racism
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PublishedMarch 4, 2021
Kennebunk school district investigating ‘discriminatory statements’ allegedly made by staff member
Superintendent Terri Cooper said the district was made aware last week of the statements gathered by a third party and posted on social media.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2021
House passes expansive police reform bill named in honor of George Floyd
The bill, passed along mostly party lines, would ban chokeholds, end racial and religious profiling, establish a national database to track police misconduct and prohibit certain no-knock warrants.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2021
Former Massachusetts officer to face charge in alleged beating of Black man
A court official rules there was probable cause for the case to move forward.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2021
‘We turn a blind eye’: Boston’s police remain largely white
City leaders have vowed for years to work toward making the police force look more like the community it serves.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2021
Investigator seeks information about police response to June protest in Portland
The city hired a Minneapolis firm to do an internal affairs investigation of the police department's response to an anti-racism demonstration that drew an estimated 2,500 downtown.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2021
Black History Month: The past shows the way forward
History shows that the actions of ordinary people have the power to transform the world.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2021
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.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2021
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.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2021
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.
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2021
GOP bills would protect drivers who hit protesters
Tumultuous demonstrations stir debate about what tactics are free speech and which go too far.
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