50th Anniversary Celebration
The Minnesota Humanities Center is turning 50! Celebrate with the region’s most influential humanities change-makers, scholars, community members, along with nonprofit and business leaders.
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Jessica Rust
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Inwood Oaks 484 Inwood Avenue North, Oakdale, MN, United States
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Online – True Tuesdays: Youth Voice in Decision-Making with Minnesota Youth Council (MYC)
OnlineDid you know that Minnesota youth are the only youth in the nation that have an official voice in legislation? Join us on May 16th to learn about the four key initiatives of the Minnesota Youth Council (MYC) and the work they have done this legislative session in pursuit of a just and equitable Minnesota.
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Minneapolis – Juneteenth Brunch: It Starts With Me with Dr. Bernice A. King, CEO The King Center
Westminster Presbyterian Church 1200 Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesIt Starts With Me Cultivating A Beloved Community Mindset To Transform Unjust Systems brings a fresh perspective to the questions, "Where do we go from here?" and "How do we overcome economic inequities and injustices in our world house?"
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Rochester – Kumbayah The Juneteenth Story
Mayo Civic Center 30 Civic Center Drive SE, Rochester, MN, United StatesKumbayah The Juneteenth Story written by Rose McGee is a 90-minute fictitious, two-act play that addresses a factual and traumatic time in our history – when news was deliberately withheld that Black people were no longer to be kept as slaves in this country. Storytelling and music weave together mesmerizing scenes.
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Online – True Tuesday: Coordinating a Multifaith Response to Hate Based Discrimination and Violence in MN
OnlineHow can religious leaders and community organizations collectively work to effectively address hate and divisiveness in Minnesota? Professor Najeeba Sayeed, El-Hibri Endowed Chair and Executive Director of Interfaith at Augsburg share the process and results from the July 20th convening as well as her own work toward countering and preventing religious based discrimination and violence, particularly with an anti-Muslim bias.
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Minneapolis – Westminster Town Hall Forum: Arc Toward Justice 2024
Westminster Presbyterian Church 1200 Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesWesley Lowery is the author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress. It tells the story of how the election of the nation’s first Black president fanned long-burning embers of white supremacy. Following the police killing of Michael Brown, Lowery launched Fatal Force — a real-time national database of people shot and killed by the police.
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Minneapolis – Juneteenth Brunch & Conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill
Quincy Hall 1325 Quincy St NE, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesSherrilyn Ifill is the current Vernon Jordan Professor of Law of Civil Rights at Howard University School of Law and was the former President and Director–Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (LDF). Her book, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century, is credited with laying […]
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