Equity

Minnesota Women Labor Journalists Uplifted Working People for Decades

11/29/2023

I’m still learning about the writers I’ve mentioned here, many of whom are left out of the usual lists of pioneering journalists and women.

Restoring (Some of) Turtle Island

09/27/2023

According to the TRUTH Project research, the U.S. government paid the Dakota two cents per acre in 1851. Circle News reported the land was then sold for 251 times that amount.

Developing the Ethnic Studies Curriculum

09/27/2023

Studies show that when students participate in ethnic studies, they are more engaged when their curriculum reflects diverse — not monolithic — backgrounds.

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2022 Changemaker Seraphia Gravelle (Aguallo): Racial Justice on the Iron Range

11/29/2022

Seraphia Gravelle (Aguallo) outside of the VEMA Multicultural…

2022 Changemaker Somali Sisters Network: Culture Shifters

11/29/2022

(L-R) Sadia Ali, Safiya Ali, Farhiyo Hashi, Anisa Haji, and…

Gloria Perez: Investing in Women and Girls

11/04/2022

The hardest part of the work Women’s Foundation is doing, Perez adds, is “changing the hearts and minds of people who do not see the barriers up close. Unless we change hearts and minds, actions won’t follow.”

Stepping Out for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Candidates

10/12/2022

Supporters of women of color and LGBTQ+ legislative candidates came out to celebrate the intersectional movement

Talking Politics With Disabled Community Members

10/04/2022

Local advocate Judy Moe, Director of the Richfield Disability…

When Two Schools Merged

09/27/2022

“This experience was core to shaping my identity.”

August 2022 In the News: Transforming Justice

08/24/2022

“It became clear to me that any program addressing the violence women had committed would also need to address the aggression and violence they had personally experienced.”

Breathing In and Out: Another Era of Care

07/28/2022

What could have been, had the biomedical model not been held up as the only legitimate pathway to healing?

Drug Overdose Rates Rising in Minnesota

07/22/2022

Drug overdose deaths are rising more rapidly among Black and Indigenous Americans than they are among white people — and Minnesota’s disparities are the worst in the nation.

Shot of Influence

06/25/2022

A group of ten women entrepreneurs are featured in…

The “YIMBY” vs. “NIMBY” Movement

05/28/2022

They did not want ‘those’ kids near ‘their’ kids.

VIEW: Heartbroken, Yet Hopeful, About Housing for All Minnesotans

05/23/2022

A new 'preventing homelessness' committee member asked a panel of ten people to reflect on when they could have made a choice differently to avoid homelessness. That was his idea of prevention. In 2020, 350 Minnesotans died outside. Some of them were babies.

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