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Social Issues

It's no time to be complacent about racial progress

It's no time to be complacent about racial progress

A playwright with a similar experience sees hard lessons in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr.
by Kim Hines

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A young doctor serves in Africa

A young doctor serves in Africa

One ER physician's desire to heal led him to a contested border town in Sudan, Africa. James Maskalyk treated people for starvation and fought a measles epidemic amid war.

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Wal-Mart rehires Muslim worker fired for praying

Wal-Mart has rehired a Muslim employee from the Twin Cities who had been fired for praying in the workplace.

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Somali activists say missing men went voluntarily

A handful of young Somali-American activists say they're convinced that the roughly 20 Minnesota men who left to fight in their homeland went voluntarily, raised their own money and recruited one another.
by Laura Yuen

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Somali groups speak out about indictments

A coalition of Somali groups is holding a news conference Tuesday to respond to an ongoing terror investigation and the recent indictments of two men on terrorism-related charges.

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A story of hope amid despair

A story of hope amid despair

A new novel by Mayo Clinic doctor and obesity researcher James Levine tells the story of a young Indian girl forced into a life of prostitution. Dr. Levine says the novel sprang from a visit to the slums of Mumbai and encounter there that haunts him to this day.

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Minneapolis struggles with rise of Somali gangs

Ahmednur Ali's family fled the chaos and violence of their East African homeland Somalia in the 1990s, eventually making their way to Minnesota like thousands of their compatriots.
by Patrick Condon, Associated Press

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Rep. Ellison says U.S. trying to ensure safe return of missing Somalis

Rep. Ellison says U.S. trying to ensure safe return of missing Somalis

Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison said the U.S. government is trying to ensure the safe return of some of the young Somali-American men believed to be fighting with a terrorist group in their homeland.
by Laura Yuen

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