At The Uptake, Bill Sorem notes:
As Minnesota’s painful racial disparities, which Gov. Mark Dayton has pledged $100 million to address, have reached a crisis point, leaders of black communities from throughout Minnesota have come together to create a United Black Legislative Agenda for the 2016 legislative session and beyond. Leaders in the Black community will unveil the agenda and concrete recommendations during a press conference today at 1:30 p.m.
Scheduled to speak:
-Steve Belton, Urban League
-Anthony Newby, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change
-Dr. Louis Porter II, Executive Director, Council of Minnesotans of African Heritage
-Jeff Hassan, African American Leadership Forum
-Wintana Melekin, Neighborhoods Organizing for Change
-Jason Sole, Minneapolis NAACP
-Asha Long and Mica Grimm, Black Lives Matter Minneapolis
-Mohamed Farah, Somali Community of Minnesota
Here's the agenda:
United Black Legislative Agenda
Photo: Anthony Newby of NOC (center)
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