Tag: diversity
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Twins announce plans for diversity, Native American Heritage nights
The two nights of celebration are planned for Aug. 15 and 16 as Minnesota takes on the Kansas City Royals in Minneapolis. Read Full Article
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Colusa Sutter Yolo Regional Child Support Agency provides diverse services
The Colusa Sutter Yolo Regional Child Support Agency will be recognizing the diversity of families in recognition of National Child Support Awareness Month this August. Read Full Article
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Southeastern Minnesota courts get ‘corrective action’ on jury diversity
ROCHESTER – After years of work, courts in southeastern Minnesota have been ordered to take a small step toward addressing a lack of diversity in juries. Third Judicial District Chief Judge Joseph … Read Full Article
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Celebrating Minnesota’s diversity with Somali week, Hmong Freedom Festival
Minnesota Is home to the largest Somali population outside of Somalia and the largest Hmong population in the U.S, and Saturday, both cultures celebrated their communities. Read Full Article
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Twin Cities parks work to diversify park programming
The Met Council launched a grant program in 2019 to fund programs that would increase diversity and inclusion at 10 park systems under its umbrella. Read Full Article
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Hapa Project looks past strict categories in the census to reveal Wisconsin’s racial complexity and diversity
And, being lighter skinned, people also assumed I was White.” It was not until she found the Hapa Project while scrolling through MySpace that she had the language to articulate why the question of … Read Full Article
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UC San Francisco Diversity Office Deems Some Asians to be URMs
Recognizing this dynamic, UCSF decided to include Filipinos, Hmong, and Vietnamese as URMs in its “working definition” of that category. But this raises its own questions. Why those three groups … Read Full Article
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Eliminating Marathon County’s Diversity Affairs Commission silences minority populations, former members say
She had served on the commission since 2019. The group included six citizen members and three elected members of the Marathon County Board, including members of the Hmong and Black communities. Read Full Article
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Hmong Night Market showcases Diversity
A night filled with food, displays and demonstrations of cultural rituals and dances. Last Saturday, Hamline’s Hmong Student Association in collaboration with other multicultural organizations on … Read Full Article
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The census pushed people into strict racial categories for 200 years. A new approach reveals Wisconsin’s racial complexity and diversity.
The number of people who identified as multiracial in the U.S. census increased 245% statewide between 2010 and 2020. Read Full Article
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More than $86M in funding awarded to support diversity of small business development in Wisconsin
Governor Tony Evers awarded more than $86 million in grants on March 21 to support small businesses in communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic that have historically had difficulty … Read Full Article
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Northeast Wisconsin’s growing racial, ethnic diversity explored through series ‘Home is Here’
U.S. Census Bureau data offers a starting point to answer that question in northeast Wisconsin, the place we call home. Yet the 2020 census provides only a snapshot; the numbers don’t tell the whole … Read Full Article
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Students find empowerment, comfort in Black History Month exhibit at East High School
It was very important for us to communicate the diversity of art that comes from our Black community,” junior Kadjata Bah said. “Blackness has been portrayed as monolithic … It … Read Full Article
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Northeastern Wisconsin’s surge in diversity forged by opportunity, grit and inclusion
He recalls the vitriolic shouts from white residents telling them to go back to their homeland. There was no homeland to return to for Hmong refugees. Vue’s family fled Laos after his father and uncle … Read Full Article
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‘Home is here’: Northeast Wisconsin’s surge in diversity forged by opportunity, grit and inclusion
Long Vue remembers eggs being splattered over his parents’ car after he and his family arrived in Kaukauna, Wisconsin in 1980. He recalls the vitriolic shouts from white residents telling them to go … Read Full Article