Shay 
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 …
Physicians, nurses, medical researchers, and other healthcare and life-sciences professionals are not saints. As human as anyone else, they individually and the arenas in which they work can be riddled with biases that range from racial microaggressions to outright bigotry. Medical science itself is frequently skewed by racism, as well as other factors like sexism …