northampton.
Guest panelists:

Northampton Police Chief Jody Kasper
Amherst School Committee Chair Trevor Baptiste
Paulo Freire School of Justice student Marcus Rosario
Northampton resident and target of racial injustice Aisha Diallo
“Say Something” campaign director Laura Penney of Safe Passage
And an inmate of color from the Hampshire County House of Corrections.

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