by Natalie Copeland | Feb 29, 2016 | Black, Central MN Stories, Community, Race
Is it just me, or does anyone else ever just stop and think about the fact that signs like this were the norm until 1964? Really, that wasn’t too terribly long ago. Think of how many people that are alive today lived during a time when segregation was the way of...
by Justin Michael | Feb 18, 2016 | Action Steps, Community
This week, a billboard was up in this area for a couple days that read: “Catholic Charities Resettles Islamists: Evil or Insanity”. It was taken down because the St. Cloud area Catholic Charities organization does not help with resettlement of refugees....
by Catherine Verrilli | Feb 5, 2016 | Action Steps, Community
I recently attended the Martin Luther King breakfast at SCSU with about 500 of my closest friends. The keynote speaker—streamed live from Minneapolis– was Deval Patrick, former governor of Massachusetts. His address moved and inspired me, but, more importantly,...
by Natalie Copeland | Jan 25, 2016 | Action Steps, Central MN Stories, Community, Muslim, Somali
It’s been a big week for St. Cloud – and not really in a good way. After reading the City Pages article that labeled this area the “worst place in MN to be a Somali”, many St. Cloud area dwellers have received Facebook messages and e-mails...
by Ahmed Ali Said | Jan 19, 2016 | Community, Race, Somali
What do you know about your immigrant and refugee neighbors? Do you judge them by what you hear others say? Do you choose to believe whatever the media throws at you, no matter the accuracy or inaccuracy of the contents? Do you find yourself overgeneralizing the whole...
