RACIAL & SOCIAL INJUSTICE
With unemployment insurance back in the news, as a governmental response to the economic impacts of Covid-19, here's a look back at what it is and why it matters.
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More than 533,000 Minnesotans live in households below the federal poverty threshold, and a new report cites major gaps in racial disparity.
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The roots of racial housing segregation in Minneapolis can be found in nearly century-old illegal real estate covenants. While the covenants are no longer enforceable, their impact lives on.
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Invoking Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's name, a coalition of groups across the country and in Minnesota is promising a massive wave of non-violent civil disobedience action this spring…
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“We have to find another tool for resistance aside from the bodies of Black youth.” — Me’Lea Connelly, director of the Association for Black Economic Power (ABEP), which formed after…
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Dr. Bernice A. King, youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King is in the Twin Cities to carry on her father's work with a program…
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How can parks be used to bring about racial and economic justice? It's a hot issue in the Minneapolis Park Board races and the focus of this month's Civic Buzz…
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A "Shark Tank"-style national competition in Minneapolis has awarded cash to three Somali entrepreneurs whose inventions will benefit both their local communities and Somalia.
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Signatures are being collected this month asking Indiana University officials to remove a painting on the Bloomington campus that depicts a cross burning by the Ku Klux Klan.
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Ten hate groups operate in Minnesota, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate-group activity nationwide. Minnesotans are organizing to oppose the hate groups.
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