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Black history

Published
July 26, 2020

Maine Suffrage Centennial: Women’s fight for equal rights continues today

The National Woman's Party led the fight for the 19th Amendment 100 years ago, but the work is not finished.
Published
July 19, 2020

My father taught me about Black food and identity

Now that he's gone, cookbooks fill in the gap.
Published
July 12, 2020

The View From Here: White with a capital ‘W’

It's too easy for white people to think that racial hierarchies don't affect them.
Published
July 5, 2020

The View From Here: A perfect idea for an imperfect world

Thomas Jefferson's radical ideas transcend the limits of his imagination.
Published
June 28, 2020

Maine Voices: Black Lives Matter is the latest flower of the Black Radical Tradition

Despite what a recent columnist suggests, BLM does not vindicate liberalism – it exposes and upends liberalism.

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Published
June 28, 2020

Insight: The nation’s first Black lawyer got his start in Maine

Fighting racial discrimination all the way, Macon Bolling Allen blazed a trail in the legal profession that started with his admission to the bar in Portland.
Published
June 27, 2020

Commentary: Black people are not naturally vulnerable to COVID. That’s junk race science

Those who blame African Americans draw upon an odious intellectual tradition.
Published
June 27, 2020

Maine Voices: Let us be a Juneteenth nation, not a July Fourth one

Making June 19 our national holiday would be a celebration of when we, as a nation, started taking the Declaration of Independence seriously.
Published
June 26, 2020

Maine Voices: ‘Whitewashing’ history gives young people distorted view of America

Teaching our nation’s true story will encourage clearer thinking, not treachery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explains.
Published
June 24, 2020

Maine Voices: Portland’s ties to slavery require study and action

Maine’s largest city should acknowledge that it benefited from the labor of enslaved people elsewhere and enact protesters’ demands.