The girls, both from Bangor, are suspected of painting racial slurs on the car of a Pakistani-American and person of color.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Judge sentences Biddeford man to 3 years in prison for hate crime
Dusty Leo, 30, was one of two men involved in attacks on Black men in Portland and Biddeford in 2018.
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Posted inNation / World
Statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee comes down in former Confederate capital
The 21-foot-tall bronze sculpture, installed in 1890, had stood among four other massive Confederate statues in Richmond, Va., that were removed by the city last summer.
Posted inNation / World
Officers, paramedics charged in Elijah McClain’s chokehold death
McClain, a Black man, was put in a chokehold and injected with a powerful sedative two years ago.
Posted inNation / World
Hate crimes rise to highest level in 12 years amid increasing attacks on Blacks, Asians
The FBI tallied 7,759 hate crimes last year, marked by a global pandemic, a divisive presidential election and upheaval in the economy.
Posted inPerspective
Reparations for slavery is not about blame, but reconciliation
So how does one make up for slavery, Jim Crow, and all the rest? How do we make it right, and perhaps move on?
Posted inPerspective
Holocaust victims got reparations, so why not descendants of trans-Atlantic slavery?
There are major obstacles in confronting the social movement for reparations for the slave trade. Such reparations are a moral imperative, but politically, successfully obtaining them will be hard.
Posted inNation / World, Sports
British police arrest 11 for racist abuse of Black players in Euro 2020
Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka were bombarded with online abuse after they missed their penalty kicks during the nail-biting final against Italy at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Posted inNation / World
Georgia man pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life
Robert Aaron Long faces still faces the death penalty if convicted in four more shooting deaths in Atlanta.
Posted inOp-Eds, Perspective
Supreme Court ruling to have disparate impact on voting rights
Republican controlled legislatures are crafting more ambitious voter suppression schemes.