Bob CollinsClementa C. Pinckney, the church leader, provides a fascinating background on the church and its meaning in this video posted online.
Pinckney was one of those killed.
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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Tag: Racism
The Dallas Morning News reports today a 19-year-old African-American woman says racist comments at her party at the community pool started things rolling. Read more →
The National Spelling Bee preliminary round is being held today, and its officials are confronting the racism that has accompanied it in recent years.
Indian American children have won the spelling bee for seven straight years and 11 of the last 15.
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There are still a few weeks left in the Minnesota legislative session, but there’s a frontrunner in the gaffe-of-the-year competition who may be difficult to beat. Read more →
When Target Field was built, the Minnesota Twins placed a statue of Calvin Griffith on the plaza. It still doesn’t sit well with some people, the latest of whom is Jack Moore, who writes on Vice Sports that Jackie Robinson day yesterday would have been a good day to tear it down.
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Perhaps one way to curb xenophobia is to stop giving it a megaphone. Read more →
At the invitation of Starbucks new program to encourage its customers to have a conversation and debate about race, Quartz writers Melvin Backman and Zach Wener-Fligner have a question to start: ‘ What’s the deal with you and predominantly white neighborhoods, Starbucks?’
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Starbucks is serving up a conversation about racism while making your coffee. Read more →
In the wake of its story yesterday about resistance to affordable housing in the suburbs, the Star Tribune rightly editorializes today for affordable housing that’s not concentrated in existing areas of poverty.
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Looking for the racists at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City? They’re up in the luxury boxes. Read more →
The story of the Prior Lake girl who was bullied with racist taunts is plenty troubling. So is the allegation that the father of the alleged bullies excused his kid’s behavior by noting he uses the “N word” around the house all the time.
But one lingering question is plenty troubling, too. Why did it take the posting of a YouTube video for Brad Knudson to get some measure of satisfaction?
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Last month, a Cretin-Derham High School basketball player went to the free-throw line in a game against White Bear Lake High School when someone in the stands made ‘racially motivated noises,’ the Pioneer Press reports. Read more →
The controversy over a Big Stone County Republican official’s anti-Muslim comments escalated a bit today when it was reported that Jack Whitley has been fired from his day job. Read more →
The snowstorm couldn’t have come at a better time for KSTP in the aftermath of its ill-fated decision last Thursday to run a police-union-inspired story claiming Mayor Betsy Hodges was flashing gang signs with Navell Gordon, a young man with whom she was participating in a get-out-the-vote door-knocking effort.
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The Washington Post is courageously tackling a word that it can’t even use in its article today — the ‘N word.’ The paper today rolled out a huge series examining the use of the word.
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