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In life, friends come and go. Some friendships begin in childhood. Others form in adulthood. It’s rare for a friendship to span decades or even a lifetime.

But a long-term friendship is exactly what sustains prominent Minnesotans Resmaa Menakem and Keith Ellison.

Listen back to the first episode in our Power Pairs series  — conversations with Minnesotans you may know individually, but in the context of relationship, you get to know them in a fresh new way. 

Trauma expert and therapist Resmaa Menakem and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison have been close friends since they met in their 20s, long before their careers took off. They even hosted a community radio show together, on KMOJ in Minneapolis, for a decade.

They tell MPR News host Angela Davis how they’ve leaned on each other in tough times.

Know two Minnesotans who have a close relationship and lean on each other for support in the work they do? Maybe they’re married or siblings or best friends. They could be business partners or a parent/adult child dynamic duo. We want to hear their stories on MPR News with Angela Davis at 9 a.m. weekdays.

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MPR News host Angela Davis revisits her very first Power Pair conversation. Resmaa Menakem and Keith Ellison talk about how their friendship formed long before either of them were nationally known and how that friendship sustains their justice work.

Resmaa Menakem and Keith Ellison talk about how their friendship formed long before either of them were nationally known and how that friendship sustains their justice work.

Power Pair: Lessons about friendship from Resmaa Menakem and Keith Ellison

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