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PublishedMay 1, 2021
Commentary: How to live your First Amendment freedoms
Many Americans can’t name the five freedoms this amendment guarantees: the freedoms of religion, speech, press, peaceful assembly and government petition.
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PublishedApril 2, 2021
Journalist Leonard Pitts Jr. to receive Colby College’s Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award
On Tuesday, Colby will award Pitts, a journalist, commentator and novelist, with the award named for Lovejoy, an Albion native, Colby alumnus, journalist and abolitionist who was murdered in 1837 while defending his printing press in Alton, Illinois, from an angry, pro-slavery mob.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2020
The View From Here: White with a capital ‘W’
It's too easy for white people to think that racial hierarchies don't affect them.
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PublishedMarch 4, 2020
Native American journalist, activist Chuck Trimble dies at 84
Trimble founded the American Indian Press Association in the 1970s, citing a lack of coverage of Native American issues.
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PublishedNovember 24, 2019
Greg Kesich: Letters about vaccines blur the lines
As the old saying goes, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2019
Commentary: Jamal Khashoggi’s death was part of alarming trend
To raise awareness about the media's vital yet risky work, Colby College is dedicating its annual award for courage in journalism to 66 journalists who died on assignment.
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PublishedOctober 4, 2019
Colby College honors courageous acts of reporters and photojournalists
The college on Friday honored 66 journalists who died in 2018 with the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award named for the Albion native who was killed while defending his newspaper in Illinois from an pro-slavery mob.
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PublishedJuly 4, 2019
Longtime reporter Bonnie Washuk retires from Sun Journal
Bonnie Washuk enjoyed more than 35 years listening to the community and telling its story in thousands of pieces since 1983.
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PublishedMay 26, 2019
Maine Voices: Sense of radio’s wonders handed down over generations
A father's grasp of detail made an Indy car roar into a kid's ears and imagination every Memorial Day.
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