The past five months have been a whirlwind! When I decided to run for public office, I had no idea how much work even a relatively small local campaign would be, nor did I fully grasp how much my life would change. For those who aren’t local or who don’t follow Black Girl in Maine …
As I write this post, it’s been one year since George Floyd was killed, sparking all kinds of protests nationwide and bringing attention to racist police brutality, systemic racism, and the importance of recognizing how Black lives have been devalued. And those protests were on a scale we really hadn’t seen before. It was a …
On May 13, 1985, police bombed the home of a communal group of environmentalists living in west Philadelphia. The members of this group, called “MOVE,” were racial justice and animal rights activists. After their home was bombed and 11 people—including five children—were killed, the only adult to escape, Ramona Africa, was arrested. Take a moment …