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Portland renames school for Maine’s first Black legislator

The former Riverton Elementary School formally became the Gerald E. Talbot Community School during a ceremony Monday.

Attorney General Aaron Frey alleges the man used violence against a lesbian woman during an incident at the Northgate Plaza in Portland.

by JEFF MARTIN Associated Press July 30, 2020July 30, 2020

The late civil rights icon is eulogized by three former presidents and others at his funeral in Atlanta.

The congressman and civil rights icon spoke at the Bates College commencement in 2016, urging students to ‘be a headlight, not a taillight.’