With enough will and unity, equity is difficult but not unattainable, an African American former Mainer says.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Tulsa plans to dig for suspected mass graves from 1921 race massacre
Historians believe as many as 300 black people were killed, and much of Greenwood, one of the most affluent black communities in the country, was leveled by fire.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Call 601-359-3150 – tell Mississippi no one should do 12 years for having a cellphone
Days after Willie Nash’s sentence was upheld, the feds recommended that Michael Flynn get six months for lying to the FBI. Seriously?
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Social media opens door to my world
As a half-Japanese teen in a mostly white state, I’m glad that young people and their parents have this platform to learn about diversity and racism.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Nation & World, News
Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98
She often spent years crafting her novels, but ‘The Light in the Piazza’ was written in a single, cabin-feverish month in Montreal.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Celebrating Kwanzaa in a troubled time
We would all benefit by learning more about one another, and by embodying this secular holiday’s ideals of happiness, unity and peace.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Helping diverse students thrive is an economic imperative for Maine
Ensuring that 60 percent of Mainers obtain a post-high school credential of value can’t be accomplished without involving everyone here.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Store’s apparel rekindles team name controversy in Scarborough, 20 years after change
The school board changed the nickname to ‘Red Storm’ in 2000. Flaherty’s Family Farm store still sells fan gear carrying the old name, raising public concern.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Florida must break out of lockstep with states that suppress the black vote
Requiring ex-convicts to pay all their fines and fees in order to cast a ballot undercuts a law that restores their voting rights.
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Leonard Pitts: You can vandalize black history, but you can never erase it
If more of us had the courage to deal with the feelings stirred by Emmett Till’s murder, the site where his body was recovered wouldn’t need a bulletproof marker.