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Race: Conversations around race and racial justice

Here are the latest on the fight against racism, voices calling for racial justice and in-depth stories on communities of color and other racial issues from MPR News.

Voices of Minnesota Calls for change across the state

Protests and pain The killing of George Floyd

Call To Mind Spotlight on black trauma and policing

Amplifying voices Share your experiences and hopes for the future

Cast of Santas at Mall of America gets more diverse

Cast of Santas at Mall of America gets more diverse

The Santa Experience at the Mall of America has expanded the variety of Santas — an Asian American Santa who speaks in Cantonese and English; a St. Nick who speaks Spanish and they have two African American Santas — one of whom communicates in sign language.
by Regina Medina and Kerem Yücel

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Future of Us: How the pandemic has and hasn’t changed the ‘Land of 20,000 Nonprofits’

Future of Us: How the pandemic has and hasn’t changed the ‘Land of 20,000 Nonprofits’

Minnesota foundations are giving nonprofits more money and more grace when it comes to jumping through hoops for it. But McKnight Foundation President Tonya Allen says it’s just the beginning of a deeper transformation.
by Tom Crann and Megan Burks

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Prominent Minneapolis civil rights activist reveals battle with brain tumor 

Prominent Minneapolis civil rights activist reveals battle with brain tumor 

Nekima Levy Armstrong revealed that she underwent emergency brain surgery in September. Levy Armstrong said she had been experiencing blurred vision in one eye. She said initial tests indicate the tumor was not cancerous.
by Tim Nelson

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Louisiana voters rejected an antislavery ballot measure. The reasons are complicated

Louisiana voters rejected an antislavery ballot measure. The reasons are complicated

Voters in four states — Vermont, Oregon, Alabama and Tennessee — approved antislavery ballot measures in the 2022 elections. The Louisiana amendment may have failed, in part, because of confusion.
by Kaitlyn Radde

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Slavery, involuntary servitude rejected by 4 states' voters

Slavery, involuntary servitude rejected by 4 states' voters

Voters in four states have approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime, while those in a fifth state rejected a flawed version of the question.
by The Associated Press

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Minnesotans of color gathering for 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' premiere

Minnesotans of color gathering for 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' premiere

“It is not often that when you look at Hollywood or you look at television, children of color can look out and see themselves in a positive light,” said Raazon King, president of a Minnesota chapter of a historically Black fraternity that’s hosting a private screening of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” after it premieres Thursday.
by Linton Ritchie Jr.

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