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Equity

From Malcolm X to ICE: Echoes from Earlier Generations on Resistance

Sagirah Shahid offers details of the histories that led up to this moment in Minnesota, centering the roots of the Black Muslim and Black power movements of the early 20th century — and a 1951 petition.
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COLUMN: Centering the Most Impacted

How do we continually reimagine traditional processes to center leadership so the voices of those most impacted are providing leadership, not simply input?
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Recognizing Four Other Changemaking Voices This Year

Changemakers recognition is usually given to people who tend to be unknown outside of their immediate communities, and who have not yet appeared in our pages. This year we wanted to give recognition to two people for lifetime achievements as they step into retirement (Sue Abderholden and Pamela Zeller), Nekima Levy Armstrong and the impactful Target boycott protesting their pullback from diversity pledges, and the PFund Foundation for trans health.
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UPDATED HOUSING STORY: How New Life Grows in an Underinvested Neighborhood

“When our housing developers come from within our communities, they know and they see first-hand the ways in which our housing system leaves our people behind, and those developers are in a unique position to come to the table with innovative solutions and better housing options. This project is a great example of a community-aware project.”
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Rukia Abdi: How Community Energy Futures Is Powering the Current Generation

  Q: What does Cooperative Energy Futures (CEF)…
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Healing the Wounds of History: The Saint Paul Reparations Commission

Because of this work, we were recognized in 2024 by the Economic Policy Initiative as one of the top five states in reparations task forces and truth-telling commissions.
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Whose Humanity Is Worth Telling? A Call for Racial Equity in Media Narratives

By repeatedly framing white violence as aberration and Black behavior as pathology, media coverage distorts public perception. It upholds the myth that white violence is understandable — even forgivable — while Black pain and Black humanity remain invisible.
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Navigating the Divide: Cooperation in the Age of Division

"In this age of fear, cooperation is more necessary — and more revolutionary — than ever. My hope is that we continue to build cooperatives that are authentically by us and for us, spaces where everyone can thrive, not merely survive."
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In Honor of George Floyd, a Community Discussion Was Held in North Minneapolis

“If there was a hospital in Hennepin County that had high rates of infection, we would all be saying, ‘What’s going on in that hospital?’ No one would accuse us of being anti-hospital or anti-doctor because we want to figure out what the problem is."
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Nancy Lyons: “You just need to care enough to show up”

"I want every queer kid, every working mom, every activist, every person who's ever been underestimated, to hear that you don't need a title or a position or a fancy business card. To lead, you just need to care enough to show up."
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Nekima Levy Armstrong Closes 40th Anniversary Celebration With Power

"There are reasons to be discouraged, but read stories of people who came before us."
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Book Review: How Erasing Women from American Narratives has Reinforced Inequity

"While much of We the Men is a sobering account of centuries of discrimination and propaganda, it also offers a path forward."
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TAPESTRY: Voices on Feminist Legacy

Josefina Gerónimo: Mujerismo Influence As a Chicana, my life…
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Our Special “Know Your Rights” Issue, in Collaboration With Unidos MN

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Progress and Pain in Politics

I believe after the breakdown, it can be women leaders of both parties to lead the way through.
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