The president is urging Congress to pass voting rights changes despite divisions on Capitol Hill.
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Posted inLocal & State, News
Lawmakers may limit use of facial recognition software by police in Maine
A bill sponsored by Rep. Grayson Lookner, D-Portland, would limit police use of facial recognition technology to investigations of only the most serious crimes.
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Posted inNation & World, Politics
Biden moving to improve legal services for poor, minorities
President Joe Biden plans to take executive action to ensure minorities, low-income Americans and others have better access to quality legal representation after services dwindled during the Trump administration.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: America spends a lot of time trying to kill democracy
Senate Democrats must unite to block the filibuster and pass 2 bills that will expand access to voting.
Posted inNation & World
From medieval times to our current crisis, plagues often accelerate extremist movements
Since ancient times, pandemics have spurred sharp turns in political beliefs, spawning extremist movements, waves of mistrust and wholesale rejection of authorities. Americans are falling prey to the same phenomenon.
Posted inNation & World, Sports
Baseball great and civil rights voice Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron, 86, passes into history
Baseball’s all-time home run king died Friday at the age of 86.
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Bruce Carver Boynton, who inspired 1961 Freedom Rides, dies at 83
The civil rights leader’s arrest at a Virginia bus station helped light a fire that tore down Jim Crow laws in the U.S.
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‘Fifth girl’ injured in 1963 Klan church bombing asks Alabama governor for restitution
The explosion killed Sarah Collins Rudolph’s 14-year-old sister, Addie Mae Collins, and their friends, Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14.
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Portland renames school for Maine’s first Black legislator
The former Riverton Elementary School formally became the Gerald E. Talbot Community School during a ceremony Monday.
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Maine AG files civil rights complaint against Portland man
Attorney General Aaron Frey alleges the man used violence against a lesbian woman during an incident at the Northgate Plaza in Portland.