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ENEWS: Teamwork tools for Equity Development – Sports, Arts, Mapping!
Summer Games support closer to home Dear Growth & Justice e-news readers: Two Minnesotans helped the women’s gymnastics team rally for a silver medal this week in the Tokyo Olympics team competition (Grace McCallum of Isanti, MN, and Suni Lee of St. Paul). And now, as one of several dozen partner organizations bringing equity in youth sports and leadership development via Summer Games closer to home, G & J invites you t... Read More
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ENEWS: MN Equity Map & upcoming events
MN Equity Map & social media series We are searching for more stories to add to our Minnesota Equity Map! It functions as a platform to both highlight regional, racial, and environmental equity work happening around the state and connect people who want to create change in their communities. We hope to fill this map with enough stories that it can serve as a powerful tool of collaboration and legislative advocacy. Please fill out... Read More
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ENEWS: Equity stories and June special session
Equity stories in MinnPost MinnPost recently published an article on equity and inclusion efforts happening in rural Minnesota towns. It features a city art project in Monticello, MN that “aims to draw attention to the kind of diversity that exists even in a mostly homogenous city,” then touches on similar efforts around the state. The article also references TRUE Tuesdays, the virtual meetings focused on constructin... Read More
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ENEWS: Remembering George Floyd
Remembering George Floyd, a year later It has now been a year since George Floyd’s life was taken from him on May 25, 2020, creating a wave of protests across the world. People in Minneapolis, as well as many other cities, commemorated his life and death and rallied for change this past week— you can read about it from these Associated Press and Star Tribune articles. If you’d like to watch, MPR also ... Read More
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ENEWS: Census, redistricting, and voting restrictions
Growth & Justice and the census Amidst the hoopla last month of Minnesota emerging as #1 in the country in the census count and saving our congressional seat, we cracked a big smile here at G & J, having been an active participant in the “We Count” campaign and other efforts of the Minnesota Census Mobilization Partnership. G & J President Jane Leonard has served on the Minnesotans for the Amer... Read More
