A task force has recommended the board of trustees consider various options for renaming the building on the Orono campus, possibly for a person of Wabanaki descent.
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Portland police, Black Lives Matter group clash over plans for protest Saturday
Organizers dispute Chief Frank Clark’s criticism about a lack of communication.
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Two Louisville police officers shot in protests of Breonna Taylor case
The violence occurred after a grand jury brought no charges against police for killing the Black woman during a drug raid gone wrong in March.
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Barr under fire over comparison of virus lock-in to slavery
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., called the attorney general’s remarks ‘the most ridiculous, tone-deaf, God-awful things I’ve ever heard.’
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Trump downplays legacy of slavery in appeal to white voters
Trump has long fanned the nation’s culture wars, including defending the display of the Confederate battle flag and monuments of Civil War rebels from protesters seeking their removal.
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Barr tells prosecutors to consider sedition charges against some protesters
A department memo argues that the rarely used sedition statute doesn’t require proof of a plot to overthrow the government.
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Lowe’s offers small businesses the ‘Shark Tank’ treatment
Lowe’s is putting an emphasis on businesses run by the disabled, people of color and people in the LGBT community.
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Black people have been waiting too long for equal protection under the law
Outbreaks of violence during the past month amid street protests in Portland, Oregon, Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Rochester, New York, reflect the anger of some African-Americans over the disproportionate use of lethal force by police against Black people. But the feeling of most African-Americans seems to be more akin to bone-weariness, borne of more than a […]
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When police stop Black men, the effects reach into their homes and families
As the country reels from a series of killings of Black men by the police, two scholars report that their research shows that stops by police of Black men can hurt their families.
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George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery deaths: Racism causes life-threatening conditions for black men every day
Police killings of black men gain widespread attention, but black men’s life-and-death issues are ignored on a daily basis, a physician who studies health gaps explains.