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Social Issues

Kerri Miller in conversation with Juan Williams

Kerri Miller in conversation with Juan Williams

A broadcast of Kerri Miller's conversation with Juan Williams, recorded in the UBS Forum at Minnesota Public Radio on Friday, July 29. They discuss Williams' firing from National Public Radio, his views on the media and his new book, "Muzzled."

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National gay-rights group forms Minnesota PAC

The Human Rights Campaign has a formed a political action committee in Minnesota in preparation for next year's statewide vote on whether the state Constitution should prohibit gay marriage.

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Block parties planned for National Night Out

Block parties and cookouts are being held in neighborhoods throughout Minnesota as part of National Night Out.

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Annual event brings services for veterans in need

The Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans hosts its annual metro StandDown event this week.
by Rupa Shenoy

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MN resettlement worker headed for first-ever Refugee Congress

A Columbia Heights woman will tell the United Nations' refugee agency in Washington this week that the economy is complicating the job hunt for many new arrivals in the United States.
by Laura Yuen

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Interracial marriage still new in Somali community

When Idil Mohamed walks down the street with her husband, they often attract stares, and sometimes rude comments, because she is Somali and he is white. Somalis who marry non-Somalis are breaking the social norms of marriage and cultural traditions in their community.
by Mukhtar M. Ibrahim

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