The course is currently being tested at 60 schools around the U.S., and the official materials are intended to guide its expansion to hundreds of additional high schools in the next academic year.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Dr. King’s legacy must be honored on a daily basis
Beware the chasm between real steps toward racial equity and false steps. After that, beware the racist response to those steps.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Looking back on 150 years of Emancipation Day celebrations in Portland
Old newspaper reports show us that celebrations of Black freedom and Black activism have a long history in Maine.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
New biography of Jefferson makes this case: To know the man, read his writing
‘His Masterly Pen’ tackles head-on one of the former president’s central contradictions: How could he declare that all men are created equal and that slavery is immoral and still be a slaveholder?
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: What Haiti needs is respect and democracy
A Nov. 15 Bloomberg editorial called only for police order, with nary a word about free elections or respect for Haitian independence.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: What if we had a monarch of our own?
A head of state, as opposed to a head of government, could be a useful outlet for a variety of energies.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Black History Month: Remembering Dr. King, his circle and the challenges of 1968
A journalist who met Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights leader’s last campaigns encountered him at a complicated time.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Whoopi Goldberg got it all wrong on the Holocaust. But if she can learn, we all can
Suspended for her misinformed comments, ‘The View’ co-host gives us all one model for how to go about changing our perceptions.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Collard greens: From down South to Down East
Some days, it is easy being green.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
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.