Race: Conversations around race and racial justice

Here are the latest on the fight against racism, voices calling for racial justice and in-depth stories on communities of color and other racial issues from MPR News.

Voices of Minnesota Calls for change across the state

Protests and pain The killing of George Floyd

Call To Mind Spotlight on black trauma and policing

Amplifying voices Share your experiences and hopes for the future

Indigenous communities see rise in COVID-19 cases
COVID-19 case numbers are falling again across the state, but cases remain extremely high among Native Americans, who over the past month have contracted COVID at two to three times the rate of white Minnesotans.
The end of bias: Is it possible?
Host Angela Davis spoke with Minneapolis author Jessica Nordell about her new book exploring how bias shows up in our schools, workplaces and every part of life. And, if bias is a habit, can we unlearn it?
Candidate Azrin Awal hopes to become first Asian American to win Duluth City Council office
Azrin Awal, 25, serves on the Duluth NAACP Board and has advocated around issues of sexual violence and housing access. While Awal collected the most votes in August’s DFL primary, she says her campaign has run into anti-Islamic bigotry on Facebook.
The heartache and grief of losing your parents' language
MPR Host Angela Davis talks about the trauma and grief of losing an ancestral language and how people are working to preserve and reclaim their heritage language.
Georgia murder trial in killing of Ahmaud Arbery seen as test case for racial justice
Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed as he jogged through a neighborhood near Brunswick, Ga., in 2020. Three white men in pickup trucks pursued him and then confronted him.
Nashville has long been associated with country music. But a museum devoted to African American music, which opened earlier this year, sets the record straight about the city's diversity.
A private college in Minnesota has renamed its arboretum that originally honored an 18th century Swedish botanist who has been lambasted for promoting racist scientific theory, school officials said Tuesday.
'Dear Memory' digs into the shame accompanying immigrant silence
Victoria Chang traces her family history through letter writing in her book, “Dear Memory.” In an NPR interview, she talks facing micro and macro aggressions and staying silent, just like her parents.