Scholars are divided over whether the campaign amounts to erasing history or updating it.
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Senate Republicans ready policing bill after Floyd death, protests
The party that has long favored a ‘law and order’ approach finds itself trying to adapt to a fast-changing national dialogue on police and race.
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Maine Democrats pass resolution calling for police reform
The Maine Democratic Party says it’s incorporating opposition to police brutality into its platform this year
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Police say they intercepted armed counterprotesters in Portland last week
The disclosure comes after a resident questions why officers were stationed on rooftops during last week’s protests and a police official says they were there to protect demonstrators.
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NASCAR Trucks driver quits over Confederate flag ban, new anthem policy
A lower-level driver, Ray Ciccarelli says he will not return after the 2020 season because of ‘the direction NASCAR is headed.’
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PGA Tour gets back to business, offers tribute to Floyd
The tour honors George Floyd with a moment of silence as pro golf returns at the Charles Schwab Challenge.
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Army Gen. Mark Milley says he was wrong to accompany Trump on church walk
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the nation’s top military officer, now says it was a mistake for him to have been in Lafayette Square with President Donald Trump last week.
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The Latest: Protests intensify campaigns to remove Confederate monuments around U.S.
The latest on protests against racism and police brutality. The rapidly unfolding movement to pull down Confederate monuments around the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd’s death has extended to statues of slave traders, imperialists, conquerors and explorers around the world, including Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes and Belgium’s King Leopold II. Protests and, in […]
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Maine Voices: Nation challenged to create equitable ‘new normal’ for African Americans
When will we act to correct the hatred and injustice that have cost so many lives?
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About 250 protesters march in Cape Elizabeth: See the photos
The group of mostly teenagers and young adults protested police shootings.