Someone scrawled a racial slur for Black people, lewd images and the word ‘trump’ on the pavement on Talbot Road sometime between Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
racism
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Officials name new road in Florida after Trayvon Martin
The Black teenager’s 2012 death sparked a movement for social justice.
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Election emerges as referendum on race relations in America
An unprecedented convergence of three crises has disproportionately affect people of color — the coronavirus pandemic, joblessness and police brutality.
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Black Lives Matter Maine stages rally at Portland police station
More than 70 people turn out as part of a national campaign to protest police brutality.
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Black man’s family views graphic video of in-custody death
The May 2019 encounter is now the subject of a federal civil rights investigation.
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White woman charged in racist NYC run-in made a 2nd 911 call, falsely claiming assault
Amy Cooper, the woman charged with filing a false police report for calling 911 during a dispute with a Black man in New York’s Central Park in May, made a second call in which she falsely claimed the man had tried to assault her.
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Self-proclaimed militia also planned to kidnap Virginia Gov. Northam
The conspirators have already been charged in an plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
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Suspects in Whitmer kidnap plot unlikely to be released on bond
The alleged plot to kidnap Whitmer, kill police officers and hatch a widespread bombing campaign in hopes of sparking a civil war likely will convince a federal magistrate judge to keep the five men in jail pending trial, legal experts said.
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When food is so much more than dinner…
A column on sumac inspires an impassioned response, and a recipe for melokhyia, a dish enjoyed in Palestine that is little known in the U.S.
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Ex-officer charged in George Floyd’s death freed on $1 million bond
Minnesota’s governor activates the National Guard to help keep the peace in case of protests.