The president will also direct the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take steps necessary to promote equitable housing policy.
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Posted inNation & World, New England
Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston
The optics of the statue that showed Abraham Lincoln with a freed slave appearing to kneel at his feet drew objections amid a national reckoning with racial injustice.
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Posted inMaine, News
Portland’s racial equity panel will hold first public hearing next week
The group will hold its first session at 5 p.m. Thursday to solicit feedback about ‘the ways that the city interacts with the area agencies and organizations in the name of public safety.’
Posted inNation & World, News
Bruce Carver Boynton, who inspired 1961 Freedom Rides, dies at 83
The civil rights leader’s arrest at a Virginia bus station helped light a fire that tore down Jim Crow laws in the U.S.
Posted inMaine, Schools and Education
‘It’s gotten nasty’: Clash over racial equity work roils Cumberland
Six months after SAD 51 issued two racial equity letters, the district continues to see backlash from a resident who has alleged an illegal meeting and hiring.
Posted inNation & World
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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Texas officer charged with murder in Black man’s shooting
Wolfe City Police Officer Shaun Lucas fatally shot Jonathan Price, 22, at a convenience store in the small town northeast of Dallas.
Posted inNation & World
AP program could elevate Black studies in high schools nationwide
Its release follows a three-year pilot in 11 public schools with widely varying racial demographics.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine’s racial profiling law won’t work without data
If police don’t record the perceived race of the people they stop, there’s no way to tell if bias plays a role.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: We can recognize and rebuke racism, though we can’t erase its sting
The details of what I’ve faced as a Black man in America are individual, but the experiences are painfully ubiquitous among Black people.