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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Leonard Pitts: Black history is U.S. history. It will not be erased – no matter how hard America tries
Black history is one of the few fields whose teaching routinely causes the sort of agita we’ve seen yet again this year.
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Posted inNation & World
160 Confederate symbols removed from public spaces in 2020
The Southern Poverty Law Center has been tracking a movement to take down the monuments since 2015, when a white supremacist entered a South Carolina church and killed several Black parishioners.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
A Georgetown professor trades her classroom for a police beat
Assigned to a D.C. police district with the highest concentration of Black residents, poverty and reported crime, Rosa Brooks tells stories of Black citizens with few choices, their Black victims and the police who are caught in the middle.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
GOP bills would protect drivers who hit protesters
Tumultuous demonstrations stir debate about what tactics are free speech and which go too far.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Black History Month: Schools were segregated in the North, too
The battles of the civil rights era were also fought outside the Jim Crow South.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Systemic racism has no home in our state
The Hancock County sheriff’s racist reaction has left Mainers without essential public health services. He should resign.
Posted inThe Forecaster
Letter: Columnist needs lessons in history, racism
I have issues with the article by Abdi Ifitn (“Today’s America is unrecognizable,” Jan. 8). First of all, Mr. Ifitn is very young and has no knowledge of American history. He should listen to Dinesh D’Souza, who knows more about American history than most Americans do. I do agree that this is NOT the country […]
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Martin Luther King Jr.’s challenge to liberal allies – and why it resonates today
King understood the perils of allowing overt white supremacy to overshadow submerged racism.
Posted inNation & World
The nation’s ninth vice president had an enslaved wife
Julia Chinn died nearly four years before Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky took office, but because of controversy over her, Johnson is the only vice president in American history who failed to receive enough electoral votes to be elected.