An FBI intelligence analyst is going through dozens of text messages and social media posts in which two of the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Is America a racist country? If you have to ask, you’re part of the problem
If federal jurors conclude that Ahmaud Arbery was shot because he was Black, they’ll go a long way toward helping us see ourselves as we are.
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Commentary: Parents want this book out of North Carolina high school classrooms. So I read it
The outrage over ‘The Girl Who Fell from the Sky’ is another example of adults not wanting kids to see the world the way it actually is.
Posted inNation & World
In latest attack on Asian Americans, NYC woman killed by man who followed her into her apartment
Officials including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams denounced the woman’s killing as the latest in a string of unprovoked attacks on people of Asian descent.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Don’t let Super Bowl distract from NFL’s problem with diversity
The lawsuit from Brian Flores lays bare the worst side of the country’s most popular pro sports league.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Black History Month: Both Portland and Maine complicit in economics of slavery
Via trade with the West Indies, the labor of enslaved Africans built our state and its largest city.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: A message to extremists – grow up
The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, with their toy guns and mantras, are living out a boyhood fantasy that was never grounded in reality.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Don’t support theaters that haven’t lived up to diversity pledges
Artistic organizations are beholden to the desires of their audiences when it comes to programming.
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Maine Voices: End racial profiling on Maine’s highways
A bill before the Legislature could give law enforcement fewer pretexts to make questionable stops.
Posted inLocal & State, New England
Maine man accused of burning Massachusetts church in racist attack
A federal grand jury has indicted a Houlton man in a 2020 blaze that damaged the Martin Luther King Jr. Presbyterian Church in Springfield.