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Non-profit group Atlantic Black Box concluded its $132,000 deal with Maines state government with a slide-show presentation on problematic place names.

A taxpayer-funded commission in Maine sponsored an extremely expensive webinar on January 2 regarding "offensive" place names in the state.

Juneteenth marks the day that enslaved people in Galveston Bay, Texas, learned that the Civil War was over and they had been freed.

Indigo Arts Alliance is hosting the two-day event about New England's involvement with slavery.

CASTINE — As part of its 2023 education series “Hidden Legacies: Uncovering Castine’s African American History,” the Castine Historical Society will host a Zoom talk on Maine’s Place Justice Project

Maine lawmakers have pushed for four decades to remove offensive place names. But many of them still exist. A new "place justice" initiative will attempt to help Maine communities reckon with those terms and inspire change.

Two Jacksonville men have been working in Maine to honor civil rights icon James Weldon Johnson, who had a hand in "Lift Evry Voice and Sing."

I hadn’t anticipated writing another Black History Month column, but then I received two prompts about James Weldon Johnson. Elizabeth Freeman and W.E.B. Du Bois deservedly are receiving a lot

On Aug. 1, 1819, a Maine-built ship docked at Boston’s Long Wharf, completing a nearly year-long voyage to West Africa and the West Indies that only a few crew members survived.

Wiscasset selectmen and Maine’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations will keep in touch on plans to honor James Weldon Johnson. After hearing from the commission’s director of community-engaged research,...