ACTON — People in Acton and Boxborough are saying "no" to racism following a virtual school committee meeting in which an anonymous troll posted racist and vulgar comments deeply upsetting two Black board members.
About 90 minutes into a meeting of the Acton-Boxborough Regional School Committee, the anonymous poster used the Q & A function to write the ugly remarks. The comments were only visible to committee members, including its only Black members, Kyra Wilson Cook and Evelyn Abayaah, but were later shared on social media, sparking outrage in the community and leading the Acton Board of Selectmen to hold an emergency meeting the following day, denouncing the incident and calling for a hate crime investigation.