By relying on that limited finding, Rotenstein said, Purple Line planners failed to consider the bridge’s value as the “connective tissue” between historically black and white communities.

three small "Be The Bridge" discussion groups would eventually take shape -- two made up of members of Hope and Bethel, and a third the Strausses launched outside the church with White and Black ...

A new bridge that opened in Montgomery County, Maryland, Friday unites two neighborhoods that were once divided into Black and white. Patricia Tyson, a lifelong resident of the historically Black ...