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Windom braces for impact as HyLife plans to close hog slaughtering plant

More than a thousand workers at the Windom hog slaughtering plant, Hylife, face their last day of work Friday. MPR News Host Cathy Wurzer talked with Gabby Nelson and Maria Guerrero, who are helping workers affected by the Windom Hylife plant layoffs.
by Cathy Wurzer and Ellen Finn

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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara on his first six months on the job and what's next

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara on his first six months on the job and what's next

As the first chief appointed after George Floyd died under a Minneapolis police officer's knee, O'Hara is entrusted with changing the culture within MPD as the world watches.
by Cathy Wurzer and Gretchen Brown

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Lavender Magazine's First Military Recruitment Ad

It has been over a decade since Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed. The policy was issued under President Clinton in 1993, and it prohibited openly gay, lesbian and bisexual recruits from serving in the military. MPR News Host Cathy Wurzer talked with Lavender CEO Stephen Rocheford and Major General Shawn Manke about the first national guard recruitment ad to be printed in a publication for the LGTBQ+ community.
by Cathy Wurzer and Britt Aamodt

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For 25 years, program has created brotherhood for Black high school seniors

For 25 years, program has created brotherhood for Black high school seniors

Nine Twin Cities high school students began a “voyage to manhood” six months ago through Rites of Passage, a leadership program under African American-led nonprofit Jack and Jill of America.
by Nicole Ki

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More LGBTQ+ people can now give blood, but Minnesota donation centers say the change could take months

More LGBTQ+ people can now give blood, but Minnesota donation centers say the change could take months

While the FDA’s new guidance means that more people could give blood, it hasn't yet been implemented at donation centers in Minnesota, and across the country. Experts say that it could take months to implement the new guidance. 
by Michelle Wiley

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Inequality even in death: Mankato project finds racial covenants in a cemetery and beyond

Inequality even in death: Mankato project finds racial covenants in a cemetery and beyond

A Mankato project found racial covenants in seven neighborhoods and a cemetery. The city council recently voted to condemn racial covenants and now is pursuing the discharge of discriminatory language from property deeds.
by Hannah Yang

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Folk and blues legend Lead Belly’s Minneapolis private party

Folk and blues legend Lead Belly’s Minneapolis private party

Folk and blues singer Huddie Ledbetter performed a short concert at a friend’s Minneapolis home in 1948. Instead of being lost in music history, someone decided to record it.
by Cathy Wurzer, Britt Aamodt, Jamal Allen and Robbie Mitchem

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A Native radio station's long, influential reach after Wounded Knee

A Native radio station's long, influential reach after Wounded Knee

It’s been 40 years since the Midwest’s first Native American radio station went on the air. KILI Radio on the Pine Ridge reservation serves as an inspiration for many Minnesotans, including Alfred Walking Bull of Minneapolis.
by Todd Melby and Melissa Olson

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U of M study focuses on Minnesota's urban coyotes

U of M study focuses on Minnesota's urban coyotes

In late spring, coyote pups spend their first few weeks of life hunkered in dens — some of which are tucked in Minnesota’s various urban parks.
by Cathy Wurzer and Alanna Elder

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