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We continue to find ourselves living in extraordinary times as we juggle the ongoing dual realities of both COVID-19 and economic disruptions, and I was hoping to avoid writing this post. Typically toward the end of the year, I put out a reminder or two that this site—and our related social media work—all run on …
Several months ago, a local Maine publication broke the story of how members of the white supremacist group Proud Boys were meeting in a downtown Portland, Maine, pub since early 2021—and how the owners of the pub were more concerned about making money than whether or not hosting white supremacists would reflect poorly on them. …
In the years since I started writing about racism in Maine (beginning in 2003 with my now-defunct Portland Phoenix column Diverse City), there has been a general shift in attitudes around race in our state and an acknowledgement that even in the palest state in America, racism is a problem. No shit! After all, here …