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Mapping Prejudice has worked with a wide variety of media makers and researchers to tell the stories and explain the significance of racial covenants. Below you'll find news stories, presentations, journal articles and resources for educators.

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TIME. Magazine

George Floyd’s Death and the Long History of Racism in Minneapolis.

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The Washington Post

Racial inequality in Minneapolis is among the worst in the nation.

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MINNPOST

Is Minneapolis prepared to dismantle — not just acknowledge — structural racism?

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Quartz

Minneapolis is proud of its liberal politics, but its black population is still struggling

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U.S. News

The ‘Minnesota Paradox’: A State Grapples With Stark Racial Disparities.

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Le Monde

Mort de George Floyd : Minneapolis, la ville aux deux visages

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MINNPOST

Supporting racial equity means supporting affordable homeownership.

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The Atlantic

Minneapolis had this coming

My hometown faces not just a rebuilding but a reckoning.

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inman

How racism in property deeds affected generations.

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Map of Chicago neighborhoods."This Home Owners’ Loan Corporation map and document from 1940 describes Maywood and its Black population in this way: "The area is of mixed and rather poor appearance and unlikely to improve very much due to the age and low grade population, of which considerable portion are negroes. This is fourth grade because of poor prospects and undesirable population."

Chicago Tribune

Disinvestment in Black and Latino Chicago neighborhoods is rooted in policy. Here’s how these communities continue to be held back.

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The Conversation

Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson from Minneapolis

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Mpls St Paul Magazine

How Mapping Prejudice Is Visualizing Residential Segregation

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National Geographic

Racist housing policies have created some oppressively hot neighborhoods

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MINNPOST

Eliminating AFFH, the Obama-era housing rule: What it really means

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TedxMinneapolis

The Geography of Inequality

Today, Minneapolis has some of the worst racial disparities in the United States. In this talk, Mapping Prejudice co-founder, Kevin Ehrman-Solberg shows how these contemporary disparities are rooted in the spatial practices of the past.

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