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PublishedJanuary 15, 2020
Leonard Pitts: Call 601-359-3150 – tell Mississippi no one should do 12 years for having a cellphone
Days after Willie Nash's sentence was upheld, the feds recommended that Michael Flynn get six months for lying to the FBI. Seriously?
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PublishedDecember 29, 2019
Maine Voices: Social media opens door to my world
As a half-Japanese teen in a mostly white state, I'm glad that young people and their parents have this platform to learn about diversity and racism.
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PublishedDecember 25, 2019
Elizabeth Spencer, prolific short-story writer and chronicler of the South, dies at 98
She often spent years crafting her novels, but 'The Light in the Piazza' was written in a single, cabin-feverish month in Montreal.
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PublishedDecember 24, 2019
Commentary: Celebrating Kwanzaa in a troubled time
We would all benefit by learning more about one another, and by embodying this secular holiday's ideals of happiness, unity and peace.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2019
Commentary: Helping diverse students thrive is an economic imperative for Maine
Ensuring that 60 percent of Mainers obtain a post-high school credential of value can't be accomplished without involving everyone here.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2019
Store’s apparel rekindles team name controversy in Scarborough, 20 years after change
The school board changed the nickname to 'Red Storm' in 2000. Flaherty's Family Farm store still sells fan gear carrying the old name, raising public concern.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2019
Another View: Florida must break out of lockstep with states that suppress the black vote
Requiring ex-convicts to pay all their fines and fees in order to cast a ballot undercuts a law that restores their voting rights.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2019
Leonard Pitts: You can vandalize black history, but you can never erase it
If more of us had the courage to deal with the feelings stirred by Emmett Till's murder, the site where his body was recovered wouldn't need a bulletproof marker.
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PublishedOctober 16, 2019
Leonard Pitts: When we see black people, why do we see what isn’t there?
The tragic shooting of a woman in Fort Worth is another example of a much bigger problem.
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PublishedOctober 13, 2019
The View From Here: Poor People’s Campaign sheds light on poverty in Maine
Federal poverty figures don't tell the whole story about economic insecurity and its causes.
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