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Why is your Colin making you Uncomfortable

May 7, 2020September 3, 2016 by Guest Poster

Today’s post is written by a very special contributor, L. David Stewart, MBA, MSRE, a Black man who also happens to be my brother. As a Black man, he has words that I believe need to be heard.  Race is for me is never as simply as the proverbial “black and white.” Folks I know on …

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Categories class, Commentary, Racial and Cultural

Lemons to Life and the Raising of the Collective Chorus

May 23, 2017August 22, 2016 by Shay

Living in Maine has been and continues to be one of the largest challenges in my life. Since my arrival in 2002, the sense of isolation and the racial homogeneity has at times threatened to take me to a very dark place. Yet my responsibilities to family and specifically my children have required me to …

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Categories Commentary, Maine, Racial and Cultural 1 Comment

This weight, this pain…a vent of sorts

November 13, 2017July 11, 2016 by Shay

When your day job is running the longest continuously running anti-racism organization in the country (we are a scrappy ‘lil org that gets by on passion and sweat) and you just so happen to inhabit a Black body while living in a very white state while the country is imploding racially…matters of race are never …

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Categories Commentary, Current Events, Racial and Cultural 4 Comments
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