racism
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PublishedMarch 31, 2021
Leonard Pitts: Republican voter restrictions are Jim Crow 2.0, and they won’t stand
In Georgia and states across the country, fearful legislators are trying to suppress the vote. But Black Americans can outflank, outfight and outlast them.
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PublishedMarch 31, 2021
Maine Voices: Portland Chamber should apologize for working with KKK in 1923 to create city charter
The chamber must face the impact of its actions on marginalized communities and not use its outsize influence to sway the Charter Commission campaign.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2021
Lawyer: FBI enlisted Proud Boys leader to inform on antifa
Proud Boys organizer Joseph Biggs agreed to provide the FBI with information about anti-fascist activists after an agent contacted him in late July 2020.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2021
Congress faces pressure to address anti-Asian American attacks
The organization Stop AAPI Hate has received more than 3,800 reports of incidents ranging from shunning and verbal harassment to assault from March 2020 to Feb. 28.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2021
Onlookers’ anger grew as Floyd stopped moving, say witnesses in ex-officer’s trial
The teenager who shot the video of the arrest that set off nationwide protests testifies that then-Officer Derek Chauvin gave the crowd a ‘cold’ and ‘heartless’ stare.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2021
Video shows vicious attack on Asian American woman in New York
The New York City Police Department says an Asian American woman was attacked Monday by a man who repeatedly kicked her in front of witnesses who apparently stood by.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2021
Witness in ex-officer’s trial recounts seeing George Floyd ‘slowly fade away’
Prosecutors at the trial of Derek Chauvin played a video showing the white former Minneapolis police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes, 29 seconds as the Black man pleaded for his life and went limp.
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PublishedMarch 28, 2021
South Portland families urge schools to work harder on race issues
Some families say they want to see more urgency and transparency around racial equity work amid incidents that include a teacher's use of a racial slur in a classroom last year.
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PublishedMarch 27, 2021
Floyd case spurred broad push for change, but how far that will go remains unclear
As Minneapolis braces for Monday’s opening statements in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the ex-officer charged with murder and manslaughter in George Floyd’s death, the world does as well.
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PublishedMarch 27, 2021
Charlottesville mayor’s poem about city, racism ‘hits nerve’
The poem by Nikuyah Walker, the first Black woman elected mayor of the Virginia city, which has been home to a slave-owning U.S. president and a deadly white nationalist rally in 2017.
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