Published on December 16, 2020
State Representative Rachel Talbot Ross, Chair of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous and Maine Tribal Populations will join the Cape Elizabeth Civil Rights Committee to discuss the work and recommendations of the commission aimed to ease racial disparities in Maine. She will join the committee during their December 17th Zoom meeting at 7:15 pm.
In a report issued in September, the recommendations include proposed bills closing gaps in health, income, education and incarceration rates, and urges lawmakers to pass them during the upcoming legislative session.
Elected to the Maine Legislature in 2016, Rep. Talbot Ross has led efforts to address criminal justice, education, health and human services and housing. She previously led the Maine NAACP, the Maine Black Community Development, Maine Freedom Trails, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows program.
Talbot Ross says Maine lawmakers should put racial equity and justice "at the heart" of legislative deliberations.
The meeting is open to the public; click the link to join the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/