Montgomery County shouldn’t pave over a Black community’s past

Today, the strip of River Road that was the subject of a recent ruling by the Maryland Supreme Court is known to most visitors for its cheap gas, fast food and hulking apartment complexes. But tucked between an 18-story condominium building and an auto repair shop is a tiny white church with a long history. When the Macedonia Baptist Church opened more than a century ago in Bethesda, its presence there was far from incongruous.