Maine Reckoning reflects on the lives of Black Mainers since the George Floyd murder, asking a key question: Has anything changed?

Maine Reckoning reflects on the lives of Black Mainers since the George Floyd murder, asking a key question: Has anything changed?
Vincent Edwards talks about the experience of moving to Maine and building a life here at the beginning of the pandemic.
“If you want change, if you want something to happen, you have to say something about it. You can’t just expect for it to happen.”
Maine Reckoning reflects on the lives of Black Mainers since the George Floyd murder, asking a key question: Has anything changed? Episode three features Portland students Ruby and Ellis Jenkins-Henry.
Maine Reckoning reflects on the lives of Black Mainers since the George Floyd murder, asking a key question: Has anything changed? Episode two features Jill Duson, a respected, long-time leader in Portland government, social policy and politics. ‘It’s important to take action, not credit,’ Duson says.
Episode one features Dustin Ward, a racial justice and reconciliation advocate who also serves on the New Gloucester town select board.
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