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Resistance, Resilience, & Reimagination

Resistance, Resilience, & ReimaginationTeacher Mentorship for Teachers of Color and American Indian Teachers Join teachers of color and American Indian teachers from across the state in a year-long program designed to engage participants in navigating education systems with resistance, resilience, and reimagination. Contact Us Corey China… Read More

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Alabama Civil Rights Field Study

Alabama Civil Rights Field StudyJoin Us for a Transformative Journey through Civil Rights History Minnesota Humanities Center Presents: The Alabama Civil Rights Field Study August 4-10, 2024 | Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery, and Tuskegee, Alabama  Registration for this offering is closed. Questions? Eden Bart eden@mnhum.org Sung… Read More

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There IS A Balm In Gilead National Conference (MN Educator Track)

There IS A Balm In Gilead National Conference Minnesota Educator Track The Modern Civil Rights Movement forced the nation to re-think, re-examine, and re-structure how it dealt with issues of race, justice, and citizenship. Join Minnesota educators at the national conference, There IS a Balm in Gilead: Healing from… 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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BIPOC Educator Institute

BIPOC Educator InstituteNavigating & Thriving You’re Invited! Come join other early career teachers of color and American Indian teachers (TOCAIT) from across Minnesota for an intensive Educator Institute experience that is designed to engage participants in navigating education systems with Resistance, Resilience and Reimagination. Contact Us Corey China… 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.” Professional Development Public Programs Partnerships Grants Books and Videos On December 19, a gathering of over twenty community leaders… 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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The Slaveholders of Payne-Phalen

The Slaveholders of Payne PhalenA Discussion with Author Dr. Christopher Lehman Did you know slavery’s reach into Minnesota extended well beyond Dred Scott at Fort Snelling? Have you ever wondered why streets on the East Side of Saint Paul are named for southern flowers? From the 1840s through the… Read More

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Understanding Our Duluth Lynchings

Understanding Our Duluth LynchingsRacial Violence in America and the Road to Justice and Reconciliation This virtual event commemorated one of the most horrific moments of racial violence in Minnesota history—the June 15, 1920 lynching of three young Black men, Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie in Duluth—and examined… Read More

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Write on Race to be Right on Race ™

Write on Race to be Right on RaceFrom passive non-racism to active anti-racism About This Program Minnesota communities are grappling with understanding and dismantling systemic racism. The Minnesota Humanities Center and Love & Struggle are partnering to help regional hubs develop action plans to create a more just society. Using… Read More