The inequities discussed in a recent opinion piece have been a major focus of school leadership.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Picturing Macon Bolling Allen – the mysterious disappearance of a trailblazer’s portrait
The nation’s first Black lawyer was admitted to the bar in Maine. The fate of a ‘fine oil painting’ of him, once housed at the Cumberland County Courthouse, is unknown.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Councilor Tae Chong: Portland Public Schools shortchanging Black students, those in poverty
Progressive school leaders have taken funding away from the most vulnerable and failed to focus on the issues of Black and brown youth.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: You can starve an ideal for only so long before you kill it
On Biden’s watch, images of Border Patrol agents running down Haitian migrants are both appalling and disappointing.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, News
Two teenage girls charged with violating Maine Civil Rights Act in racist spray-painting incident
The girls, both from Bangor, are suspected of painting racial slurs on the car of a Pakistani-American and person of color.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: The European disease that’s mutated through the Black Death and COVID
As the biological virus attacks bodies, the mental virus of anti-Semitism infects hearts and cultures where hatred has never ceased to be endemic.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Bias against America’s Muslims must end
The illogical logic is: If you are sufficiently Muslim, you are sufficiently guilty.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, News
Judge sentences Biddeford man to 3 years in prison for hate crime
Dusty Leo, 30, was one of two men involved in attacks on Black men in Portland and Biddeford in 2018.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly
As hate crimes rise, active bystanders needed, advocates say
National tragedies like 9/11 and the pandemic that spark acts of hate against minorities make it important for people to know how to intervene safely, activists say.
Posted inNation & World
Statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee comes down in former Confederate capital
The 21-foot-tall bronze sculpture, installed in 1890, had stood among four other massive Confederate statues in Richmond, Va., that were removed by the city last summer.