McClain, a Black man, was put in a chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative two years ago.
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Hate crimes rise to highest level in 12 years amid increasing attacks on Blacks, Asians
The FBI tallied 7,759 hate crimes last year, marked by a global pandemic, a divisive presidential election and upheaval in the economy.
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Maine Voices: What Netflix’s ‘The Chair’ teaches us about voice, representation
The show about a fictional university makes clear how much Maine’s real-life institutions will benefit from uplifting the voices of students and marginalized groups.
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Insight: America’s reckoning with Indian boarding schools
When coming to terms with the history of a destructive policy, the nation needs to be guided by accountability, not pity.
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Georgia man pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life
Robert Aaron Long faces still faces the death penalty if convicted in four more shooting deaths in Atlanta.
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The Maine Millennial: Historical reckoning begins at home
We can’t change what happened in the past, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore it, my own family history shows.
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Our View: Collins takes wrong side on voting rights
The Maine Republican left no room for compromise as states pass voter-suppression laws.
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Maine Voices: Panic about critical race theory undercuts students’ search for truth
Young people aren’t fooled by attempts to treat stories from U.S. history and American literature like shameful family secrets to be covered up, a Maine teacher says.
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Pulitzer Prizes awarded for coverage of pandemic, racial injustice protests
The Associated Press and The New York Times each won two Pulitzers, the most prestigious prize in journalism, first awarded in 1917.
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Teen who recorded Floyd’s arrest, death wins Pulitzer citation
Darnella Frazier’s video, which shows the Black man repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe before going limp, was posted to Facebook hours after it was recorded, sparking outrage in Minneapolis and beyond.