A Vermont literary magazine highlighting "rural LGBTQ+ and [people of color] voices" is offering a prize honoring the memory of a former slave who composed a poem about a colonial-era attack by Indians on a white settlement.
Lucy Terry Prince (c. 1730-1821), a slave who was purchased and freed by a man who later married her during the mid-1750s, composed a poem about a 1746 attack on what the poem calls "Some very valiant men" in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
A new state law in Maine mandating that cable companies offer a-la-carte service has encountered a major setback in court.
U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Torresen ruled Friday that the conglomerate of cable companies suing the state will likely prevail because the law appears to violate the company's First Amendment rights to editorial control, according to the Portland Press Herald.
