Ashley Fairbanks serves on our Advisory Board, heads up our Community Engagement Committee, is preparing a brand new radio show for us, and has done a bit of design work at the station as well. She's also a badass designer and public artist, as well as a seasoned organizer. Somehow, Ashley found time to serve as [...]
In the last post from our partners at Ramsey Middle School, we learned about the Lee Family who were the first African-Americans to buy a house in South Minneapolis. This week, they follow up on that report with an investigation into redlining -- the practice of mapping out which neighborhoods people of different ethnicities are allowed to [...]
This week, we present two strong recordings from our 6th-grade partners at Ramsey Middle School. In the first, we learn about the history of the Lee Family. In 1931, the Lees were one of the first African American families to purchase a home in South Minneapolis, and over the course of the next year they [...]