The students pleaded with Bates College to transform its Campus Safety Department.
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Boston turns historic page with Kim Janey, city’s first female and first Black mayor
Fellow Democrat Marty Walsh resigned Monday to become President Joe Biden’s labor secretary.
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Biden moves to advance racial equity, including ending privately run federal prisons
The president will also direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take steps necessary to promote equitable housing policy.
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Mainers reflect on Dr. King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech
We asked eight Mainers to read parts of Dr. King’s immortal “I Have a Dream” speech, and share their thoughts on how his words resonate with them today.
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Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston
The optics of the statue that showed Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice.
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‘It’s gotten nasty’: Clash over racial equity work roils Cumberland
Six months after SAD 51 issued two racial equity letters, the district continues to see backlash from a resident who has alleged an illegal meeting and hiring.
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Election emerges as referendum on race relations in America
An unprecedented convergence of three crises has disproportionately affect people of color — the coronavirus pandemic, joblessness and police brutality.
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Legal experts review Black Minnesota teen’s life sentence
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who was top prosecutor in Hennepin County during Myon Burrell’s sentencing, says she welcomes and supports the panel.
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How John Dunjee escaped slavery and came to Bates College in 1866
The first African-American student to attend Bates College may have been a president’s son. John William Dunjee, who escaped from slavery just before the Civil War, began taking classes in Lewiston in 1866 because it cost less than Oberlin College in Ohio, where he had started his studies. Bates at the time had just barely […]
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Judge warns he’s likely to move trials in George Floyd death
A Minnesota judge sets a March 8 trial date for 4 former officers if they are tried together, though he said he expects motions to be filed to separate their trials.