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Season 2 of "Elevating Voices" on Maine Public Television will highlight 10 businesses from a range of sectors contributing to Maine's economic and cultural diversity.

HomeFront: Animation sensation, IFFBoston picks, plus a voice for Sally Hemings Marie Morris © Provided by The Boston Globe Katie Mitchell, voiced by Abbi Jacobson, in a scene from "The Mitchells vs. The Machines." Welcome back to HomeFront, where May is hours away, pollen counts are climbing, and pandemic precautions are slowly easing. Until we reach herd immunity and full reopening of everything — and, frankly, even after that — plenty of us will keep taking advantage o...

EqualityMaine, in the Equality Community Center in Portland. In addition to embracing just people from out of state, companies need to attract and retain a broader mix of diversity to survive and thrive. The larger companies in the state, which have large human resources departments to build diversity training, have been on the forefront of DEI efforts in recent years, says Gia Drew, program director of Equality Maine. “Major corporations have driven DEI. There’s pressure globally to be a g...