In commemoration of Maine’s bicentennial this year, The Forecaster is featuring historical highlights and artifacts from our communities’ past 200 years. This feature can be found in print and online every other week.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our View: It’s time to save Portland’s Abyssinian Meeting House
It’s not enough to tear down statues that don’t align with our values. We need to put up monuments that do.
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Maine Voices: Liberalism has changed, evolved along with our republic
What began as a philosophy of limited government now means government protection and a weakening of the grip of the elites over our democracy.
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Insight: Malaga’s legacy speaks to our time
Ruthless, racially motivated actions by Maine’s government a century ago expose biases that are still with us.
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Our View: Juneteenth offers reckoning on race
The holiday marking the end of American slavery is an occasion to consider the still unfulfilled promises of freedom.