Each month, members of our Equity Committee and our extended Tangletown community share resources they’ve found helpful as they look to expand their understanding of racial justice and equity. If you’re interested in submitting a suggestion to be featured, please email info@tangletown.org. Sign up for our monthly email newsletter to receive these suggestions on a monthly basis.
Centering Indigenous Voices
For April’s Equity Resource, Deb White Soulen, Tangletown resident, suggested we listen to our Indigenous neighbors/community, who are often forgotten in […]
Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
For this month’s equity resource, Washburn High School Principal Emily Palmer recommends the book Black Dignity in a World Made […]
The Great Climate Migration
For this month’s equity resource, Equity Committee member Ellen Block recommends the article “The Great Climate Migration” by Abrahm Lustgarten. […]
Facing Forward: Housing Access
The monthly equity resource comes to you from a new Equity Committee member Shannon Mitchell. The resource pairs with the […]
Breaking Bread, Building Bridges
For this month’s equity resource, Equity Committee member Kyle Goldschmidt recommends the documentary Breaking Bread, Building Bridges, which won the 2020 Governor’s […]
Maps Illustrating Systematic Racism in our City
As part of the Equity Committee research into understanding of systemic issues of segregation in Minneapolis, member Nancy Hamilton Britt […]
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
This month’s resource comes from new Equity Committee member Jessie Krohn: Resmaa Menakem is a Twin Cities-based body-centered therapist who […]
The Case for Reparations
For this month’s equity resource, Equity Committee member Ellen Block recommends “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Written by […]
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
For this month’s equity resource, Equity Committee Member Andrea Siegel recommends, Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by […]
Just Mercy
This month’s equity resource comes from committee member Lori Gubrud, “I have read three books that all have provided insight […]
Crazy Rich Asians and The Farewell
This month, Equity Task Force member Victoria Fok shares her personal experience of the importance of representation in media, “Growing […]
Seeing White
This month’s Equity Resource is shared by task force member Lauren Day: I have spent most of my life in […]
I Am Not Your Negro
Equity Task Force Member Pat Collins shares, “Growing up in the 50s and 60s in the white bubble of a […]
White Privilege: Unpacking the invisible Knapsack
Equity Task Force Member Juliann Brunzell served 33 years in law enforcement and saw firsthand the workings of the Criminal […]
Death of Innocence
From Equity Task Force Member Leah Sweet: A few years ago, I picked up a copy of Death of Innocence: […]
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
From Equity Task Force Member Stijn Vanhauwaert: “Not having grown up in this country, I felt that I have never […]
Nice White Parents Podcast
A note from Tangletown’s Executive Director: “As Tangletown’s staff person and due to my personal interest in the issue, I’ve […]