Black Lives Matter
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PublishedJuly 2, 2020
Wide shift in opinion on police, race rare in U.S. polling
The recent shifts in public opinion stand out when compared with years of survey research conducted following similar slayings of Black people by police.
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PublishedJuly 1, 2020
For her, SoPo Human Rights Commission project a labor of love
South Portland resident Margaret Brownlee wanted to do something to participate in the growing national anti-racism movement, and some independent research has led to a project that will create the city's first human rights commission.
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PublishedJune 30, 2020
Attorney for George Floyd’s family preparing federal civil rights lawsuit
Ben Crump has won more than 200 police brutality lawsuits and represents the families of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbury in addition to Floyd’s.
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PublishedJune 30, 2020
Bath man cited for driving truck into protesters at crosswalk
Bath police ticketed 83-year-old William Angell for failure to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk after he allegedly drove his truck into protesters crossing Centre Street in a crosswalk on June 11.
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PublishedJune 29, 2020
Maine municipalities review police funding, tackle systemic racism after protests
Calls to defund police draw various responses from city and town officials across the state.
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
Trump tweets video with ‘white power’ chant, then deletes it
The White House deputy press secretary says the president did not hear the statement.
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PublishedJune 28, 2020
Maine Voices: Black Lives Matter is the latest flower of the Black Radical Tradition
Despite what a recent columnist suggests, BLM does not vindicate liberalism – it exposes and upends liberalism.
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PublishedJune 27, 2020
Maine Voices: Let us be a Juneteenth nation, not a July Fourth one
Making June 19 our national holiday would be a celebration of when we, as a nation, started taking the Declaration of Independence seriously.
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PublishedJune 26, 2020
So. Portland addresses demands to defund police in final budget
The council approved the city's $38 million budget, but not before addressing criticism that they didn't go far enough to cut police funding.
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PublishedJune 24, 2020
Cape Elizabeth makes anti-racism push
The council agreed to put up a sign rejecting racism, along with updating an anti-racism resolution and beginning work on a new diversity advisory council -- moves that some say are long overdue.
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