Welcome to a new week! Here's your rundown on the latest news in Minnesota. Rain, storms likely across the state. Another day of hot, humid weather, plus showers and storms. Heavy rainfall and thunderstorms are likely across Minnesota besides the northwestern part of the state in the afternoon. Highs will be in the lower 80s to lower 90s. Thousands take part in Black 4th march through downtown Minneapolis “Our grandparents, our ancestors were not independent. Quite the opposite, we were actually in chains, being beaten and oppressed during the time of the Declaration of Independence," Tayo Daniel, who took part in the “Black 4th” march in downtown Minneapolis this weekend. Thousands marched through downtown streets Saturday to speak out against racial injustice and to bring “attention to the hypocrisy of the holiday and how many of us were not independent,” Daniel says. See a gallery of photos from the march and read more here. Frederick Douglass' descendants deliver his 1852 speech: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" More than a century later, his famous speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" still asks all of us to consider America's long history of denying equal rights to Black Americans. Watch this short video of his descendants reciting excerpts or read the full speech text. 50K new COVID-19 cases in U.S.; Florida accounts for a fifth. Nearly 130,000 people in the U.S. have died from the coronavirus and more than 2,800,000 people have been infected as of Sunday. Both Florida and Texas reported their biggest daily rise in new cases, with Florida reporting 11,443 cases on Saturday and 9,999 on Sunday and Texas 8,258 new cases on Saturday and 3,449 on Sunday. Meanwhile in Minnesota, new case counts remain stable. Minnesota health officials reported 519 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, along with five more deaths. Officials didn't release data on the July Fourth holiday but the latest numbers covering both Saturday and Sunday are similar to recent single-day reports.
As state continues to reopen, some office workers fear COVID-19 exposure, retaliation Employment lawyers in Minnesota say they're hearing from workers who say they have been retaliated against for raising safety concerns about workplace conditions — or who have hesitated to speak up because they fear retaliation.
Here are the latest coronavirus statistics in Minnesota: 38,136 cases confirmed (519 new) via 674,015 tests 1,471 deaths (five new) 4,170 cases requiring hospitalization 253 people remain hospitalized; 132 in intensive care 33,408 patients no longer needing isolation — Jiwon Choi, MPR News | @ChoiGEE1 | 