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Segregation in the "Left-Behind" Suburbs


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Minneapolis city at center of fresh protests has been changing fast


Minneapolis city at center of fresh protests has been changing fast
John Reinan, Star Tribune
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Hajah Konneh, owner of M and B Hair Braiding and Beauty Supply, tidied shelves in her Brooklyn Center store.
MINNEAPOLIS Founded by a member of the Ku Klux Klan and now a city where most residents are people of color, Brooklyn Center embodies the challenges and the promise of a rapidly changing America.
Residents old and new say it s a wonderful place to live, where thriving immigrant-owned businesses have emerged in the wake of job losses in traditional industries and people of all kinds get along. Yet the suburb of 31,000 just north of Minneapolis has become an international symbol of racial turmoil in the week since Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, was shot and killed by a white police officer during a traffic stop. ....

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Unrest in Minnesota town offers warning to other U.S. suburbs, experts say


Unrest in Minnesota town offers warning to other U.S. suburbs, experts say
Tim Craig, Silvia Foster-Frau
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Pedestrians walk past the Brooklyn Center, Minn., water tower.
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn When William Adams moved to this area a few years ago, he joined thousands of Minneapolis residents in transforming Brooklyn Center from the mostly White suburb it once was into one where people of color account for more than half the population.
But as he tried to settle into the community, Adams, who is Black, was always reminded of how Brooklyn Center police used to harass him in the early 1970s when he came to visit his girlfriend, who was White. ....

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