Barack Obama

Hosts Lonnae O’Neal and Sunny Hostin get insight from town hall attendees

The hourlong meeting answered key questions from shooting victims’ grieving loved ones

Several got to ask the president questions

Obama has repeatedly addressed the gulf between blacks and whites over policing and violence

Obama talks race, policing and respect

‘It’s not meant to suggest that other lives don’t matter.’

He’s tried to console the nation 15 times over seven years

Your guide: President Obama to participate in town hall meeting on race and policing

Blacks and whites see radically different things in the criminal justice system

Memphis, where Martin Luther King Jr. died while helping garbage workers, is an example of talk, no action