50th Anniversary Celebration

Inwood Oaks 484 Inwood Avenue North, Oakdale, MN, United States

The Minnesota Humanities Center is turning 50! Celebrate with the region’s most influential humanities change-makers, scholars, community members, along with nonprofit and business leaders.

Rochester – Kumbayah The Juneteenth Story

Mayo Civic Center 30 Civic Center Drive SE, Rochester, MN, United States

Kumbayah The Juneteenth Story written by Rose McGee is a 90-minute fictitious, two-act play that addresses a factual and traumatic time in our history – when news was deliberately withheld that Black people were no longer to be kept as slaves in this country. Storytelling and music weave together mesmerizing scenes.

Free

Online – True Tuesday: Coordinating a Multifaith Response to Hate Based Discrimination and Violence in MN

Online

How can religious leaders and community organizations collectively work to effectively address hate and divisiveness in Minnesota? Professor Najeeba Sayeed, El-Hibri Endowed Chair and Executive Director of Interfaith at Augsburg share the process and results from the July 20th convening as well as her own work toward countering and preventing religious based discrimination and violence, particularly with an anti-Muslim bias.

Free

Minneapolis – Westminster Town Hall Forum: Arc Toward Justice 2024

Westminster Presbyterian Church 1200 Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Wesley Lowery is the author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress. It tells the story of how the election of the nation’s first Black president fanned long-burning embers of white supremacy. Following the police killing of Michael Brown, Lowery launched Fatal Force — a real-time national database of people shot and killed by the police.

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