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A Racial Border in Minneapolis

Season 1 Episode 1

How can a first-ring suburb reckon with its own racist history?

Since the release of Jim Crow of the North, words are becoming action. A city attorney in Golden Valley discovers her city's role in segregation and cofounds Just Deeds to rewrite racist documents. Oliver Lyle shares his experience of police harassment at the Golden Valley border, and his efforts to rewrite the law of the land. In this age of racial reckoning, Golden Valley works to make amends.

AIR DATE 1/9/23

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How have Minnesotans responded to the rising awareness of racist covenants, red lining, and other forms of damaging segregation? This digital series uncovers this dark history of systemic racism, but also lifts up Black resistance in the past and the present-day changemakers bringing it to light and looking to right historical housing injustices.

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