racism
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PublishedJune 19, 2021
Maine Voices: Panic about critical race theory undercuts students’ search for truth
Young people aren’t fooled by attempts to treat stories from U.S. history and American literature like shameful family secrets to be covered up, a Maine teacher says.
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PublishedJune 16, 2021
Leonard Pitts: Allow teachers to teach the truth about our country
Nobody benefits when educators have to soft-pedal history to keep white people comfortable.
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PublishedJune 16, 2021
Maine Voices: Influential ideology encourages inaccurate picture of Portland city government
Critical race theory fuels division and fails to equip us to deal with the real issues facing our community.
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PublishedJune 11, 2021
Pulitzer Prizes awarded for coverage of pandemic, racial injustice protests
The Associated Press and The New York Times each won two Pulitzers, the most prestigious prize in journalism, first awarded in 1917.
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PublishedJune 11, 2021
Teen who recorded Floyd’s arrest, death wins Pulitzer citation
Darnella Frazier's video, which shows the Black man repeatedly saying he couldn't breathe before going limp, was posted to Facebook hours after it was recorded, sparking outrage in Minneapolis and beyond.
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PublishedJune 9, 2021
Leonard Pitts: ‘The right to vote is fundamental to our American democracy’
Sen. Joe Manchin is asking those of us who face the loss of our voting rights to trust him as he wagers those rights on Republican integrity and good faith.
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PublishedJune 8, 2021
Charlottesville votes to remove Confederate statues that were focus of violent 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally
The action comes as another famous Civil War effigy - Richmond's towering monument to Lee - faces a key hearing on Tuesday before the Supreme Court of Virginia that will determine its fate.
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PublishedJune 2, 2021
Leonard Pitts: Where Black history is concerned, America specializes in not knowing
Tulsa is the site of just one of the many massacres of Black Americans that whites have smothered in a conspiracy of silence.
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PublishedMay 31, 2021
Hundreds gather at historic Tulsa church’s prayer wall to mark massacre’s centennial
National civil rights leaders join local faith leaders outside the Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was largely destroyed when a white mob descended on Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood.
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PublishedMay 29, 2021
How Tulsa massacre spent most of last century unremembered
Even this year, with the 100th anniversary being recognized, it’s still an unfamiliar history to many.
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