HOLLIS – Jamila-Ashanti Scales, a junior at Nashua High School North, on Monday said she has been spat upon, hit, pushed, told she was ugly, and called multiple racial slurs, all just for being African-American.
Published in The Telegraph Jan 22, 2019 (Nashua NH)
“I want my peers not to be afraid to take a stand. I want them to know every time they don’t speak up, they are saying it’s OK,” Scales said during the 35th Annual Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Breakfast at the Alpine Grove Banquet Facility in Hollis.
The breakfast included a rendition of the black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Representatives from the Nashua Board of Alderman, state legislators, school board members and school officials, a representative of Gov. Chris Sununu, law enforcement officers, community leaders, community members and many more gathered to acknowledge King’s courage and dedication during the civil right movement of the 1960s.
State and local officials set out to reflect on all King did to further civil rights. It was a morning of not only remembering the past, but recognizing a need for further advancement.
Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess was the one of the first officials to give a speech.
BHTNH Executive Director JerriAnne Boggis at MLK Celebration in Nashua.
