Wes Moore will be sworn in to become Maryland’s first Black governor. He will take the oath of office on the steps of the State House in Annapolis, just blocks away from a dock where Africans, forced into the slave trade, arrived in America to be sold.
Before taking the oath, Moore will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at Annapolis City Dock, which has been designated as a “site of memory,” one of 42 Middle Passage ports across the country. He will be joined by numerous Black leaders, including Brown, U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume , former NAACP president Ben Jealous and former Lt. Govs.
Boyd Rutherford and Michael Steele.Moore’s sweeping agenda includes tackling the racial wealth gap, childhood poverty and climate change. For his first year, he has promised to start tackling childhood poverty. He also wants to replenish a state workforce which has more than 13 percent of jobs vacant, and accelerate a minimum wage hike so that it reaches $15 an hour this year.
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