Supreme Court to hear challenge to affirmative action in college admissions

The conservative-dominated Supreme Court added another blockbuster case to a term with abortion, guns, religion and COVID-19 on the agenda.

Annual Flying Moose Race is around the bend

Lewiston’s best restaurant refused to serve Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘spiritual mentor’

Fearing a racist response from other diners in 1945, the DeWitt Hotel refused to allow Benjamin Mays, a prominent Bates College graduate who had come to speak in the city, to eat in its public dining room.

More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation

The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents.

Pilot launched to assess racial impact of state legislative bills

The purpose of the statements is to address what many see as systemic racism in state government by considering whether a proposed new law would help, hurt or have no impact on historically disadvantaged racial populations.

Tribes mourn on Thanksgiving: ‘No reason to celebrate’

Thursday’s solemn National Day of Mourning observance in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts, recalled the disease and oppression that European settlers brought to North America.

Thanksgiving Day race around the corner

Auburn’s Leroy Walker apologizes for racist comments

City leaders say they'll form new diversity committee to tackle racial issues in Auburn.

Lewiston leaders call Leroy Walker’s racist comments ‘hurtful and detrimental’

Auburn council member's commentary assailed by elected leaders from Lewiston in a statement issued Friday.

Auburn officials denounce those who questioned naming bridge for John Jenkins

City leaders have been largely silent about call by nation's largest Muslim civil rights group for Leroy Walker to resign following racially-charged comments about Jenkins' skin color.