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Redlining suit against Chaska’s KleinBank tests limits of bias laws
By Jeffrey Meitrodt, Star Tribune A discrimination lawsuit the U.S. Department of Justice recently filed against a family-owned community bank in the Twin Cities’ western suburbs could become the first test of the government’s ability to...
Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff
Teaching Tolerance - Number 55: Spring 2017 This guide was created for educators, school support staff and service providers who teach, mentor and help open the doors of opportunity for undocumented youth and unaccompanied and refugee children...
Our Cynicism Will Not Build A Movement. Collaboration Will.
by Alicia Garza I’ve been grappling with how to challenge cynicism in a moment that requires all of us to show up differently. On Saturday, I joined more than a million women in Washington, D.C., to register my opposition to the new regime....
Racial Diversity: There’s More Work to be Done in the Workplace
By Terri Williams Racial diversity in the workplace – from recruiting to hiring to promoting people of color – continues to move at an unimpressive pace. And if LinkedIn’s annual workplace diversity report is any indication, the needle is...
Black men nearly 3 times as likely to die from police use of force, study says
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN (CNN) - Gregory Gunn. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Terence Crutcher. Those are just a few of the names of black men who were killed in high-profile police shootings in 2016. Now, as the year comes to an end, a...
Where you live can have a lot to say about your health
By Michael Ollove By many measures, Hawaii is one of the healthiest states in the union. Yet only Mississippi has a higher rate of flu or pneumonia deaths than the Aloha State. West Virginia, usually among the bottom dwellers in state health...
America, Racial Bias Does Exist
By Jeff Nesbit We clearly have a problem in America. When almost 90 percent of white people in America who take the Implicit Association Test show an inherent racial bias for white people versus black people, that means something. When...
National Day of Racial Healing
Dr. Martin Luther King reminded allies for justice that “the arc of history is long, but it always bends toward justice.” These words were perhaps never more important than they are today. As we remember Dr. King today, let us plan...
Combating Income Inequality: 3 Local, Practical Solutions to a National Epidemic
By Aaron Mondry (Read...
Study Shows Deep Racial Divide on How Black, Latino and White Cops View Racial Equality, Police Brutality
By Tanasia Kenney Protesters and police officers seemingly have one thing in common, according to a new survey: Both agree that bad cops aren’t held accountable by the police force for poor performance. A recently released Pew Research...