Esther Agbaje, The Nigerian-American Lady Representing ‘Black Lives Matter’

By GWG Staff

Ms. Esther Agbaje, the Nigerian-American who has won election into the Minnesota House of Representatives has a legacy of activism that reflects the place that reignited the social agitation under the aegis of Black Lives Matter.

Ms. Agbaje’s new constituency, District 59B in Minneapolis is where George Floyd, the African American was killed by police officers earlier in the year.

Agbaje won on the ticket of the the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFLP), an affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party with 74.6% of the votes over her Republican Party rival, Alan Shilepsky.

Her radicalism came to statewide attention when she was identified as part of the quartet which upturned the tenure of some veteran politicians in the Minnesota Democratic Party in the primary last August.

Her emergence on the ticket underscored her years of activism in advocating for public housing, prison reforms among other social causes.

“I have always had a focus on public service, always a desire to make sure that I’m using my skills and talents to help people and to make the community around me a little bit better,” she said.

While schooling at Harvard Law School, she gave her service free of charge to persons who faced eviction and presently still volunteers with Hennepin County’s Volunteer Lawyers Network Housing Court Project.

She laments that it is touching for people who are underprivileged to be further isolated by throwing them out to the streets because of their situation.

“I have always had a focus on public service, always a desire to make sure that I’m using my skills and talents to help people and to make the community around me a little bit better,” she said.

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