Shay 
There was a time that pretty much whenever I had a racist encounter, I would write about it. Over the years though, as I have gotten older, I made the conscious choice to not always write about them—unless they were particularly egregious. My personal pain, humiliation, and rage don’t always need to be witnessed and …
In my 15 years of running Black Girl in Maine, only once have I ever done a Go Fund Me-style campaign, and that was a few years into blogging, when my laptop unexpectedly died. However, life recently has thrown enough curveballs at me—namely in the form of my health—that I realized that pride cometh before …
In my last post, I wrote about a recent neo-Nazi rally in Portland, Maine. For non-locals and those not following the story, the city and police department’s response has been less than satisfying. No arrests were made, despite clear footage and individual accounts of violence. Why? According to the police, they were unable to assess …