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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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MINNPOST

With covenants, racism was written into Minneapolis housing. The scars are still visible.

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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Rezoning History

Influential Minneapolis Policy Shift Links Affordability, Equity.

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Housing Crisis
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Zoning
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Northeaster Newspaper

Covenants made parts of NE and St. Anthony white.

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Stories of Resistance
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The Wedge Times

Minneapolis 2040 Charts and Maps. 

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Housing Crisis
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The Century Foundation

How Minneapolis Ended Single-Family Zoning.

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Forbes

Minneapolis Makes Room for Healing and Growth.

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Streets MN

Podcast #112: Mapping the History of Racial Covenants in Minneapolis.

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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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