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Minnesota Youth Poet Laureate

Minnesota Youth Poet LaureateSubmissions open February 1-March 16, 2026 About Minnesota Youth Poet Laureate The Minnesota Youth Poet Laureate (MYPL) celebrates our nation’s top youth poets who are committed to artistic excellence, civic engagement, and social impact. Teen writers (ages 13-19) are invited to submit a portfolio of their original… Read More

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50th Joint Commemoration

50th Joint CommemorationRecognizing the end of the Vietnam War, Secret War in Laos, and Southeast Asian conflict The 50th Joint Commemoration honored the intertwined histories of the Vietnam War, Secret War in Laos, and Southeast Asian conflict and their lasting impacts on the Cambodian, Lao, Hmong, Vietnamese communities and Minnesota… Read More

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Cambodian American Community Partnership

Cambodian American Community PartnershipCelebrate the culture, history, and identity of Minnesota’s Cambodian community. Over the last several years, the Minnesota Humanities Center has partnered with the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans to amplify and celebrate the communities the Council represents. This year our collaboration focuses on supporting the Cambodian American… Read More

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Examining Military Service From the Margins

Examining Military Service From the Margins Despite discrimination and frequent erasure, marginalized groups have continued to serve our country into the present. Examining Military Service From the Margins will bring together Veterans and civilians from Minnesota and beyond to examine the experiences of female, Black, American Indian, LGBT, and… Read More

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Critical Conversations

2023 Wakpa Triennial Art Festival: Critical ConversationsHow do we recognize and build our “networks of mutuality?” As part of the innovative experiences that will take place during the Wakpa Triennial, the Minnesota Humanities Center is partnering with Public Art Saint Paul to host a series of Critical Conversations. This series… Read More

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Minnesota’s Poet Laureate

Minnesota Poet’s LaureateGwen Nell Westerman About the Poet Laureate The Poet Laureate of Minnesota promotes and encourages appreciation of and engagement with poetry. Through poetry, the Poet Laureate celebrates the state’s rich and vibrant cultural heritages, engages young  people, and inspires all generations of poets and readers. After receiving recommendations… Read More

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Many Fronts

Many FrontsVeterans’ and Community Voices Many Fronts: Veterans’ and Community Voices supports Humanities programming that explores the human impact of war and conflict, its historical, social, and political underpinnings, and the voices and narratives that help us to increase our understanding about one another and war. The initiativeaims to provide… Read More

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Black Vision Trust

Black Vision Trust“…I am strong enough to carry him. He ain’t heavy, he’s my Brother.” On December 19, a gathering of over twenty community leaders convened at the Minnesota Humanities Center (MHC) in Saint Paul. Facilitated by Ordway President and CEO Chris Harrington, Ordway Strategic Advisor Robin Hickman-Winfield, and MHC… Read More

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Minnesota Equity & Justice Project

Minnesota Equity & Justice Project Generations of scholars have argued that America will never be whole until reparations are provided for the moral debt created by slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the vestiges of the caste system it created. The international cry for justice after the murder of Mr. Read More

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How Can We Breathe

How Can We BreatheAmplifying African American Voices No healthy democracy can exist when so many of its people are routinely and systematically oppressed. How Can We Breathe was a community engagement initiative where we could come together to make meaning of the Minnesota we’re living in right now – the aftermath of… Read More