Media Partner Roundup 9/15: Real talk for African Americans in corporate America, keeping it local and more

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Aim High: Scholarships and Lao American students
In Little Laos on the Prairie this week, an article discusses scholarship opportunities and information for Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) students looking to go to college and why they are so important to the future of the community. With “barely 1 in 10” AAPI students graduating from college and much fewer going on to higher education, these scholarships can make a difference. This excerpt says it all:
As a community we need to do what we can to make the process easier for our youth and returning students, and one way we can support them is to help them identify good scholarships they’re eligible for. Read the rest of the story here. Real talk series for African Americans in corporate America launches in Minneapolis
This week in the Spokesman Recorder, Charles Hallman writes about “Accelerating Impact for Black People,” a conference held at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Mia) this past weekend. Continue Reading

Partner News Roundup 9/9: Update on Sandra Bland, environmental injustice and more

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HOUSTON – Will there be justice for Sandra Bland? Jerry Ford II with the Spokesman Recorder gives the update on the Sandra Bland case, as well as the city’s response (or lackthereof) to violence against African Americans, including children going back to school. Read the full story here. “What I don’t understand is since you are charged with enforcing the law, you get special treatment and you get special training, but still you weren’t able to tell me what the law was,” said [Jolanda] Jones. WHITE EARTH – White Earth members voice pipeline concerns

In The Circle this week, John Enger with MPR news lays out  the concerns over a proposed reroute of the Line 3 oil pipeline. Continue Reading

Queer art is anything but a drag

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In the lobby of Intermedia Arts on Lyndale Avenue, chalkboards almost as tall as the high ceiling display vast maps of written pleas and assertions from its patrons. They resound with many handwritten hashtags relating to Black Lives Matter, such as #ICANTBREATHE and #HIREDONTFIRE. Sharing the same chalkboard space is #TRANSLIVESMATTER. These chalkboards are the living wallpaper of activists, and this lobby and the space to which it leads are better because of them. The acts of terrorism against African Americans like the Charleston shooting and the high rate of attempted suicide among transgender people are remembered at the same time. Continue Reading