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How to change how we teach history

How to change how we teach history

A historian and an education policy scholar walk us through the problems with how we teach history in this country and how to improve curriculum.
by Kerri Miller, Kelly Gordon and Breann Schossow

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Two friends. One stranger. And a chance encounter on a sailboat.

Two friends. One stranger. And a chance encounter on a sailboat.

People across the country know how George Floyd died, but there has been less attention on who he was before his death. Two people, Floyd’s housemate and a man who was a stranger to Floyd, joined the program to talk about their time sailing on Bde Maka Ska. Then, we'll learn how a Fortune 500 company and a vocational training center are teaming up to support racial equity in Minnesota.
by Angela Davis, Karen Zamora and Katie Moritz

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Howard University shaped Kamala Harris' path to political heights

Howard University shaped Kamala Harris' path to political heights

Sen. Kamala Harris accepts the Democratic vice presidential nomination on Wednesday. Her education at a historically Black university seen as the center of Black intellectual life helped pave the way.
by Juana Summers

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Citizenship delays could thwart thousands who dream of voting

Citizenship delays could thwart thousands who dream of voting

Many immigrants applied for U.S. citizenship last year, thinking they’d be able to vote in this year’s general election. But the pandemic has pushed processing times way up, and hundreds of thousands are still waiting.
by Megan Burks

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Fired MPD officers called trash tree a ‘prank’

Fired MPD officers called trash tree a ‘prank’

One of the two Minneapolis police officers who lost their jobs after decorating a 4th Precinct Christmas tree with racist items told an independent arbitrator they were playing a joke on a colleague whom they considered a “neat freak.”
by Brandt Williams

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How the pandemic is making the gender pay gap worse

How the pandemic is making the gender pay gap worse

"We project it's going to take more than years for the gender wage gap to close to what it was before the pandemic," economist Jane Olmstead-Rumsey says.
by Greg Rosalsky

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In Grand Forks, giving dignity to a man denied justice

In Grand Forks, giving dignity to a man denied justice

A Black man who was lynched in Grand Forks, N.D., more than a century ago will be memorialized this month, decades after the idea was first raised.
by Dan Gunderson

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CDC study finds Hispanics hit disproportionately hard by workplace outbreaks

CDC study finds Hispanics hit disproportionately hard by workplace outbreaks

A study out Monday found that Hispanic and nonwhite workers made up 73 percent of cases associated with workplace outbreaks in certain industries, despite representing 24 percent of the workforce in those sectors.
by Rachel Treisman

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