civil rights
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PublishedMarch 5, 2023
In Selma, Biden says right to vote remains under assault
The president is urging Congress to pass voting rights changes despite divisions on Capitol Hill.
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PublishedMay 25, 2021
Lawmakers may limit use of facial recognition software by police in Maine
A bill sponsored by Rep. Grayson Lookner, D-Portland, would limit police use of facial recognition technology to investigations of only the most serious crimes.
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PublishedMay 18, 2021
Biden moving to improve legal services for poor, minorities
President Joe Biden plans to take executive action to ensure minorities, low-income Americans and others have better access to quality legal representation after services dwindled during the Trump administration.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2021
Leonard Pitts: America spends a lot of time trying to kill democracy
Senate Democrats must unite to block the filibuster and pass 2 bills that will expand access to voting.
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PublishedFebruary 15, 2021
From medieval times to our current crisis, plagues often accelerate extremist movements
Since ancient times, pandemics have spurred sharp turns in political beliefs, spawning extremist movements, waves of mistrust and wholesale rejection of authorities. Americans are falling prey to the same phenomenon.
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PublishedJanuary 22, 2021
Baseball great and civil rights voice Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron, 86, passes into history
Baseball’s all-time home run king died Friday at the age of 86.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2020
Bruce Carver Boynton, who inspired 1961 Freedom Rides, dies at 83
The civil rights leader's arrest at a Virginia bus station helped light a fire that tore down Jim Crow laws in the U.S.
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2020
‘Fifth girl’ injured in 1963 Klan church bombing asks Alabama governor for restitution
The explosion killed Sarah Collins Rudolph's 14-year-old sister, Addie Mae Collins, and their friends, Denise McNair, 11, Carole Robertson, 14, and Cynthia Wesley, 14.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2020
Portland renames school for Maine’s first Black legislator
The former Riverton Elementary School formally became the Gerald E. Talbot Community School during a ceremony Monday.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2020
Maine AG files civil rights complaint against Portland man
Attorney General Aaron Frey alleges the man used violence against a lesbian woman during an incident at the Northgate Plaza in Portland.