Black Mainer News Today

Old newspaper reports show us that celebrations of Black freedom and Black activism have a long history in Maine.

AUGUSTA — On Tuesday, the Maine Senate voted to confirm Judge Rick E. Lawrence to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Judge Lawrence is the first Black Mainer to be appointed to the state’s highest court. “I am deeply honored by the opportunity to...

Douglas Rooks Craig Hickman, who won a state Senate special election on Tuesday, would be an unusual candidate in any political contest. Inevitably, though, he stands out through a category that – much more than most would like to admit – has long dominated American life. The competing narratives were laid out recently in the New York Times’s “1619” project, which puts slavery at the center of European conquest of the “New World,” and the “1776” project, hastily assembled at t...