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Mpls YWCA: It’s time to discuss ‘White fragility’

October 17, 2018 - by Dwight Hobbes - 2 Comments.

As of 2017, Minnesota’s unenviable track record made it the nation’s second-most unequal state (just after Wisconsin). An inRead study measured disparity gaps between Black and White residents in, amongst other areas, unemployment, income, education and homeownership.

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The Black community is under siege

October 8, 2018October 9, 2018 - by Nekima Levy Armstrong, Esq - 1 Comment

I am struck by the fact that five of the six people I am referencing seemingly died too soon. It begs the question of whether the environment that we are living in is killing us?