Maine commission presents landmark 'anti-racist agenda'
For the first time in six months, a half dozen cameras rolled and a dozen reporters listened outside the Statehouse Sept. 14 as the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous and Maine Tribal Populations released its final report.
Once routine, such news conferences vanished along with much of the rest of public life when the pandemic hit home in March.
The Statehouse has been closed to the public since then; the only people inside the building have been lawmakers and selected staff. The House staffer who organized the in-person gathering mentioned that for a colleague, hired in June, it was the first time she’d seen the inside of the Capitol.
Yet it was not only the “live” news conference that was unusual but the subject of the report: a response to the Black Lives Matter protests that have enveloped the nation and dramatically changed the debate about racism in America.
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