Black lives won’t matter until we answer for the sins of slavery.
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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Kamala Harris graduated from university founded by Maine man
Union Gen. Oliver Otis Howard saw education for former slaves as the best way to ensure they could be informed voters.
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Maine Suffrage Centennial: Women’s fight for equal rights continues today
The National Woman’s Party led the fight for the 19th Amendment 100 years ago, but the work is not finished.
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My father taught me about Black food and identity
Now that he’s gone, cookbooks fill in the gap.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-eds, Opinion
The View From Here: A perfect idea for an imperfect world
Thomas Jefferson’s radical ideas transcend the limits of his imagination.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Black Lives Matter is the latest flower of the Black Radical Tradition
Despite what a recent columnist suggests, BLM does not vindicate liberalism – it exposes and upends liberalism.
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Insight: The nation’s first Black lawyer got his start in Maine
Fighting racial discrimination all the way, Macon Bolling Allen blazed a trail in the legal profession that started with his admission to the bar in Portland.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Black people are not naturally vulnerable to COVID. That’s junk race science
Those who blame African Americans draw upon an odious intellectual tradition.
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Maine Voices: Let us be a Juneteenth nation, not a July Fourth one
Making June 19 our national holiday would be a celebration of when we, as a nation, started taking the Declaration of Independence seriously.