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PublishedJune 2, 2020
Trump is threatening military action to quell protests, and a law could let him do it
The deployment of active-duty military personnel, particularly to states that may not want them, would represent a further escalation of Trump wielding his presidential powers.
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PublishedJune 2, 2020
Our View: We are all witnesses to systemic racism
Just like the Minneapolis police officers who watched George Floyd die, we have an obligation to act.
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PublishedMay 30, 2020
Rep. Morales: As police-related killings, COVID infections rise, it’s time to see color
So many things must change to ensure better lives for black and brown people in our country.
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PublishedMay 29, 2020
Human Rights Watch calls for Tulsa Race Massacre reparations a century after violence
The massacre began on May 31, 1921, when a white mob descended on Greenwood, a prosperous African American community. Historians believe as many as 300 black people were killed.
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PublishedMay 13, 2020
Leonard Pitts: Angry white men refuse to be governed like the rest of us
When a child goes missing, you call the police. You don’t grab a gun and try to push your way into the wrong house.
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PublishedMay 6, 2020
Leonard Pitts: We’re not ‘all in this together,’ and we never were
Want proof? Consider the benign response to the descent on Michigan's statehouse by an armed, white anti-lockdown mob.
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PublishedApril 30, 2020
Newly released data suggest ‘alarming’ racial disparity among Maine’s COVID-19 cases
African Americans account for 1.7% of the state's population but 3.7% of the state's infections. The state CDC director says, ‘These disparities are concerning.’
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PublishedApril 24, 2020
Maine Voices: A real world is out there. It invites our attention
Campaigns – for president and Congress – are not bothering to acknowledge our critical situation or address its causes and remedies.
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
Another View: Lessons from World War II still not learned
As columnist Leonard Pitts noted, some of us will never be American enough for some bigots.
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PublishedApril 8, 2020
Leonard Pitts: Some of us will never be ‘American’ enough to satisfy the bigots
Americans of Asian heritage have no obligation to prove themselves to those who beat and spit upon them.
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