Black Girl in Maine - 5 new articles

In 2019, a dear friend was working as the Maine state director for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. I wasn’t initially sold on Bernie as the potential Democratic nominee, but over time, I decided to support the Sanders campaign and even ended up volunteering on the campaign. Then COVID hit and upended the primary season, ...

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I just got off a phone call with a fellow writer friend and former teen mom, who is now in her 40s. It was one of those calls where you plan to hop on for a few minutes, but you look up and realize you have been talking for well over two hours. I love ...

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I have been writing about racism for over two decades now. When I started back in 2003, I never could have imagined that my occasional submissions for local publications would end up altering the course of my professional trajectory and turn me into a low-level public figure. It had always been a dream to write ...

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• Don’t lose hope
• Strange days…and how we celebrate them
• Change starts with connection: Unplug a little and find hope

 

I fear this will be one of the rare times where my age shows as I grapple with sounding very like a “get off the lawn type.” However, in recent weeks, I have found myself realizing that our world is really shifting and while some of the not-so-great shifts we are seeing are the result ...

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The echoes of The Slap still ring through the online halls and in people’s minds. You know what I mean by “The Slap” right? I’m sure most of you do, anyway. It’s probably gonna be many years before too many people forget what it was and who is attached to it. But, for those of ...

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