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Candidate Azrin Awal hopes to become first Asian American to win Duluth City Council office

Candidate Azrin Awal hopes to become first Asian American to win Duluth City Council office

Azrin Awal, 25, serves on the Duluth NAACP Board and has advocated around issues of sexual violence and housing access. While Awal collected the most votes in August’s DFL primary, she says her campaign has run into anti-Islamic bigotry on Facebook.
by Hibah Ansari

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Mexico's new head consul in St. Paul stresses service, stronger ties

Mexico's new head consul in St. Paul stresses service, stronger ties

Ivan Roberto Sierra Medel serves as the official representative of Mexico for Mexican citizens across a swath of the Upper Midwest. MPR News spoke to him recently about his new job.
by Vicki Adame

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The heartache and grief of losing your parents' language

The heartache and grief of losing your parents' language

MPR Host Angela Davis talks about the trauma and grief of losing an ancestral language and how people are working to preserve and reclaim their heritage language.
by Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom

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Georgia murder trial in killing of Ahmaud Arbery seen as test case for racial justice

Georgia murder trial in killing of Ahmaud Arbery seen as test case for racial justice

Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed as he jogged through a neighborhood near Brunswick, Ga., in 2020. Three white men in pickup trucks pursued him and then confronted him.
by Debbie Elliott and Russell Lewis

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A new museum in Nashville centers the artistry of Black musicians

Nashville has long been associated with country music. But a museum devoted to African American music, which opened earlier this year, sets the record straight about the city's diversity.
by Ambriehl Crutchfield

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College cites 'scientific racism,' renames Linnaeus building

A private college in Minnesota has renamed its arboretum that originally honored an 18th century Swedish botanist who has been lambasted for promoting racist scientific theory, school officials said Tuesday.
by The Associated Press

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