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7th Annual Immigrant and Minority Farmer Conference

For 4 years now we have attended the Immigrant and Minority Farmer Conference. Our alma mater (so to speak) Minnesota Food Association is one of the host organizations of this conference that in a very real way changed our lives. I remember 4 years ago being so nervous and really clueless about most things agricuutural.MORE »

"Slavery by another name" airing on PBS

On Monday, February 13th, PBS stations will air a 90 minute documentary called “Slavery By Another Name”, based on a book by journalist Douglas Blackmon.MORE »

Mpls Park Board says 'climate' change is underway

Since the MSR’s January 4  article “Black employees call Minneapolis Park Board a ‘toxic workplace,’” Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) officials say they have already undertaken significant changes to the organization’s “internal climate” and there is more to come as “we…acknowledge and address our shortcomings.” Some workers fear the changes will be superficial and fail to go MORE »

Black History Month: It's not just for White folks

There are some who are suggesting that Black History Month is no longer needed. This includes, sadly, some of us Black folk who don’t see this yearly February observance as necessary.MORE »

MN VOICES | From Korea to Minnesota and back: Kelly Fern shares her remarkable double-adoption story

The more you learn about Kelly Fern, the more you want to know. Not only does she tell a moving personal story of being adopted from Korea at age five, she reveals that on the flight to America, her identity was accidentally switched with that of another young adoptee—a circumstance that ultimately resulted in her family adopting three Korean girls, not just the two sisters they'd expected. Further, Fern herself had a child who she gave up for adoption. In the space of less than a year, Fern recently reconnected with both her biological family in Korea and her biological daughter in Minnesota. By this point, you may be thinking Fern should write a book—and, in fact, she has.MORE »

Race to the bottom: Minnesota's health care gap

Here's one of those Minnesota ironies highlighting yet another gap in our community: While Minnesota ranks among the best in overall health quality, we have one of the nation's largest health quality gaps by race.MORE »

American Indian Movement to add cultural center to Dinkytown

From aristocrats to squatters, the Henry B. Frey mansion in Dinkytown has seen many owners, but it may soon become a center for American Indian culture.

The American Indian Movement Interpretive Center will be a cultural hub cradling 6,000-square feet of artifacts, artwork and original documents.MORE »

Nellie Stone Johnson Ski Team building confidence on the slopes

Anyone skiing at Theodore Wirth Park this winter has gotten to know one team very well. Nellie Stone Johnson skiers, decked out in blue and yellow, have become familiar faces on the Wirth ski trails.MORE »

Integration: What is it good for?

How do the FAIR schools in Crystal and downtown Minneapolis exemplify integration? It sounds like a simple question for a magnet school run by the West Metro Education Program – a collaboration between 10 suburban districts and Minneapolis Public Schools, whose purpose it is to encourage school integration and equity.

But the question was met with a blank look from FAIR school principal Kevin Bennett. “What do you mean by integration?” Bennett asked. “People tend to use integration, diversity and equity in a lot of different ways. It would be nice to see what the stated goal is in terms of integrating the school.”MORE »

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