This year’s event was the first without the towering presence of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, Rev. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. C.T. Vivian and attorney Bruce Boynton, who all died in 2020.
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As violence surges, some question city’s axing of police unit
Portland, Oregon, last year dissolved a special police unit designed to focus on gun violence during the national reckoning over racial injustice.
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Six Dr. Seuss books won’t be published for racist images
The business that preserves and protects Dr. Seuss’ legacy has announced it will stop publishing six titles because of racist and insensitive imagery
Posted inNation / World, New England
Former Massachusetts officer to face charge in alleged beating of Black man
A court official rules there was probable cause for the case to move forward.
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Investigator seeks information about police response to June protest in Portland
The city hired a Minneapolis firm to do an internal affairs investigation of the police department’s response to an anti-racism demonstration that drew an estimated 2,500 downtown.
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 inPerspective
Black sororities have stood at the forefront of Black achievement for more than a century
Members of the nation’s four Black sororities, including Vice President Kamala Harris, commit to lifelong acts of service for their communities.
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 inPerspective
What 2020 taught us about race and class in America
The events of 2020 challenged and changed our individual and collective identities as Americans.
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
New Gloucester selectman facing recall quits at meeting
“I am done with everything concerning New Gloucester,” said Selectman George Colby at Monday night’s Board of Selectmen meeting.