Since the death of George Floyd and widespread Black Lives Matter protests, Mainers – both children and adults – have been reading more about race.
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Posted inMaine, News
Black people more likely than white people to face arrest, use of force by Portland police
Although black people make up about 7-8% of the city’s population, they have accounted for 17-23% of the arrests in the city in recent years, according to data released by the police department Friday.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Racism at Bates College challenged
More than 500 members of the Bates community this week called on the college president to take swift action to combat racism.
Posted inBoston Red Sox, Sports
Red Sox acknowledge racism at Fenway Park ‘is real,’ promise action
The team issues a statement after former MLB star Torii Hunter said he refused to be traded to Boston because of his encounters with racist fans.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
Microsoft won’t sell police its facial-recognition tech, following similar moves by Amazon, IBM
Privacy advocates have long raised concerns that police using facial-recognition technology could lead to the wrongful arrest of innocent people.
Posted inNation / World, News
Army Gen. Mark Milley says he was wrong to accompany Trump on church walk
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the nation’s top military officer, now says it was a mistake for him to have been in Lafayette Square with President Donald Trump last week.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World
More advertisers leave Tucker Carlson’s show after his Black Lives comment
Walt Disney Co., Papa John’s International Inc. and T-Mobile US Inc. said this week they would no longer advertise on his show.
Posted inNation / World, News
The Latest: Protests intensify campaigns to remove Confederate monuments around U.S.
The latest on protests against racism and police brutality. The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium’s King Leopold II. Protests and, in […]
Posted inRiver Valley, Rumford Falls Times
RSU 10 director Abbey Rice addresses racism issue
Students of all backgrounds and ethnicities should feel welcome and valued.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine governor, supreme court pledge to root out racism in law enforcement and courts
Gov. Janet Mills and the Maine Supreme Judicial Court issue statements promising to identify racism in the justice system and provide additional training to police and court personnel.