Politics & Government

County Launches TV Show 'Mosaic,' Honors Late Roscoe Nix

The 30-minute cable show will focus on African-American community topics.

 

Kicking off with a 30-minute tribute to , Montgomery County’s newest cable show, “Mosaic: An African American Perspective,” will focus on topics relevant to black people.

The show will be hosted by Deborah Milo, who will discuss different topics and interview different leaders each month.

The premiere show, to air Monday, April 23 at 1:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., talks about Nix's life and work. Nix was the second black person to serve on the Board of Education when he was elected in 1974. He was president of the county’s NAACP for 10 years and co-founder of the Montgomery County African American Festival of Academic Excellence, which recognizes African-American students.

Guests for the first show include Odessa Shannon, who became the first black woman elected to the school board in 1982, Ruby Rubens, former fair housing manager for Montgomery County, and Dr. Paul Vance, former superintendent of public schools for the county.

On Nix’s legacy, which includes a Hillandale elementary school named in his honor, Vance said, “The one thing that Roscoe convinced me of is ‘you are one, you can do it, you don’t need an army following behind you.’

“He waged many a battle initially where he wasn’t the most popular chap in the room,” Vance continued.

“I knew Roscoe when he started to run for the Board of Education,” Shannon said on the show. “That was a period of Montgomery County’s history that I’d like to erase, to be quite frank.”

“Mosaic” will air on channel 6 on Comcast and RCN cable systems and channel 30 on Verizon. Head to the county website for show times and schedules.


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