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The Maine Department of Education’s (DOE) Interdisciplinary Instruction team has curated resources of content and instructional approaches to help educators include and highlight the important contributions of Black and African-American Mainers in authentic ways. These project-based strategies include finding local historical figures and guest speakers, researching local history, and bridging content areas. Our first resource … Continue reading Interdisciplinary Resource Highlight for Black History Month: American Ancestors Family History Curriculum

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.

The City of Bangor held a ceremony Saturday to rename the park in honor of Gerald E. Talbot.

This legislation comes as leaders in the York School Department are searching for firms to conduct a formal equity curriculum audit.

African American Collection unveils exhibit on Maine’s Black families University of Southern Maine Share The University of Southern Maine’s African American Collection has unveiled the first of six new digital exhibitions, highlighting 200 years of families in Maine. The first exhibit, “We Exist: Evidence of Maine’s Black Families from 1800 to the 20th Century,” specifically highlight images from the Gerald E. Talbot Collection, as well as others from the African American Collection, part of the Jean Byers Sampson Center for Diversity in Maine, Special Collections, University of So...