Todd R. Nelson is a retired educator who lives in Penobscot. His books of essays, “Cold Spell” and “The Land Between the Rivers,” are published by Down East Books.

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Kat, whose legal full name was Jasmine Katranne Pringle, learned at a young age not just to weather cruel circumstances, but ...

Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, ...

Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" rang out in the air on the night of Dec. 1 in downtown Montgomery as a crowd of about 40 people gathered for a unity walk at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial ...

The city of Lafayette, Louisiana, held a ceremony to honor the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic act of defiance. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, ...