Louis Porter II and Dane Smith from Growth and Justice joined Brett Buckner of ONEmn.org to discuss the culmination of a yearlong grassroots effort by the two organizations to develop policy initiatives to deliver to Gov. Walz and other elected officials.
The Twin Cities has a split personality. On one hand it regularly tops the charts as the best place to live, the healthiest place in America and so on. But we are also number one in the nation when it comes to the academic achievement gap, the income gap, the employment gap, the health gap and other big gaps between white people and people of color. How can this be?
The Synapse Jazz Think Tanks are four-person discussion groups designed to promote understanding of the perspectives of diverse people. The empowering structure of this format enables a problem-solving strategy where all perspectives are taken into account.
By Naomi Ono LeBeau The entire class of 2018 at El Colegio High School in Minneapolis is graduating this year. Not only that, all 24 students are planning to go to college. At the annual El Colegio fundraising breakfast on June 1, Dr. Bianet Castellanos of the University of Minnesota said Minnesota is the worst place
The Synapse Vision: People are separated into various silos according to geography, education, race, socio-economic levels, and even by career specialization. I once witnessed two physicists meeting for the first time. After mentioning the names of their universities, they asked each other about their areas of research. Once said, “Cold temperature.” The other said, “Sub-atomic.”