WASHINGTON — Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., only 1 in 10 African Americans think the United States has achieved all or most of the goals of the civil rights movement he led, according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Three-quarters of African Americans […]
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Bates College offering MLK events Sunday, Monday
LEWISTON — Peniel Joseph, author, historian and founder of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Boston’s Tufts University, will be the keynote speaker at Bates College on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday. Joseph’s talk is titled “Reimagining Martin Luther King Jr. in the Age of Obama and the Age […]
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Candlelight vigil in Lewiston Sunday
LEWISTON — There will be a candlelight vigil at 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at the Bernard Lown Peace Bridge to express public support for the value of all lives. The event, which is supported by the L-A Interfaith Clergy Group, is being held to show support “specifically and especially” for African-American lives, according to […]
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Lewiston to host briefing on criminal sentencing disparities Thursday
LEWISTON — On Thursday, the Maine Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will convene a public briefing to gather information from government officials and others regarding sentencing disparities in Maine. The briefing will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber of City Hall. According to a press release from the […]
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Maya Angelou, celebrated poet and author, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou’s story awed millions. A childhood victim of rape, she broke through silence and shame to tell her tale in one of the most widely read memoirs of the 20th century. A black woman born into poverty and segregation, she recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. “I’m […]
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MLK’s dream inspires a new march, and a president
WASHINGTON (AP) — Standing on hallowed ground of the civil rights movement, President Barack Obama challenged new generations Wednesday to seize the cause of racial equality and honor the “glorious patriots” who marched a half century ago to the very steps from which Rev. Martin Luther King spoke during the March on Washington. In a […]
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Did black men fight at Gettysburg?
“For every Southern boy fourteen years old,” William Faulkner famously wrote in “Intruder in the Dust” (1948), it is early in the afternoon on July 3, 1863, just before the order is given to attack the center of the Union line across an open field three-quarters of a mile long, which leads up to Cemetery […]