Galveston NAACP to Hold Town Hall Meeting

Galveston, TX -- It's time for a sit down. The Galveston chapter of the NAACP will hold a town hall meeting on at 6 p.m. on Monday, July 25.

The meeting, which will be at the Old Central Cultural Center Library, 26217 Avenue M, will focus on working together to develop a plan of action to keep people safe and preventing Galveston from becoming "a statistic," according to a post on the group's Facebook page.

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Galveston Mayor Jim Yarbrough, City Manager Brain Maxwll and Police Chief Richard Doyle are all scheduled to attend the meeting.

The Galveston chapter hopes to formulate a plan that ensures "the safety and well being (equal rights) of our residents and ... eliminate[s] race-based discrimination," according to the group's Facebook post.