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Skowhegan has a chance to break shackles of acceptable racism

June 4, 2015 By Ed Rice

Skowhegan has a chance to break shackles of acceptable racism

By Ed Rice, Special to the Bangor Daily News Well-publicized across the state, the Skowhegan-area school board, by a narrow 11-9 vote in early May, rejected an appeal by Maine’s four Native American tribes to end the use of their inappropriate nickname and mascot. For the time being, those 11 school board members have thumbed their noses at more than 30 other Maine communities and public schools that have ended such usage over the past decade. Skowhegan is the only school in Maine not to … [Read more...]

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