Three anti-racism organizations in Melrose – Fighting for Black Lives in Our Neighborhood, the Melrose Racial Justice Community Coalition, and Friends of Melrose METCO – hosted racial justice forums for candidates for mayor, city council, and school committee. All candidates were invited to participate. This was an online forum that focused on matters of race and racism. Questions were crowdsourced from the community and provided to candidates before the forum.
The forum for mayoral candidates was Wednesday, August 16 at 7 pm.
The forum for city council candidates was Wednesday, September 20 at 7 pm.
The forum for school committee candidates was Wednesday, October 4 at 7 pm.