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In life, friends come and go. Some friendships begin in childhood. Others come to be after we’re adults. Rarely do they span decades or a lifetime.

Trauma expert and therapist Resmaa Menakem and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison have been close friends most of their lives. They met in their 20s, before their careers took off. They even hosted a community radio show together on KMOJ in Minneapolis for a decade. 

Each is a successful Minnesotan in his own right and in tough times they have leaned on each other.

MPR News host Angela Davis kicks off a series called “Power Pairs.” It’s about people you might know separately, but when you get them together, you discover a different side of them.

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MPR News host Angela Davis kicks off a series called “Power Pairs.” It’s about people you probably have heard of separately, but when we sit them down together, you see a different side of them. First up, a nationally-known trauma expert and a state politician who are longtime friends.

Lessons about friendship from two prominent Minnesotans

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