The cold hard truth: college football can’t escape it
College football all this fall has been celebrating 150 years but the romanticized, celebratory recollections hide the racial myths about Blacks.
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Worst, yet again: racial disparities remain a Black mark for Twin Cities
Once again, In every measurable area, Blacks fared worse than Whites in the Twin Cities metro area.
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Trust level plunges after Kroll embraces Trump
A deeper look at the reaction of Minneapolis Police Lt. Bob Kroll’s embrace of President Trump.
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Volume on xenophobia and racism on blast
Pres. Trump’s statement illustrates how perceptions of birthright, citizenship, ownership, and racial entitlement have upped the volume of xenophobia and racism.
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Studies expose destructive housing inequities
Here in Minnesota, the data suggest housing costs are continuing to rise unabated, which again disproportionately affect communities of color.
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Trump’s attempt to erase Harriet Tubman
The attempted erasure of Tubman represents yet another move in the Trump playbook to disconnect racial reality from White fantasy.
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Highland Park Middle School teacher placed on leave after using ‘racist’ language to describe Black students
A Highland Park High School teacher has been placed on administrative leave after a video surfaced on social media showing the teacher using “racist and foul” language at the school.
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From ‘40 acres and a mule’ to the 2020 election, a brief history of reparation promises
Reparations has emerged as a hot topic among Democratic candidates hoping to replace Trump in 2020. But until now, the issue has only rarely received national attention.
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Sound Off: Are Black Americans due reparations?
With reparations being such a hot-button topic, the MSR was inspired to hit the streets to find out what our communities think.
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Shameful legacies, ongoing neglect
In most American cities throughout the 20th century, people of color, African Americans in particular, were relegated to separate and structurally unequal communities often by means of the practices briefly referenced above.
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