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Dr. Bruce Corrie examines existing Minnesota statutes relative to commonly suggested policies for supporting small and minority businesses. Bruce Corrie is also behind ethnictrends.info. That and his Ethnic Trends blog are great reads on minority affairs in Minnesota. The former is more data driven, the latter is more commentary. Share this Post:
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One Minnesota – residing on the web at OneMN.org – “is a collaborative of the dynamic and creative capital of ALANA communities and friends building One-Minnesota (ALANA- African Latino Asian Native Americans). Rationale ALANA communities will make up a greater share of the future workforce ALANA communities currently make up a critical number of the workforce at...
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I had no idea this even existed. This article originally appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet on December 28, 2009. This style is only one of the many different traditional outfits sold by vendors. (Photo by Diana Vang) By Diana Vang, TC Daily Planet December 28, 2009 Vendors at the Hmongtown Marketplace (217 Como Avenue, St. Paul)...
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BlackAtlas.com American Airlines debuts BlackAtlas.com, a travel networking site focused on the African American travel experience. From the press release: American Airlines announced today it is launching a first-of-its-kind social networking site, BlackAtlas.com(SM), which combines the best features of a travel site with the power of social networking to create a dynamic online community for travelers...
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Meghan Wilker posts her notes from a discussion at the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association’s annual summit that she co-hosted. It was a great session. I would have loved it if the crowd would have been standing room only, but we at least filled all the seats …. And, frankly, I wasn’t entirely surprised — there...
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MnIndy runs a report on how Wells Fargo hates poor, brown, and poor brown people but loves their money. former loan officer for Wells Fargo testified in one affidavit that employees regularly referred to minority borrowers as “mud people” and called subprime mortgages “ghetto loans.” In the latest development, a Superior Court Judge in Los...
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Ben & Jerry’s Shows Gay Marriage Support With “Hubby Hubby” In partnership with Freedom to Marry we are gathered here to celebrate Vermont and all the other great states where loving couples of all kinds are free to marry legally. We have ceremoniously dubbed our iconic flavor, Chubby Hubby to Hubby Hubby in support, and...
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Twin Cities independent technology consultant Adria Richards asks if there’s a need for GLBT technology services, citing her experience providing tech support at the offices of Rainbow Families. My answer: There doesn’t necessarily need to be a “gay IT company” unless your market research supports that. There is most definitely a benefit to marketing yourself...
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Proof that blacks fare worse during recessions The nature of unemployment is that there is a domino affect to local neighborhoods and towns. If I lose my job, I eat out less, I go longer between haircuts and cut back on groceries. Most people spend most of their money locally. Because blacks tend to live...
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This article originally appeared in the Twin Cities Daily Planet on February 13, 2009. By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet February 13, 2009 Lenders discriminate. Housing is segregated. Communities of color are hit harder by the foreclosure crisis than anyone else. That’s the ugly face of racial discrimination in the Twin Cities revealed in a 54-page...
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