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Maine Public: Survey: Younger Mainers Lack Basic Knowledge About The Holocaust
Shenna Bellows, the executive director of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, says that while she was glad to see that a large majority of people felt that it…
Read MoreThe Free Press: Who Will Claim This Sign?
Early last month someone spray-painted a red swastika on a hand-painted Black Lives Matter sign in front of Louisa Carl’s home on Poors Mill Road in Waldo. Carl’s two sons…
Read MoreWMTW: ‘Vision 2020’ projects aim to honor Black and Brown Mainers
Their intent is to share, what they call, a ‘complete’ and ‘truthful’ history of Maine to ensure, as they put it, “the vision of Maine’s history and future is 2020.”
Click here for more information or to nominate someone:https://hhrcmaine.org/vision2020/
Read MoreMaine Public: Racial Justice: Maine Joins The Nation in Protesting Racial Injustice And Police Brutality
The death of George Floyd and other similar cases of racial injustice and police brutality have prompted outrage and protests across the country and in Maine. We talk with community…
Read MoreWABI: HHRC of Maine calling on public to nominate black and brown heroes
“Black and brown people have shaped Maine’s history in important ways that deserve our attention and appreciation and celebration and that’s what we hope to do in this project,” Shenna…
Read MoreHHRC Board Members Spiegel and Huynh in the BDN: Racism is a virus too
“Stereotypes about people of Asian descent date back centuries in the United States to when Chinese migrants first started to arrive in significant numbers in the 1800s. Racist cartoons of the time falsely depicted…
Read MoreCourier-Gazette: Sheriff says he became a cop in response to bullies
Trafton recently took part in a panel discussion on domestic violence along with four survivors of abuse at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine in Augusta. The event…
Read MoreThe Telegraph: ‘You cannot be in a relationship with someone who makes you afraid, but I didn’t know how to leave Don McLean’
Patrisha, 60, is adamant that these stories – like her own abusive relationship with American Pie singer Don – are no longer overlooked. It is for that reason that she has created Finding Our…
Read MoreBoston.com: In Maine, a celebrity domestic violence case continues to send out ripples
Patrisha McLean has reinvented herself as an organizer for abused women in the state, creating a traveling exhibit, “Finding Our Voices.” In the exhibit, women — some of them, like her,…
Read MoreNew York Times: In Maine, a Celebrity Domestic Violence Case Continues to Send Out Ripples
At the Holocaust and Human Rights Center in Augusta on Oct. 10, the exhibit’s host read aloud, to laughter from the audience, the contents of a letter from Mr. McLean’s…
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