Leonard Pitts: Black history is U.S. history. It will not be erased – no matter how hard America tries

Black history is one of the few fields whose teaching routinely causes the sort of agita we’ve seen yet again this year.

160 Confederate symbols removed from public spaces in 2020

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been tracking a movement to take down the monuments since 2015, when a white supremacist entered a South Carolina church and killed several Black parishioners.

A Georgetown professor trades her classroom for a police beat

Assigned to a D.C. police district with the highest concentration of Black residents, poverty and reported crime, Rosa Brooks tells stories of Black citizens with few choices, their Black victims and the police who are caught in the middle.

GOP bills would protect drivers who hit protesters

Tumultuous demonstrations stir debate about what tactics are free speech and which go too far.

Black History Month: Schools were segregated in the North, too

The battles of the civil rights era were also fought outside the Jim Crow South.

Maine Voices: Systemic racism has no home in our state

The Hancock County sheriff’s racist reaction has left Mainers without essential public health services. He should resign.

Letter: Columnist needs lessons in history, racism

Commentary: Martin Luther King Jr.’s challenge to liberal allies – and why it resonates today

King understood the perils of allowing overt white supremacy to overshadow submerged racism.

The nation’s ninth vice president had an enslaved wife

Julia Chinn died nearly four years before Richard Mentor Johnson of Kentucky took office, but because of controversy over her, Johnson is the only vice president in American history who failed to receive enough electoral votes to be elected.

Our View: Racial impact should be part of Maine’s legislative process

A ‘color-blind’ approach to lawmaking just sustains existing inequality. Lawmakers should have their eyes wide open.