Counter Stories®

Do people of color have the same perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, Women's History Month and the St. Paul teachers strike?

Close to 100,000 Minnesotans are on probation, some of them for sentences of 20 or 30 years. And simple technical violations — such as missing a meeting with their parole officer — could land them back in prison.

The co-hosts of Counter Stories take on several stories in the news involving race, racism and cultural appropriation.

The Counter Stories team look at the effect of implicit bias and institutional racism on women’s reproductive health.

The debate over the name change of Lake Calhoun to Bde Maka Ska is now before the Minnesota Supreme Court. The case is being viewed as a key example of the importance of restoring Native American names to Minnesotan landmarks.

The last few months Counter Stories has put a spotlight on the issue of violence against women. In this episode we look at murder-suicide in the Hmong community and the erlying cause of these deaths. Hlee Lee, owner of “the other media group” Luz Maria Frias, executive coach and race equity strategist Anthony Galloway, Art-Us Marianne Combs MPR correspondent Don Eubanks, associate professor at Metropolitan State University and cultural consultant And guest: Dr Pang Yang-Rhodes, marriage and family therapist

Most sports fans love their team and will do their best to make sure their team has a ‘winning’ edge. But what happens when fans use racial slurs as a way to ‘put off’ their rivals? How far should fans take sporting rivalry?

DFL State Rep. Mary Kunesh-Podein joined the Counter Stories team to talk about the underreported issue of missing and murdered indigenous women. Kunesh-Podein authored legislation that created the state’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force.

Andrea Jenkins, the first African-American openly transgender woman elected to public office in the U.S., joins the Counter Stories team to highlight the barriers society has placed on the transgender community.

The Counter Stories team looks at the impact of gun violence on families and the community.