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PublishedFebruary 18, 2022
Testimony wraps up in hate crimes trial over Arbery killing
Final prosecution witnesses say they heard two of the defendants make racist statements, including crude sexual remarks directed at a woman who had dated a Black man.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2022
Defendants in Arbery killing repeatedly used racial slurs in texts, social posts
An FBI intelligence analyst is going through dozens of text messages and social media posts in which two of the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery repeatedly used racial slurs
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2022
In latest attack on Asian Americans, NYC woman killed by man who followed her into her apartment
Officials including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams denounced the woman's killing as the latest in a string of unprovoked attacks on people of Asian descent.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2022
Black History Month: Both Portland and Maine complicit in economics of slavery
Via trade with the West Indies, the labor of enslaved Africans built our state and its largest city.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2022
Maine Voices: Don’t support theaters that haven’t lived up to diversity pledges
Artistic organizations are beholden to the desires of their audiences when it comes to programming.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2022
Maine Voices: A message to extremists – grow up
The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, with their toy guns and mantras, are living out a boyhood fantasy that was never grounded in reality.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2022
Maine Voices: End racial profiling on Maine’s highways
A bill before the Legislature could give law enforcement fewer pretexts to make questionable stops.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2022
Maine man accused of burning Massachusetts church in racist attack
A federal grand jury has indicted a Houlton man in a 2020 blaze that damaged the Martin Luther King Jr. Presbyterian Church in Springfield.
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PublishedFebruary 7, 2022
Black colleges alarmed by bomb threats, but undeterred
The FBI is now investigating last week's bomb threats against at least 17 historically Black colleges and universities across the U.S.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2022
Of Black History month and their work, Black and brown artists say, ‘it’s complicated’
The annual tribute is a double-edged sword. Maine artists wrestle with whether it's a celebration or maybe a sidelining.
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