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And, a four-year research project by Minnesota State University, Mankato found evidence of segregation in the city — even after death. Now, the city council has formally condemned racial covenants from the past and is helping property owners remove them from their deeds

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Inequality even in death: Mankato project finds racial covenants in a cemetery and beyond

A Mankato project found racial covenants in seven neighborhoods and a cemetery. The City Council recently voted to condemn racial covenants, and now is pursuing the discharge of discriminatory language from property deeds.

“It was a way to shut down color in the community,” Brinley Ketter said. “A way of putting white power into the collective of the community, as a way of building their power instead of ours. And, that really just wasn’t right to me.”
 
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More LGBTQ+ people can now give blood, but Minnesota donation centers say the change could take months. While the FDA’s new guidance means that more people could give blood, it hasn't yet been implemented at donation centers in Minnesota, and across the country. Experts say that it could take months to implement the new guidance.  

DNR to rewrite mining rules to prevent noise and light pollution in Boundary Waters. The agency recommended that the state legislature consider whether mining activities such as the above ground storage of mine waste and reactive waste rock is compatible with the protection of the Boundary Waters.

Folk and blues legend Lead Belly’s Minneapolis private party. Folk and blues singer Huddie Ledbetter performed a short concert at a friend’s Minneapolis home in 1948. Instead of being lost in music history, someone decided to record it.

House approves the Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling bill as default deadline looms. House lawmakers have passed a piece of compromise legislation brokered between President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to avoid an unprecedented debt default with just days to spare.

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