Northshore magazine showcases the best that the North Shore of Boston, MA has to offer.
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NORTHSHOREMAG.COM 58 OCTOBER 2020 I N - D E P T H A flight of beer at Granite Coast. A group of citizens band together to work toward social equality. BY SARAH SHEMKUS NAACP ON THE NORTH SHORE PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOE FERRARO can be easy to just not see the racial tensions that exist. But they are very much there, says Wenham resident Natalie Bowers. "The majority of conversations I have had with people of color on the North Shore is that they do not feel welcome here," Bowers says. "We're so segregated we don't realize racism exists here." When the video of George Floyd's death at the hands of a policeman in Minnesota went viral in May, she decided it was time Left to right, Wenham residents Judy Kauffman, Craig Kauffman, Dr. Kenann F. McKenzie, Natalie Bowers, Manny DeCruz, Roberta DeCruz, Arnie Cowan, Abby Pardee-Albrecht are founding members of the North Shore NAACP Chapter. They are photographed with Juan Cofield, president of the NAACP New England Chapter. . A Black woman in Beverly is wary of walking the streets alone, so she enlists a white friend to accompany her. In Newburyport, a Black teen offers a man a doughnut and is met with a tirade of racial slurs. A couple visiting a Marblehead beach discover a racist note taped to their car when they return. On the North Shore of Massachusetts, where the majority of the population is white and the culture is generally considered progressive, it