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Levy-Pounds focuses on criminal justice, jobs in launching Mpls. mayoral run

Nekima Levy-Pounds speaks to the crowd.
Nekima Levy-Pounds, president of the Minneapolis NAACP, speaks to the crowd gathered for a Justice for Philando Castile rally outside the St. Anthony Police Department Headquarters on July 10.
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Former law professor and Minneapolis NAACP President Nekima Levy-Pounds will formally announce her run for mayor of Minneapolis Tuesday afternoon.

She told her followers on Twitter of her intent to run Monday night. She plans to hold a news conference in front of the 4th Precinct police station in Minneapolis on the one-year anniversary of the fatal shooting of Jamar Clark, an African-American man, by a white police officer. Both the time and the place are symbolic for Levy-Pounds, who has been a prominent member of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Should she be elected, she plans to make addressing racial inequity a key focus of her administration. She spoke with MPR's Cathy Wurzer.

Click on the audio player above to hear their conversation.