discrimination

Auburn's St. Dominic Academy brought the lawsuit about a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Maine could not bar religious schools from receiving state funding as part of a "town tuitioning" program, which paid for students from certain towns to attend other public or private schools.

A federal judge in Maine has declined to grant a religious school in Bangor emergency relief from a state law that prohibits discrimination by schools that accept public funding. But the judge acknowledged that the case likely has a long legal trajectory.

Maine's Attorney General has filed a civil rights complaint against a New Hampshire man who allegedly threatened a Black man at the Oxford Casino in April.

Crosspoint Church, the operator of Bangor Christian Schools, argues new rules were intentionally created so that the school could not receive tuition payments.

David Ako Annan, an immigrant from Ghana, said he sued the Eastern Maine Medical Center because his supervisor discriminated against him for being Black and male.

Supporters say the language would prohibit schools or workplaces from policing the hair styles of students and workers, which they say disproportionately affects people of color.

Mary Lee, 64, of Gardiner accused a supervisor and at least one co-worker of making comments that have created a hostile work environment for the past seven years.

The horror over the killing of several Asian women in Georgia has called attention to the anti-Asian violence and discrimination happening all over the…

A superior court judge has found that a Native American employee of Day's Jewelers was subjected to a hostile work environment during the many years he…

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