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PublishedAugust 22, 2020
Police shoot, kill Black man outside store in Louisiana
Both the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center on Saturday called for an investigation.
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PublishedAugust 20, 2020
Edward Little High School grad to donate laptops to immigrants
The Chromebooks will be distributed at 4 p.m. Friday.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2020
Over 300 Portland-area businesses make racial, social solidarity pledge
The Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce's Standing in Solidarity initiative is challenging businesses to focus on implicit biases and other issues of racial injustice.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2020
Maine Supreme Court questions Melville Fuller statue outside Kennebec courthouse
The monument honors the Augusta-born former chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who was part of the majority in the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that maintained racial segregation with the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2020
Watch: John Lewis mourned as ‘founding father’ of a better America
The late civil rights icon is eulogized by three former presidents and others at his funeral in Atlanta.
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PublishedJuly 27, 2020
National Guard commander says police used ‘excessive force’ on DC protesters to clear path for Trump
Adam DeMarco is scheduled to testify Tuesday before a House committee investigating the government's actions in clearing protesters away from Lafayette Square with projectiles, gas, smoke and mounted police.
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PublishedJuly 22, 2020
House votes to remove Confederate statues from Capitol
The Pentagon, states, cities and NASCAR also have taken steps to ban, remove or replace symbols of the Confederacy.
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PublishedJuly 22, 2020
Liberal, progressive – and racist? The Sierra Club faces its white-supremacist history.
John Muir, who fought to preserve Yosemite Valley and Sequoia National Forest, used racist pejoratives to refer to Black Americans.
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PublishedJuly 22, 2020
Calls grow for federal officers to shed military-style uniforms
The public has at turns mistaken police for soldiers since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May triggered demonstrations and civil unrest.
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PublishedJuly 22, 2020
‘Very frightening’: Opposition grows against federal agents deployed to cities
The use of federal agents against the will of local officials also has set up the potential for a constitutional crisis.
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