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Tag: Race

Politics

What’s changed in quest for newsroom diversity? Not much, report says

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 23, 2018, 1:36 PM May 23, 2018
9 Comments

Mainstream news media outlets aren’t very good at covering communities of color and issues of race and class and there’s a pretty obvious reason why not: they’re mostly white. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Health

Op-ed: When addiction has a white face

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 9, 2016, 6:31 AM Feb 9, 2016
9 Comments

The rush to stem the heroin problem as a health problem reflects the new whiteness of the crisis. Read more →

Politics

Whiteness of state workforce targeted

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 2, 2015, 9:55 AM Nov 2, 2015
19 Comments

Gov. Mark Dayton is promising to remake the face of Minnesota state government, saying it’s too white. Read more →

Education

Why calling slaves ‘workers’ matters

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 23, 2015, 6:38 AM Oct 23, 2015
9 Comments

In Houston, student Coby Burren was taken aback by a caption in a chapter on immigration in his geography textbook recently. In a map of the United States it said the Atlantic slave trade brought “millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.” Read more →

Arts & Culture

The cure for all-male, all-white panels

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 13, 2015, 3:57 PM Oct 13, 2015
51 Comments

If white men are really interested in supporting diversity in the public space, the very best thing they can do to achieve it, is sit down and be quiet. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Politics

Is hurting a cop a ‘hate crime’?

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 6, 2015, 6:51 PM Oct 6, 2015
6 Comments

The City Council in Red Wing has passed a resolution calling for a change in federal law that would include hurting a police officer as a hate crime, WCCO reports.
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Arts & Culture

A question of ‘blackness’ surrounds NAACP official

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 12, 2015, 1:59 PM Jun 12, 2015
2 Comments

For most people, Rachel Dolezal’s race doesn’t matter. But she heads Spokane’s NAACP. She’s also a part-time professor in Eastern Washington University’s Africana Studies Program. Read more →

The language of civil unrest

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 28, 2015, 12:10 PM Apr 28, 2015
12 Comments

After civil unrest in recent years, the spotlight has shown on the words that news reporters use to describe what’s happening.
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Crime and Justice · Education

U of M to limit race, ethnicity in crime descriptions

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 25, 2015, 9:48 AM Feb 25, 2015
13 Comments

The University of Minnesota said Wednesday it will no longer provide general descriptions of those responsible for crime on campus.

In so doing, the U of M adopts a standard used by many news organizations which, at least by policy, don’t provide the race of suspects unless it actually provides some distinctive information. Read more →

Politics

There’s more to Minneapolis than its whiteness

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 18, 2015, 8:06 AM Feb 18, 2015
25 Comments

Even the mayor of Minneapolis acknowledged on Tom Weber’s program on Minnesota Public Radio yesterday that there’s no equitable distribution of the good life that The Atlantic so portrayed in its article. Read more →

Arts & Culture

On the radio, ‘whiteness’ is more than skin deep

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 30, 2015, 12:29 PM Jan 30, 2015
9 Comments

It’s not much of a secret that public radio is white — really white. The lack of diversity has hardly gone unnoticed locally or nationally. The origins go far deeper than race. Back when I was a young college student, my Boston accent was (mostly) beaten out of me in a voice and articulation class. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Rose Parade to honor black woman kicked off float

Bob CollinsBob Collins December 31, 2014, 7:09 AM Dec 31, 2014
0 Comments

If you need a little reminder that the country has made some progress in matters of race, pay attention to who’s riding on the ‘inspiring stories’ float at the beginning of the Tournament of Roses parade tomorrow.
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Crime and Justice

Mpls. cops judged non-whites long before #pointergate

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 19, 2014, 2:58 PM Nov 19, 2014
6 Comments

This is the part of #pointergate that has been lost in the brouhaha over one incident and one indication of police attitudes toward residents of the city. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Politics

Editorial: Time for Mpls leaders to talk race

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 13, 2014, 7:03 AM Nov 13, 2014
17 Comments

Add the Star Tribune editorial to the list of journalists who find no redeeming quality in Jay Kolls’ sloppy expose of Mayor Betsy Hodges door-knocking campaign in which she was alleged to have flashed gang signs. Read more →

Politics

‘Gang sign’ story backfires on KSTP

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 7, 2014, 11:36 AM Nov 7, 2014
200 Comments

From the Department of Are You Serious comes this from KSTP, which alleges that Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges knows a gang sign.
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