June 17, 2022
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In 1947, the cluster of houses on Ridgewood Lane North and Ridgewood Lane South in Roseville had an identical legal clause inserted into each of the property deeds. “No part of the above described property shall be sold, conveyed, mortgaged, leased or rented to any person of negro [sic], Chinese, Japanese, or Hebrew descent,” the […]
Continue readingNovember 1, 2021
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In the weeks after George Floyd was murdered by now-former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, a reckoning with police violence and systemic racism played out across America, including for American Jews. Twin Cities rabbis and cantors participated in interfaith marches to George Floyd square. The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the national umbrella organization for […]
Continue readingFebruary 2, 2021
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For an hour on Jan. 28, Minneapolis’ old Northside came back to life on a Zoom call. Theartrice “T” Williams, a longtime civil rights activist and community leader, recalled how few Black people lived in Minneapolis when he moved here from Chicago in 1965 to work at a local settlement house. As a result, “my […]
Continue readingOctober 14, 2020
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It is a fairly common experience for one to have their entire image of an individual upended after discovering some previously unknown fact, and this is no less true for historians. Perhaps the biggest shock I encountered during my research on the history of Jews and post-war housing segregation in North Minneapolis was the discovery […]
Continue readingOctober 2, 2020
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Part 4: Navigating the reconciliation process will mean going beyond the typical collaboration of Black and Jewish organizations.
Continue readingOctober 1, 2020
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This is part of Exodus and Equity: Reconciling the History of Minneapolis’ Jewish North Side, a series exploring how Twin Cities Jews were unwitting participants in racist real estate policies that shape today’s inequality in Minneapolis and other Midwestern American cities. In Minneapolis, that history is predominantly tied to two regions — Near North Minneapolis […]
Continue readingSeptember 30, 2020
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Being at the nexus of issues like the ones the community face is part of why the organization was started.
Continue readingSeptember 29, 2020
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Part 3: As more Black people moved into Near North, it was also assumed that property values for Jewish and white residents would drop and wipe out housing wealth — a self-fulfilling prophecy thanks to redlining policies.
Continue readingSeptember 25, 2020
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Events from a Jewish lawyers’ group is offering greater understanding of how disparity really is coming from the way that communities are divided.
Continue readingSeptember 24, 2020
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Part 2: The shared experience of inequality between Jews and Blacks in North Minneapolis didn’t last.
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