Many colleges are recruiting and enrolling more underrepresented minority students, but a recent report shows that these students are not graduating at as high rates as their peers. Midmorning asks what kind of policy and cultural changes could help these students succeed.
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Two Muslim workers at the Electrolux plant in St. Cloud have filed complaints with the Employee Equal Opportunity Commission over issues regarding the Muslim employees' observance of Ramadan.
The NAACP's resolution condemning racist elements within the tea party has angered people affiliated with the movement, who say that race has nothing to do with their criticism of the Obama administration. Should the tea party be held responsible for the comments and actions of very person who attends their rallies?
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In addition to giant Wall Street firms, the new federal financial reform law will also regulate financial institutions in low-income communities. Payday lenders and predatory mortgage lenders will fall under the oversight of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Cyclists from across the country were in St. Paul this weekend for what's believed to be the first event of its kind: an African American-focused bike festival.
Some consider it a season of enthusiastic
political fervor. Others, like area businesses, might see it as an
annual infestation. Canvassers representing environmental and civil rights nonprofit organizations can now be found all over Dinkytown and Stadium Village.
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The highly publicized Ojibwe Indian "fish-off" on Lake Bemidji this spring has emboldened members of another Minnesota tribe to exercise what they believe to be their fishing rights.
A federal appeals court has granted
Rochester's request for a rehearing of its petition to dismiss
discrimination claims made by two firefighter applicants.
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