RACIAL & SOCIAL INJUSTICE
Community members and nonprofits gathered at the Minnesota Capitol on Thursday to launch Our Mnisota: A Shared Vision for a Racially Equitable State.
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We live in an era of mass incarceration where the United States has the highest rate of imprisonment in the world. The ACLU has brought together both national and local…
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“My job is not to fix black boys," says Michael Walker, the man who is in charge of the relatively new office of Black Male Student Achievement in Minneapolis schools.…
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171 homeless people died on Minnesota streets this year. This vigil gave dignity, voice and recognition to their names.
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A new report says child care is more than a family can afford in almost every state. For single parents in Minnesota it can be more than half their income.…
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"So can we talk about race?" asked Vivian Jenkins-Nelsen to a nearly all-white League of Women Voters gathering at a south Minneapolis restaurant. The co-founder of the INTER-RACE Institute, a…
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Starting today, more than 280,000 Minnesotans will see bigger paychecks thanks to the state’s new minimum wage increase.
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"United for Philando" chanted many of the thousands of people showed up for the funeral of Philando Castile, the man police killed at a traffic stop which set off a…
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Ericka Cullars-Golden has lost one son to suicide and another was killed by police. Attending a rally to support relatives of Philando Castile was a way of working through her…
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The line of people wanting to speak just kept growing. NAACP Minneapolis President Nekima Levy-Pounds had called a 10am news conference outside of Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton's residence to urge…
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