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An unsolved crime on Nantucket reveals decades of racial tension
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The Black woman rose quietly from her seat at the back of the meeting room and made her way past the white faces that surrounded her, toward the front.
A Jamaican immigrant who worked as a nursing assistant on Nantucket, Rose Marie Samuels did not make a habit of frequenting meetings of the town’s Select Board. But on this chilly evening in March, she took her place at the microphone and requested what no one on this idyllic summer enclave had yet been able to give her: Answers.
“Today makes two years,” Samuels said in her accented English. “And nothing, still, has happened.”
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