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Michelle Wu’s Campaign Manager Hung ‘Black Lives Matter’ Poster In Her Classroom

November 8, 2021

The woman who ran Michelle Wu’s successful campaign for mayor of Boston hung a Black Lives Matter poster in her classroom when she taught at a public school in Louisiana.

A profile of Mary Lou Akai-Ferguson published in The Boston Globe on Sunday, November 7 includes the following two sentences:

… When she put up a Black Lives Matter poster, the administration covered the window of her classroom door.

“It was huge drama the week before school started,” she said.

Akai-Ferguson, who is the daughter of “a Japanese translator and an Irish-American international journalist,” according to the story, went to Wellesley College and later taught.

The story doesn’t mention Akai-Ferguson’s age but says she graduated from Wellesley College five years ago “with a degree in economics.”

Wu, 36, currently an at-large city councilor, is the most left wing candidate ever to win a race for mayor of Boston. She won the November 2 city election.

During the campaign, Akai-Ferguson’s job, according to the Boston Globe story, was “training volunteers from the progressive activist base Wu built over eight years and empowering them to do the work as they saw fit.”

A new mayor usually takes office in early January following the November election. But since Boston currently has an acting mayor (Kim Janey) in the wake of the resignation of former mayor Marty Walsh (who became U.S. secretary of labor in March 2021), the date has been moved up.

Wu is expected to take office as mayor of Boston on Tuesday, November 16.

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