Two-term U.S. Representative Bruce Poliquin, the only Republican member of Congress in New England, got about 2,000 more votes than his nearest competitor, a Democrat, on election day last week.
Left-wing activists who want Faneuil Hall in Boston renamed because its donor and namesake was a slave trader in the 1700s staged a reenactment of a slave auction Saturday outside the building known as the Cradle of Liberty.
Adrian Walker, who is black, argues in The Boston Globe that the slave auction was counterproductive.
