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Anna Arnold Hedgeman: Fierce Trailblazer. Bold Freedom Fighter.

Title: Anna Arnold Hedgeman: Fierce Trailblazer. Bold Freedom Fighter.
Runtime: 2:27
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The first Black woman to graduate from Hamline University, Anna Arnold Hedgeman was a trailblazer. She was the first African-American woman to serve on a New York City mayoral cabinet and helped organize the 1964 March on Washington.

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What Life Is Like As A Black Minnesotan | Full Episode

Title: What Life Is Like As A Black Minnesotan | Full Episode
Runtime: 57:30
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In 1991, Robert Byrd created a landmark documentary called Diary: Black Minnesotans. In this one hour film, Robert Byrd chronicles the lives of Black Minnesotans, from a sheriff in rural Minnesota to business men looking to create education and opportunities for gang members.

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Appetite for Change Is Making Big Changes To The Food Landscape of North Minneapolis

Title: Appetite for Change Is Making Big Changes To The Food Landscape of North Minneapolis
Runtime: 6:05
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In recent years, North Minneapolis has been known as a “food desert,” which the Center for Disease Control describes as an area lacking in access to fresh, healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Even more recently, North Minneapolis has been referred to as a “food swamp,” a less formal term that accounts for the wealth of unhealthy food options – such as fast and fried foods – that are widely available on Broadway Avenue, which is also home to Appetite for Change.

A social enterprise with a mission to build “wealth, health and social change” in North Minneapolis, Appetite for Change operates a Breaking Bread Café and several community gardens, provides cooking classes for community members, and trains and employs more than 180 staff – including youth. Breaking Bread Café is a stanchion on Broadway, and it teems with energy, ideas and – of course – delicious, fresh, healthy foods.

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Learning About the African Diaspora Helps Kids Grow Into Leaders

Title: Learning About the African Diaspora Helps Kids Grow Into Leaders
Runtime: 5:52
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Anthony Galloway knows ARTS-Us, both personally and professionally.

He grew up in the Saint Paul program, immersed in learning about the cultural heritage of the African Diaspora. He graduated from high school, got a degree in ethnic studies, founded Umoja Equity – a diversity and equity building consulting group – studied some more and eventually came back to ARTS-Us as Executive Director.

This story was created in collaboration with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Center for Prevention as part of Building Health Equity: Health Happens in Community.

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Title: Welcome to Minnesota's Downton Abbey
Runtime: 1:30
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: James J. Hill has loomed large on the eastern end of Summit Avenue since 1891. Easily the largest private home in Saint Paul, the imposing structure boasts 36,500 square feet and has drawn more than a few comparisons to a rather famous building.

To learn more about the James J. Hill House, visit: https://on.tpt.org/34VXu4w
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Peter Morales' Inspiration Comes From the Mayans

Title: Peter Morales' Inspiration Comes From the Mayans
Runtime: 5:30
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Peter Morales love of stone sculpture formed early in his life, influenced by the Mayan ruins that surrounded his childhood home of Tikal, Guatemala.

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Korean Adoptees Find Connection and Identity in Northern Minnesota

Title: Korean Adoptees Find Connection and Identity in Northern Minnesota
Runtime: 7:24
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Laura Johnson had always envisioned raising her own family in her hometown of Duluth, Minn. After all, the northern city on the shores of Lake Superior provided a backdrop for many warm and nurturing years growing up. The youngest of three children, she was only occasionally reminded that she had been adopted as an infant from a world away, in Korea.

The uncomfortable moments happened when her parents and two older brothers, all of whom are white, were absent. She soon realized those experiences would not be shared.

Our One Greater Minnesota reporter, Kaomi Lee met with Korean adoptees in northern Minnesota.

Find out more about the Minnesota Arrowhead Region Korean Adoptees: https://on.tpt.org/34NNeLC

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Tour Prince's Original Stomping Ground with Photographer Dan Corrigan

Title: Tour Prince's Original Stomping Ground with Photographer Dan Corrigan
Runtime: 9:14
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Photographer and First Avenue staffer Dan Corrigan takes us on a tour of the legendary nightclub, discussing his origins as a newspaper assignment photographer through 30+ years of shooting every major musical act to hail from Minnesota. Corrigan shows us his favorite spots to shoot from in the music venue and talks about the changing tides in music and photography throughout the years.

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We're Muslim, Don't Panic: Islam and Hip-Hop

Title: We're Muslim, Don't Panic: Islam and Hip-Hop
Runtime: 6:06
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Amy Sackett found a way to explore Islam through hip-hop in her show, "We're Muslim, Don't Panic."
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St. Paul Was a Home For the Mafia and Mobsters

Title: St. Paul Was a Home For the Mafia and Mobsters
Runtime: 2:07
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: What does St. Paul have in common with Hot Springs, Arkansas and Cicero, Illinois? They were all safe havens for the mafia and mobsters.

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Andrea Jenkins Is A Poet. Artist. Oral Historian. Politician. Community Icon.

Title: Andrea Jenkins Is A Poet. Artist. Oral Historian. Politician. Community Icon.
Runtime: 7:54
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Andrea Jenkins is everywhere, constantly on the move, forever on a quest to experiment and push boundaries. In November 2017, her election to the Minneapolis City Council made her the first openly transgender black woman elected to public office in the entire nation.

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Velahsa Is The Most Successful Band You've Never Heard Of

Title: Velahsa Is The Most Successful Band You've Never Heard Of
Runtime: 2:45
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Velahsa isn't in it for the money - they're in it for the music.

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Music Man Joe, One of the Longest Running Twin Cities Buskers

Title: Music Man Joe, One of the Longest Running Twin Cities Buskers
Runtime: 3:17
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Retired mason worker Jocephus Lomax, a.k.a. “Music Man Joe,” traded his native Mississippi for Minnesota in 1978, a move that introduced him to the time-honored tradition of street busking. Gleaming trumpet in hand, case open to any passersby, he now spends much of his leisure time performing at farmers markets and sporting events, his music weaving into the soundtrack of the Twin Cities.

To find the areas where Music Man Joe plays in the Twin Cities, visit: https://on.tpt.org/2A26V4b

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Oshkii Giizhik Singers Are Reviving Native American Songs

Title: Oshkii Giizhik Singers Are Reviving Native American Songs
Runtime: 4:10
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In the Fond du Lac / Duluth area, a group of Native American women singers have been quietly reviving an old tradition of creating music through song and drum beats.

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Discover How One Family Coped With Mental Illness

Title: Discover How One Family Coped With Mental Illness
Runtime: 10:56
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: A family struggles through mental illness over decades of life.

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Meet The First African-American Female to Coach and Win in a MN State Tournament

Title: Meet The First African-American Female to Coach and Win in a MN State Tournament
Runtime: 3:47
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Minnesota Hall of Fame Basketball Coach Faith Johnson Patterson is the first African-American woman to coach in a state tournament and the only one to win one, she’s coached 24 athletes to Division 1 scholarships. But she says that sports help foster young women’s confidence, their toughness and their belief that they can do anything.

Meet 7 other women coaches who will fire you up: https://on.tpt.org/34gqZh4

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First A Slave, Then A Soldier: Henry Mack

Title: First A Slave, Then A Soldier: Henry Mack
Runtime: 1:25
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Born into slavery in Alabama on July 4, 1838, Henry Mack escaped his master and later served as a soldier with the 57th U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War. After the war, Mack moved to Minneapolis – and while he was held up as a living symbol of patriotism during World War II, at least one story suggests that the centenarian was prepared to join the fight when he found out that the Allies had landed on the Normandy Beach in 1944.

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Eva Gay, Minnesota's Stunt Girl Reporter

Title: Eva Gay, Minnesota's Stunt Girl Reporter
Runtime: 1:53
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Eva Gay, working for the St. Paul Globe, brought investigative journalism to Minnesota, going undercover to expose poor working conditions and systemic injustice.

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Writer Saymoukda Vongsay is a Refugenius

Title: Writer Saymoukda Vongsay is a Refugenius
Runtime: 6:27
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Poet, writer, playwright, and performer, Saymoukda Vongsay wants to bring Lao and Hmong communities together and create spaces for refugees and immigrants in the Twin Cities.

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Remembering St. Paul's African-American Neighborhood

Title: Remembering St. Paul's African-American Neighborhood
Runtime: 3:55
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The Rondo neighborhood, a thriving black community in St. Paul, was bulldozed to create a freeway, displacing over 500 families.
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Title: Secret Stash Records
Runtime: 8:43
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Secret Stash Records maintains its groove-based sound, whether its with a vinyl re-release, or new music like Sonny Knight and the Lakers.

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How A Traditional Hmong Game Made Its Way To Minnesota

Title: How A Traditional Hmong Game Made Its Way To Minnesota
Runtime: 3:15
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Pronounced “too-loo,” tuj lub has 5,000-year old roots in Laos, and many Hmong Minnesotans also played it as a respite in Thai refugee camps before they finally made their way to the U.S. The game is an important cornerstone of the Hmong community’s identity and brings together many generations of players. Senator Foung Hawj accompanied Gillette as he learned the rules of the game and proclaimed, “Tuj lub is now in Lake Wobegon.”
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Title: On The Side of Freedom
Runtime: 11:03
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Emily Grey was a bold woman, who was passionate about freedom and proud of her African American heritage. She became part of the abolitionist movement and her diaries are an important part of Black Minnesotan history.

You can read more about Emily's life and times, as well as Minnesota's refusal to return a Confederate flag: https://on.tpt.org/2Hkh6W0

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The Black Vote In Minnesota Was Won In 1868

Title: The Black Vote In Minnesota Was Won In 1868
Runtime: 3:11
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In 1868, Minnesota’s Republican party focused its political strategy on access to the polls. But in this case, the party of Lincoln was pushing to enfranchise African-American males. Reflecting on the state’s political profile and legacy might offers up curious context for Minnesotans of all political persuasions.

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Title: Where Can I Get Pierogi?
Runtime: 2:29
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: On Fridays when the weather is cool, they can be found at Saint Constantine Ukrainian Catholic Church. Volunteers have been making pyrohy (the Ukrainian word for pierogi) by hand here since the early 1960s as a fundraiser for the church.

Read more about the history of the vareniki, pyrohy, or pierogi: https://on.tpt.org/2Hj6ypN

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Title: Then & Now: Race In Ads
Runtime: 2:46
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Take a look at the way race has played a part in advertising from the inception of advertising to today.

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Being Black and Betty Crocker: Making Black History at General Mills

Title: Being Black and Betty Crocker: Making Black History at General Mills
Runtime: 6:00
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Barbara Jo Davis made Black history when she was hired by General Mills in 1968 to work as Betty Crocker. Davis had a hand in developing Hamburger Helper, welcomed tours to the test kitchens, and worked in publishing. She even traveled the nation to work with homemakers in their kitchens to refine recipes and products.

00:00 Hello, I'm Betty Crocker!
00:13 Meet Barbara Jo Davis, a trailblazer at General Mills
00:46 Dreaming of being the Black Betty Crocker
01:41 Working in the General Test Kitchens
02:49 Creating the package directions for Betty Crocker's products
03:54 Meeting Ken Davis and making his BBQ sauce recipe
05:35 Who do you think Betty Crocker is?
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U.S. Men's Curling Looks Back After Historic Win

Title: U.S. Men's Curling Looks Back After Historic Win
Runtime: 4:21
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: When the U.S. men’s curling team beat Sweden and won Olympic gold in Pyeongchang, Korea, just about everyone in Duluth, Minn. – halfway around the world – was watching.

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Why Was Laos Involved in the Vietnam War?

Title: Why Was Laos Involved in the Vietnam War?
Runtime: 6:32
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Fearing the spread of communism deeper into Southeast Asia, the US Government held fast to the belief that, if Laos fell into the hands of the National Liberation Front (also known as the Viet Cong), then other nearby nations would also tumble like dominoes. So the CIA established a secret operation in the country, recruiting, training and supporting Hmong people to act as “surrogate soldiers of the American armed forces.” And that operation – known as a “secret” or “quiet” war – unfolded in the shadows of the Vietnam War, remaining classified until the 1990s.
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Yevrah Won't Be Silenced. Instead He'll Shine.

Title: Yevrah Won't Be Silenced. Instead He'll Shine.
Runtime: 4:11
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Yevrah, a Hip-Hop/Neo-nusoul Emcee out of Saint Paul. Born in East St. Louis, IL, his politically charged music speaks on injustice and traumatic tragedy that black communities face without aid. Through his art and his mantra, “The vulnerable youth became everything,” he tackles concepts that get people feeling and shines a light on the many different ways to deal with past traumas with a “vulnerable youth become everything” perspective.

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Native American Resilience Through The Written Word

Title: Native American Resilience Through The Written Word
Runtime: 4:03
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Marcie Rendon is a citizen of the White Earth Nation. She is an award-winning crime novelist, an award-winning spoken word artist, a writer of children’s non-fiction books, and a published and produced playwright. She’s also the creative mind and energy behind Raving Native Productions, an organization that aims to create, curate and produce work by other Native artists wanting to get on stage. 

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Hmong Artist Kevin Yang Is Not In Between

Title: Hmong Artist Kevin Yang Is Not In Between
Runtime: 5:34
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Kevin Yang is a Hmong-American multidisciplinary artist from the Twin Cities. Kevin creates primarily in the mediums of spoken word, filmmaking and theater. He finds most of his inspiration in unraveling his experience as a Hmong soul born in the United States. Kevin also has a great fondness for almond milk and banana nut granola.

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Mapping Racial Covenants: Jim Crow of the North

Title: Mapping Racial Covenants: Jim Crow of the North
Runtime: 3:49
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Mapping Prejudice invites the community to help map racial covenants in Minneapolis.

Watch: https://youtu.be/XWQfDbbQv9E?si=fFEnoVbyPIU-zV1m

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Mental Health Concerns Are On The Rise in Farm Country

Title: Mental Health Concerns Are On The Rise in Farm Country
Runtime: 5:31
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: According to providers who are on the front lines of administering mental health care, farmers are among the highest number of suicides nationally. But they’re also among the last to seek help, say community health professionals. State lawmakers have been working to make more resources available, but have not yet been able to pass a bill to address these concerns. The issue of mental health in farming communities has also gotten the attention of Gov. Tim Walz, who recently held a roundtable to discuss the crisis.

Meanwhile, an increasing number of farmers are getting out of the dairy business – a particularly hard-hit industry right now – or leaving farming altogether. But hatching a plan for life after farming also contributes to the stress that those who work in the industry already feel.

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The Arthur Lee House: Jim Crow of the North

Title: The Arthur Lee House: Jim Crow of the North
Runtime: 4:55
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Even homes that were near racial covenants without being covenanted themselves still kept neighborhood white. Arthur Lee, a WWI vet, and his family moved into a non-covenanted home on 46th and Columbus. Vandalism, intimidation, and fear followed.

0:00 Racial covenants hardened racial boundaries
0:26 Arthur Lee and a non-covenanted home
1:38 Vandalism, intimidation, and fear
2:49 The Lee family defended by Minnesota's first African-American female lawyer
3:48 Leaving home

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Indigenous Theatre Programs Help Native Youth Thrive

Title: Indigenous Theatre Programs Help Native Youth Thrive
Runtime: 5:00
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Sir Curtis Kirby III is an Ojibwe/African-American artist who lives in Saint Paul. Kirby is the Director of the Ikidowin Youth Theater Ensemble and has directed We will do it for the Water, Everything is a Circle and Beishigo Asemaa.  Kirby was the Assistant Director for Pangea World Theater’s Five Weeks and Sabra Falling.  This year, he has been awarded a fellowship in directing with Pangea World Theater. 

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Title: Minnesota Firsts: K-Rations
Runtime: 1:23
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In 1941, during World War II, the Allied Forces often found their troops without reliable food sources. The C-Ration was over 5 pounds, making it impractical. Professors at the University of Minnesota came up with the K-Ration, three non-perishable, nutrient-rich meals that would fit in soldier's pockets.

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Hmong Illustrator Xee Reiter Sketches Her Roots

Title: Hmong Illustrator Xee Reiter Sketches Her Roots
Runtime: 5:51
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Xee Reiter began her infatuation with art in grade school, and it has since remained an intrinsic part of her creative life. Her eclectic style ranges from lettering and calligraphy to line illustrations and painting, using various mediums. As a first-generation Hmong American, her cultural roots can be found in some of her work. During the warm season, for example, she enjoys sketching her family’s local explorations. Xee lives in Saint Paul with her husband and their three kids.

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Redlining and Racial Covenants: Jim Crow of the North

Title: Redlining and Racial Covenants: Jim Crow of the North
Runtime: 8:00
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Redlining and racial covenants were government approved racism. "Racial covenants aren't just about discriminating against people of color. It's about enriching white people."

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Breweries Bring New Life to Greater Minnesota

Title: Breweries Bring New Life to Greater Minnesota
Runtime: 5:31
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Minnesota ranks thirteenth in the nation in craft breweries per capita. Its breweries bring in more than $2 billion dollars in economic impact each year. All of that is perhaps more incredible, given that the number of breweries has more than tripled since 2011. That’s when state lawmakers signed legislation, dubbed the “Surly” bill, to allow breweries to open taprooms, where they could sell pints of the beer they make onsite.

Today, craft brewers say there are about 170 breweries across the state. Lauren Bennett McGinty, executive director of the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild, said that the greatest opportunities for opening a new brewery exist outside the metro.

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Performer and Educator Tish Jones Takes You All The Way Home

Title: Performer and Educator Tish Jones Takes You All The Way Home
Runtime: 6:45
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Founder and Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks, Tish Jones is a poet, performer, educator and organizer from Saint Paul. She has performed at CBGB, Kaplan Theater, The Walker Art Center, Intermedia Arts, The Cedar Cultural Center and more. Her work can be found in the Minnesota Humanities Center’s anthology entitled, Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2015), the 2011 and 2013 Saint Paul Almanac, and the Loft Literary Center’s Nation of Immigrants audio CD.

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Title: War Rations Recipe: Emergency Steak
Runtime: 1:47
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: No steak? No problem! Betty Crocker gives you a recipe for Emergency Steak when the grocer doesn't have any beef.

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Black, Queer American Poet Donte Collins

Title: Black, Queer American Poet Donte Collins
Runtime: 3:43
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Donte Collins is a Black, queer American poet. Named the inaugural Youth Poet Laureate of Saint Paul, they are the recipient of the 2018 McKnight Artist Fellowship for Spoken Word and winner of the 2016 Most Promising Young Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets. They are the author of the poetry collection Autopsy (Button Poetry, 2017) a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award.

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Kao Kalia Yang Brings Hmong Storytelling to the American Canon

Title: Kao Kalia Yang Brings Hmong Storytelling to the American Canon
Runtime: 6:38
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She is the author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet. In the fall of 2019, Yang will debut her children’s book,  A Map Into the World, a collection titled  What God is Honored Here? : Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Indigenous Women and Women of Color, and a work about refugee lives in America called  Somewhere in the Unknown World.
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Ojibwe Culture Takes Center Stage in Andrea Fairbanks’ Work

Title: Ojibwe Culture Takes Center Stage in Andrea Fairbanks’ Work
Runtime: 5:32
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Andrea Fairbanks, Bagwajikwe, is Leech Lake Anishinaabe. She is a mother, above all else. She is also a multifaceted artist, Ojibwe language revitalizationalist  and teacher. She began acting when Rhiana Yazzie found her in a coffee shop singing karaoke in 2006. The first play Andrea has ever written, titled My Only Sunshine, was about the birth of her beautiful daughter Mizhakwad. 

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Muslim Sisters Iman and Khadijah Are Dance Group Al Ta'wam

Title: Muslim Sisters Iman and Khadijah Are Dance Group Al Ta'wam
Runtime: 7:26
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: National YoungArts Award recipient and the youngest two-time Minnesota Sage Cowles Award for dance recipient, Al Taw’am (Arabic for “The Twins”) is fueled by Muslim identical twin sisters, Iman and Khadijah Siferllah-Griffin, who hail from Minneapolis. As dancers and choreographers for Brother Ali’s video Never Learn and Mona Haydar’s Hijabi, Iman and Khadijah have performed with world-renowned artist Black Violin, and in such events as The Nobel Peace Prize Forum, Facing Race, WE Day Minnesota and The Minnesota Secretary of State’s 50th Voters’ Rights Act Anniversary Celebration. In 2016, the pair performed and provided a talk-back at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and in 2017, the pair were contestants on season one of World of Dance on NBC.

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Title: Minnesota Inventions: The Shopping Bag
Runtime: 1:12
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Good, old-fashioned Minnesota innovation created the first shopping bag in St. Paul in 1919.

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Bde Maka Ska or Lake Calhoun? The Lake With Two Names

Title: Bde Maka Ska or Lake Calhoun? The Lake With Two Names
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: If you live in Minnesota, you’ve already heard about the Lake Calhoun-Bde Maka Ska naming debate. If you don’t live in Minnesota, you SHOULD know about this debate, because, as David Gillette points out, it’s connected to almost everything we’re arguing about as a country. Take a look and make up your own mind!
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National Geographic Photographer Shares His Photography Adventures

Title: National Geographic Photographer Shares His Photography Adventures
Runtime: 10:17
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Layne Kennedy captures his weird-and-wonderful neighbors in their natural element and swaps one-liners with them during poker games. And then there are the dogsledding workshops in northern Minnesota, where he coaches budding photographers to hone their style and skill.

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Title: A History Lesson In Minnesota Mean
Runtime: 1:51
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In a land of "Minnesota nice," we've also unleashed our fair share of "Minnesota mean." At the Hennepin History Museum, staff and an army of volunteers have undertaken the task of creating a detailed inventory of every single object in its collection. As they open old boxes, they’re finding more than old pay stubs and tax returns, such as this child’s doll dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe.
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