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Abraham Lincoln and slavery

Abraham Lincoln and slavery

Historian Eric Foner examines Abraham Lincoln's complex ideas about slavery and African Americans, casting fresh light on an American icon.

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Twin Cities unemployment divide for black, white people is nation's widest

The unemployment disparity rate between black and white people in the Twin Cities is the nation's largest, with some of the most lopsided racial unemployment rates overall.
by Laura Yuen

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Bilingual voting ballots ordered in 25 states

The federal government is ordering that 248 counties and other political jurisdictions provide bilingual ballots to Hispanics and other minorities who speak little or no English.

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Mpls. event highlights growing efforts by teens to stop bullying

Mpls. event highlights growing efforts by teens to stop bullying

Students have organized a bullying awareness event at the Blake School today. Efforts led by students to change the culture within their own school have become more common in recent years.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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OccupyMN protesters planning for coming work week

OccupyMN protesters planning for coming work week

Many members of the OccupyMN movement are preparing to blend their life of activism with the normal work week as they return to their jobs Monday.
by Rupa Shenoy

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Feds vow crackdown on Calif. pot operations

Feds vow crackdown on Calif. pot operations

Federal authorities in California vowed to shut down dozens of pot growing and sales operations in a major crackdown.

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Remembering civil rights hero Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

A giant in the civil rights movement that many people did not know, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth died Wednesday in Birmingham at the age of 89. He was beaten, bombed and jailed dozens of times during an adult lifetime fighting for, and preaching for, civil rights for black Americans. Listen to a 1998 conversation with Gary Eichten in the MPR studios.

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