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Social Issues

China: Qingling Liu Fritz

Qingling Liu Fritz just arrived in Minnesota a few months ago (she is called Ling for short). Ling moved to the Twin Cities on Feb. 8, 2005 from Zhanjiang, People's Republic of China, to marry a Minnesotan, Charles Fritz.

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Guyana: Deo and Shari Outar

Shari Outar, 54, and her husband Deo, 56, came to Minnesota from Guyana in 1987 and live in Maplewood. Shari's two sisters, her brother and her father live in Minnesota.

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India: Krishna Rao

Krishna Rao, 24, is from Madras, India. He's an associate software engineer at Medtronic.

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Somalia: Abdirahman Adan

Abdirahman Adan is a native of Somalia. Adan, 23, came to Minnesota in 1995 with his parents and siblings. They fled their hometown of Mogadishu when war broke out in Somalia, and spent several years in towns in Somalia and Kenya before being accepted into the United States.

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Ethiopia: Solomon Gashaw

Soloman Gashaw is 56 years old. He was born in the Harrar region of Ethiopia, and grew up in the Oromia region.

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Nigeria: Kola Coker

Kola Coker is from the state of Lagos in southwestern Nigeria. He belongs to the Yoruba ethnic group. He came to Minnesota in 2000 and now lives in Champlin with his wife and three of his children.

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Kenya: Peter Kingoina

Peter Kingoina is a native of Kisii, Kenya. He's 52 and a pastor of the Minneapolis Kenyan Adventist Church. He is married and has four children. They live in Andover.

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The fight for racial equality then and now

Civil rights worker Charles Sherrod says that the fight for racial equality is far from over and that the strategies that were so effective during the Civil Rights Movement could still work today.

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Ending poverty

Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, says that while globalization may be dragging some parts of the world out of poverty, there are huge areas of the globe that are being completely passed by. In his new book, "The End of Poverty," Sachs says the richest countries in the world could eradicate extreme poverty worldwide for for less than one percent of their annual gross national products.

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Red Lake tribe preparing to keep kids busy this summer

Young people on the Red Lake Indian Reservation sometimes complain there's little for them to do once school gets out. But this summer, there may be plenty of other activities to keep kids busy. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial help are flowing onto the reservation for summer youth programs. Tribal leaders are now planning ways to use those resources.

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