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“For many elders, watching Black neighborhoods go to war with one another was devastating. Some saw it as a grotesque outgrowth of generations of trauma, this time fueled by tribalism, PTSD, and self-hatred.”

We hosted the second of our summer series of bringing some of the state’s powerhouse women into a virtual room

Minnesota ranks seventh in the country for wind energy generation, which in 2020 accounted for 22 percent of the state’s total energy generation.

Introduction written by Kristy Ornelas For the majority of my life, the faces I saw recreating and educating on the

“This past year, [small businesses] all lost so much, how can we justify Amazon coming out so far ahead?”

The community of Granite Falls (pop. 2,897) is on the banks of the Minnesota River. The town was settled on

Lead for Minnesota is a program that recruits, trains, and places recent college graduates around the state into two-year paid fellowships in or near their home community. There are currently 24 fellows in the 2020 class placed around Minnesota. Here are two of them.

“We have learned how to make lemonade out of lemons.”

If it were profitable, internet providers would be serving more communities.

“We are all related, and that is how we will rebuild.”

“To fix over 500 years of trauma and its impact, we need everyone.”

After the 2020 uprisings, two community-based organizations came together with neighbors to serve community. This is their story.