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This week s top picks in local arts and entertainment. Written By: Christa Lawler | × Bryan Stevenson to offer virtual speech for Clayton Jackson McGhie memorial Last year s memorial events surrounding the 100th anniversary of the death of Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie, traveling circus workers who were murdered in the streets of Duluth after they were falsely accused of rape, were postponed because of the pandemic. Duluth received a historical marker at the site where Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson and Isaac McGhie were lynched in 1920. (2020 file / News Tribune) And while the committee isn t shooting for 10,000 people in the streets this year, (as was the original plan to match the amount of humans who were in the street on the night of June 15, 1920), it is offering a virtual event featuring keynote speaker Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative. Stevenson, a lawyer, works to right the very-very wrongs of the ....
Reader s View: Appointment of Pearson proper, prudent Pearson, an accomplished attorney, becomes the first Black judge in Duluth and surrounding communities and one of the few jurists of color outside of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Written By: Marshall H. Tanick, Minneapolis | 12:00 pm, Jun. 9, 2021 × Diversity and inclusion have been hallmarks of Gov. Tim Walz and his administration in appointing personnel. Those laudable characteristics were exemplified right before Memorial Day weekend when Shawn Pearson was named to fill a vacancy on the St. Louis County District Court, headquartered in Duluth (“Governor taps Pearson to replace Judge Floerke on the bench,” May 28). ....
Medcalf: Will powerful white Minnesotans live up to promises made after George Floyd’s murder? Myron Medcalf, Star Tribune Nearly 100 years before George Floyd was murdered, three African American circus workers were lynched by a white mob after they were falsely accused of raping a white woman, Irene Tusken, in Duluth. An infamous postcard from the scene of the lynchings shows proud white men posing with the bodies of Elmer Jackson, Elias Clayton and Isaac McGhie. The photo, however, does not show every character. A white priest, William Powers, climbed the light pole that night and attempted to stop the lynchings, per Michael Fedo s book The Lynchings in Duluth. That remains the choice for white Minnesotans today: complicity or empathy. ....
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