Tomorrow, Feb. 25, is the conclusion of York Public Library’s four-part Forum on Race and Equity with Maine-based Racial Equity and Reconciliation Advocate Dustin Ward.
The forum has been informative, powerful, enlightening, and humbling. In the first three forum sessions, Ward shared his personal experiences of racism as a Person of Color growing up in Maine, a state in which the population is 95% white (Fact: We are tied with Vermont as being “the Whitest” State).
In his talks, Ward has discussed the reality of Black life in America and racist structures that pervade society (in education, healthcare, housing, the economy, and the justice system, to name a few). He’s asked attendees thought-provoking questions and offered warm encouragement all the way as we continue or more likely, begin our antiracist journeys.