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ND higher ed board to sue to drop Fighting Sioux

ND higher ed board to sue to drop Fighting Sioux

North Dakota's Board of Higher Education voted Monday to sue to attempt to block a public vote on a state law that requires the University of North Dakota's athletics teams to be called the Fighting Sioux.

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Minnesota's black middle class is shrinking

Minnesota's black middle class is shrinking

For African Americans who fell out of the middle class during the recession, the recovery will be tough. The unemployment rate for African Americans in the Twin Cities metro area is more than three times that of whites. That's one of the largest unemployment disparities in the country.
by Brandt Williams

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Black frats and sororities rally against wage, education gap

Members of several black fraternities and sororities are at the Capitol Monday to draw attention to economic and educational disparities in the state.
by Brandt Williams

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Documentary shows how slavery continued after the Civil War

Documentary shows how slavery continued after the Civil War

On PBS stations around the country viewers are getting a sobering history lesson. It's history you didn't learn in school. We were taught that the enslavement of African-Americans ended with the Civil War. In reality, a new documentary, produced in part here in Minnesota, reveals that a new type of slavery began in the Deep South after the Civil War and persisted all the way through World War Two. "Slavery by Another Name" shows how tens of thousands of African-Americans were imprisoned on trumped-up charges and leased to the owners of factories, farms and mines as slave-laborers. The documentary is based on a Pulitizer Prize winning book written by Douglas Blackmon. Minnesota Public Radio's Cathy Wurzer discussed the documentary with Blackmon and his co-executive producer Catherine Allan of Twin Cities Public Television.
by Cathy Wurzer

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'Slavery By Another Name' documentary has Minn. connection

'Slavery By Another Name' documentary has Minn. connection

A new documentary to be broadcast tonight, produced partly in Minnesota, shows how thousands of African Americans were imprisoned on trumped-up charges after the Civil War and leased to the owners of factories, farms and mines as slave laborers.
by Cathy Wurzer

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Same-sex Fargo couple refused marriage license

Inspired by a federal appeals court ruling this week, a gay Fargo couple went to the Cass County Courthouse to apply for a marriage license.

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Foreclosure settlement could help 17K Minn. homeowners

Foreclosure settlement could help 17K Minn. homeowners

An estimated 17,000 Minnesota homeowners who went through foreclosure between 2008 and the end of last year could be eligible for some financial relief under the terms of a long-awaited deal announced Thursday.
by Jessica Mador

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Study: One-third of adolescent girls victimized by dating partner

Study: One-third of adolescent girls victimized by dating partner

Federal statistics report that one in every three adolescent girls in the United States is a victim of physical, emotional or verbal abuse from a dating partner.
by Sasha Aslanian

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Dayton: Minn. voters will reject marriage amendment

DFL Gov. Mark Dayton is predicting that Minnesota voters will defeat a proposed same-sex marriage ban that will appear on the statewide ballot in November.
by Tim Pugmire

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