black history
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PublishedNovember 11, 2021
Commentary: Colin Powell’s funeral was a missed opportunity to unite the country
Collective mourning has long brought Americans together.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2021
Collard greens: From down South to Down East
Some days, it is easy being green.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2021
Maine Voices: Picturing Macon Bolling Allen – the mysterious disappearance of a trailblazer’s portrait
The nation’s first Black lawyer was admitted to the bar in Maine. The fate of a ‘fine oil painting’ of him, once housed at the Cumberland County Courthouse, is unknown.
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PublishedSeptember 22, 2021
Leonard Pitts: You can starve an ideal for only so long before you kill it
On Biden’s watch, images of Border Patrol agents running down Haitian migrants are both appalling and disappointing.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2021
Commentary: How this enslaved man’s story could persuade more Black Americans to get vaccinated
Highlighting the historic role of an African man named Onesimus, who introduced the idea of inoculation in early America, offers a source of pride.
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PublishedAugust 8, 2021
An all-Black musical was a Broadway smash – and then was mostly forgotten
"Shuffle Along" brought Black and White audiences together 100 years ago, writes Caseen Gaines.
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PublishedJuly 18, 2021
Maine Voices: July Fourth weekend standoff should raise awareness of ‘sovereign citizen’ threat
Rise of the Moors, arrested en route to Maine, is just one of many unauthorized paramilitary entities in the U.S.
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PublishedJuly 11, 2021
The Maine Millennial: Historical reckoning begins at home
We can’t change what happened in the past, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore it, my own family history shows.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2021
Maine Voices: America is a work in progress. So am I.
The ideas worked for by my parents – a diplomat who represented our country abroad; a teacher who championed civil rights – have been tested, yet I am hopeful.
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PublishedJune 23, 2021
Maine Voices: The Tulsa Race Massacre is America’s own Tiananmen Square
We too have buried both bodies and the truth. Only when we admit our past can we stand with the victims of other nations.
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