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Leonard Pitts: Why can’t we have nice things? Actually, we could.

by Leonard Pitts Jr. The Miami Herald May 5, 2021May 4, 2021

Resort-style swimming pools are just one of the public amenities that white people have done without rather than share them with Black people.

by Chris Averill Special to the Press Herald May 1, 2021April 30, 2021

This would be a fitting recognition that reminds generations of Mainers to come about the vital work she undertook to help Maine.

by Steve Wessler Special to the Telegram April 11, 2021April 10, 2021

An educator and former prosecutor is now doing the necessary work of challenging his own false stereotypes about Black people.

by Thomas Urquhart April 11, 2021April 12, 2021

In ‘Unsinkable,’ James Sullivan traces the the ‘indomitable’ USS Plunkett and the men who sailed it.

by Gary Libby Special to the Telegram April 8, 2021April 10, 2021

Since arriving in America, people of Asian descent have been a target of discrimination, harassment and violence, even here in Maine.

by Joshua Holzer Westminster College March 21, 2021March 20, 2021

Most state legislatures don’t give veto power over all lawmaking to a minority, and neither do most of the world’s democracies.

by Ty Hobson-Powell Progressive Media Project March 9, 2021March 8, 2021

This is about enfranchising the more than 700,000 mostly Black and brown people who have waited centuries for representation in Congress.

by Kelley McDaniel Special to the Press Herald March 4, 2021March 4, 2021

If you keep calling someone by the wrong name, then you’re making a conscious choice to be disrespectful.

by Magdalene Zier Special to The Washington Post March 3, 2021March 2, 2021

Anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly’s career was no less important after her efforts derailed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1980.

by The Editorial Board March 3, 2021March 4, 2021

A new report offers a roadmap for making history and government more central in American education.