Race/Ethnicity

Khary Jackson's "Any Psalm You Want": Moving multicultural mantras

By Jay Gabler, Front Row Seat

I spend a lot of time thinking about how creative writing will adapt to, with, and through the move from print to digital—but with Khary Jackson's Any Psalm You Want, I was presented with a book of poetry that feels fresh and contemporary despite being printed on old-fashioned paper (that is, on any paper at all).

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On Lao New Year and the diaspora: Q&A with Saengmany Ratsabout

By Ketmani Kouanchao, Little Laos on the Prairie

Saengmany Ratsabout is our guest blogger for this week’s series on Lao New Year, so LLOTP caught up with him to chat about his work.

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'Sistah Solo': Celebrating women of color through art, dance, hip-hop and spoken word

By Sheila Regan, Minnesota Women’s Press

(Photo by BFresh Photograph)

"Beware of people who have vision who can execute," says Maia Maiden, the force behind "Sistah Solo," an evening of performances featuring women of color at Patrick's Cabaret in Minneapolis.

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Profiles in excellence: Justin Terrell rages against the machine with Justice 4 All campaign

By Harry Colbert, Jr., Insight News

The system is broken and it needs to be fixed.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Juneteenth Film Festival seeks submissions from minority filmmakers

By Juneteenth Film Initiative, Community Voices

We are the Juneteenth Film Initiative, a new Midwest organization whose prime goal is to celebrate and highlight diversity in film. On April 4 we launched our website, and along with it, an announcement that there's a new film festival in town. The JFI Festival will run in conjunction with the Minneapolis Juneteenth Festival, a yearly community mainstay that celebrates the emancipation act. We hope to give the Twin Cities a fresh new spin on film; one that celebrates freedom behind the lens. We will kick off our festival this June 13-16, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Sabaidee Pi Mai and our Lao community

By Sunny Chanthanouvong, Sunny's Side of Life

Sabaidee Pi Mai! Happy Lao New Year!

I want to personally invite everyone to come join us for the traditional Lao New Year this month on Saturday, April 13th at the Crystal Community Center in Crystal, Minnesota from 9 AM to Midnight. From 2-6 we will have the Nangsankanh and traditional dance and talent show, with live music and entertainment from 7 until midnight. The tickets are $15 but free for youth under 18. 

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Minnesota for Marriage affiliate drags in Hitler references

By Staff, American Jewish World

Representatives from Shir Tikvah Congregation, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC), Jewish Community Action (JCA), the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Temple of Aaron, and Plymouth Congregational Church, among others, publicly condemned the use of Nazi references by Minnesotans for Marriage in its efforts to oppose same-sex marriage.

Last Friday, March 29, representatives from Shir Tikvah Congregation, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC), Jewish Community Action (JCA), the Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Temple of Aaron, and Plymouth Congregational Church, among others, hosted a press conference to condemn the use of Nazi references in Minnesota for Marriage’s efforts to oppose same-sex marriage.

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Jewish Arts Lab, or why I'm a Jewish artist

By Shana Cohen, TC Jewfolk

At our recent Laboratory last Thursday, I asked the participants to write a six-word memoir on being a Jewish Artist. There was one that really stood out to me: “Artist everywhere, Jew not always present.”

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OUR STORIES | Vangeline Ortega: "Brother, can you spare a kidney?"

By Vangeline Ortega, TC Daily Planet

Vangeline Ortega tells her story, and asks you to do two things: Sign an organ donation form. And get tested for diabetes — especially if you are a person of color.

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