The Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation named five 2025 Facing Race Award honorees—Alexs Pate, Nate Smith, Kathy Sublett, Sai Thao, and Patricia Torres Ray—recognizing statewide leadership that challenges harmful narratives on race and builds inclusive solutions. Livestream Oct 16; details inside.
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Transracial adoptees wish they’d had more guidance
Shannon Gibney, a transracial adoptee and award-winning writer, explores the complexities of race, identity and belonging in her storytelling, while sisters Sarah and Viviana share their personal journeys of adoption, highlighting the often unspoken challenges of transracial adoption.
Posted inHealth + Wellness
 Moving beyond ‘race-based’ medicine to ‘race-conscious’ medicine
Given how widespread racism is in society, it should not be surprising that it affects the science and practice of medicine.
Posted inNational, News
Bans on critical race theory could have a chilling effect on how educators teach about racism
‘How can a teacher in Iowa or Tennessee explain that the U.S. was not ‘fundamentally racist,’ yet at the time of its founding, race-based slavery was legal and stayed that way until after the Civil War?’
Posted inFeatured, Local & State, National, News
Race, intra-racial dynamics at play in Chauvin jury selection
‘Given the race and class dynamics of jury selection it would have been very difficult to seat a jury of working-class Black people.’
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Minority job applicants often face invisible barriers
When analyzing these problems, researchers and others tend to focus on how the experiences of racial minorities compare with those of Whites. Often missing is whether there are differences among individuals of the same racial group in terms of how they experience bias.
Posted inHealth + Wellness
The promise of personalized medicine is not for everyoneÂ
African Americans are underrepresented in large-scale genetic and neuroscience studies