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Particularly in policing, but in every facet of civic life, what we need is to recenter the forming of partnerships as the heart of the activity, as both the means and the end.

If the guiding light is “What did America look like in the mid-19th century?,” we are screwed.

We are all survivors of the human condition. All of us are attempting to make our way through the world. If we could go across the room and ask everybody to tell us “what makes you happy, what makes you sad, what challenge you have had in life, what success you have had, what makes you tick” — three things would happen.

While there is plenty of bad news out there about climate change, Bill McKibben — who founded 350.org — published

How you can help me is get me in front of people who think that I am odd, and I will show them that I am not.

No one can do a recovery process alone. Whether it be a chosen family, or people with similar backgrounds, or a neighbor’s care and concern, or a neighborhood watch, human connection accompanies recovery.

The more people with disabilities like myself can tell our stories and be involved publicly, the better off we will be at the end of this legislative session.

Black women are not perfectionists because this is an innate personality trait, but because of the larger system of race-based discrimination we operate within.

After the murder of George Floyd, community members who had been involved in earlier work for police reform returned to the agreement that had been negotiated with police and city representatives in 2003 to understand what more can be done today.

Minnesota Women’s Press columnist Ellie Krug collects stories of kindness, pain, and support from around the country. Here is some

“It created community. People began looking at each other in the eye.”

The fight for legal equality for all persons continues at both the state and federal levels.