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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 Ev'ry 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,...