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Calling with babies.
September 18, 2014
I don’t have kids myself. Perhaps that is why I am so elated when kiddos come to our office with their parents. Last week we had a little four month
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What’s happening on Grandparents Day
Last weekend, I used “FaceTime” with my Grandma Marion who lives in North Carolina. FaceTime isn’t complicated, it’s just an app on a cell phone that lets you video chat.
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Jobs and Justice 4 All
It’s Labor Day weekend and according to Angela Glover Blackwell Executive Director of PolicyLink, unemployment in the African American community has been a problem for six decades. We are talking about sixty
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We Never Got a First Chance
The other day I had a scary experience that I and many black women experience over the course of our lifetimes. My partner, a dark-skinned, young, African American man, was
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What’s happening in the North Country
It’s been a busy summer in the North Country for TakeAction Minnesota. We wanted to make sure you knew what we’ve been up to, so we’ll be writing a blog
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Locked Up Locked Out
This past Saturday at Locked up Locked out, community members came together to talk about the impact of the criminal justice system on our community. Shvonne Johnson Associate Dean of
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Locked Up Locked Out + Jobs
We know that people with records face barriers to employment, housing and democracy and to add insult to injury, big companies make even BIGGER profits from us — but won’t
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Sharing our stories at Locked Up Locked Out
Jamil Jackson grew up on the North side of Minneapolis with two parents and was active in school and sports. By age 16, Jamil found himself as the man of
