racism
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PublishedMay 25, 2021
Artists and activists gather in Portland to mark anniversary of George Floyd’s death
The event was held on Congress Street to memorialize Floyd, the Black man whose murder by a white Minneapolis police officer touched off a year of racial reckoning.
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PublishedMay 25, 2021
Our View: A police killing that changed history
A new generation of activists emerged after George Floyd’s murder.
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PublishedMay 25, 2021
Top officer in Black man’s fatal arrest withheld body camera video
In perhaps the strongest evidence yet of an attempted cover-up in the 2019 death of Ronald Greene, the ranking Louisiana State Police officer at the scene denied the existence of his own body camera video until the footage emerged last month.
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PublishedMay 23, 2021
George Floyd killing prompts some states to limit or ban chokeholds
At least 17 states have prohibited or severely limited the use of chokeholds and neck restraints by police officers in the year since George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis.
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PublishedMay 23, 2021
Insight: 100 years of immigration mistakes
A century-old law, inspired by discredited pseudoscience, has created President Biden’s border problems.
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PublishedMay 22, 2021
Maine Voices: What ‘Uncle Tom’ means to Sen. Scott
Progressives who call the senator ‘Uncle Tim’ should read a celebrated play in which the slur illustrates the high stakes of putting a Black man down.
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PublishedMay 21, 2021
Long-withheld video of fatal arrest shows shackled Black man ordered facedown
Body-camera video shows Louisiana state troopers ordering Ronald Greene to keep lying facedown – a tactic that may have hindered his breathing – and an autopsy cited restraint and ‘inflicted head injury’ as factors in his death.
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PublishedMay 18, 2021
Congress passes bill to fight hate crimes against Asian Americans
President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bipartisan denunciation of the spate of brutal attacks that have proliferated during coronavirus pandemic.
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PublishedMay 11, 2021
Prosecutor plans to seek death penalty in Atlanta spa shootings
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis also filed notice that she intends to seek hate crime charges and the death penalty against Robert Aaron Long, who is white.
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PublishedMay 9, 2021
Maine Voices: Before you report my young Black children to police, let’s talk
The lives of young people of color are at stake because adults are afraid to have conversations with each other.
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