Abyssinian Meeting House could receive $1.7 million in federal funding pressherald.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressherald.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Abyssinian restoration group raised $375,000 after Black Lives Matter marches The money will help restore the historic Black meetinghouse in Portland before its 200th anniversary, but more work must be done to make that happen. 8 of 8 The Abyssinian Meeting House on Feb. 16. New windows were recently installed. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer Leonard Cummings was heartened by the public outpouring of grief and outrage last year after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer and many Mainers took to the streets in protest. But he worried that the renewed attention to racism in America would prompt Mainers to focus their attention elsewhere if they didn’t recognize the work that remains undone here at home.
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