In an editorial, Jersey City Ward D council candidate Veronica Akaezuwa exclaims that “I pledge to be a councilwoman for you,” detailing her platform.
Growing up, I watched the people of my family fight relentlessly for civil rights.
Both my grandmother and great-grandmother served as Presidents of their local League of Women Voters chapters, while my dad, a Nigerian immigrant, taught us never to take things for granted, that things “didn’t just happen” – if we wanted something done, we had to fight for it.
And most importantly, we were never, ever supposed to accept that something was unjust without challenging it…