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        <title><![CDATA[Gary Cunningham]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 25, May 2013 0:32</pubDate>
        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                            
				 	
                        
			



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                    <title><![CDATA[Closing the Five Educational Achievement Gaps]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[In effect, real educational reform to address the achievement gap, particularly in Minnesota, continues to be held hostage to vested interest, local nimbyism, and outmoded social ideologies, regardless of the political party in power. Everyone, regardless of his or her political persuasion, agrees that something fundamental needs to change if we are to change the trajectory of our current dilemma. However, not many are willing to step out of line with the party orthodoxy or their comfort zones to do what is necessary to make this so. In the meantime, another generation of our children are undereducated, underemployed and in poverty.  ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Sun, 25, Mar 2012 20:37</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Marv Davidov - A Drum Major For Justice ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[A tribute to Marv Davidov, a man who committed his life to social justice and peace.  ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Sun, 15, Jan 2012 21:59</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[One of the Lucky Ones ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[I was one of the lucky ones. Thousands of people, thousands of my fellow citizens, lost their lives on 9/11. Many families lost their loved ones. I will be forever indebted to the people Gander, Newfoundland, and I will forever be in sorrow for what we all lost on 9/11. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 15, Sep 2011 17:12</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[A Tribute to Dr. Josie Robinson Johnson ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Josie Johnson’s life experience, dedication to human, and civil rights helped change the social, economic, and political landscape for all of us. We all owe Josie a great debt of gratitude for all she has done to make our community a better place of justice, equality, and opportunity for all.
 
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                    <pubDate>Sat, 20, Nov 2010 18:28</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[WE ALL DO BETTER WHEN WE ALL DO BETTER]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[What many of us fail to realize is that we are all interconnected and interrelated. What happens in Minneapolis impacts what happens in Shakopee. We are part of an interconnected and interrelated system that includes roads, transit, housing, economic infrastructure, commerce, the environment and governance. If we choose to allocate public resources to fighting crime, then we can’t support economic development or early childhood development. Unless we understand this interdependence and the need to invest in the whole community, we will continue to make inefficient and ineffective use of our limited resources. In other words, we all do better, when we all do better. 
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                    <pubDate>Wed, 22, Sep 2010 21:51</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[HONORING NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[COMMUNITY SPIRIT AWARDS CEREMONY COMES TO THE TWIN CITIES
(MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, MN) –First Peoples Fund is proud to announce that the prestigious national Community Spirit Awards will be held at the SteppingStone Theatre in St. Paul on September 10, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 3, Sep 2010 10:19</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Murder on Lake Calhoun]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Is this true? Could Minneapolis, in 2010, somehow be a bastion of discriminatory practices today – a city recognized as one of the most affordable, liberal and healthy places to live in the nation, a city that boasts the best biking and walking paths, a city with one of the highest levels of educational attainment in the country? I don’t want to believe it!  ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 10, Jun 2010 14:15</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[The Painting]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[I had dinner last night with some friends who had read some of my writings and thought that I should post them. I must admit to some trepidation in that I usually write about social or economic policy and cultural issues. I thought I would take a chance and do something different, something out of character, and something that might surprise people. Just consider what follows as a little detour. I will be back next week with more food for thought on the social, economic and cultural front. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Sun, 23, May 2010 21:5</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Reviving The American Dream ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[While everyone, with the exception of the very rich, is suffering from economic inequalities, low-income people of color have the most significant economic inequality of any group in this country. This is due in part, according to the experts, to lack of access to opportunity structures, such as good schools, transportation, housing, and social networks. These systems are mutually-reinforce one another and drive poor outcomes for the majority of low-income people of color.  ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 29, Apr 2010 19:35</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[ “Make Something Out of Nothing”: Hope on Pine Ridge]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[A few of my colleagues and I were visiting Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, as guests of Lori Pourier, president of First Peoples Fund. We were accompanied by Kelley Lindquist, president of ArtSpace and his staff. Our goal was to learn about the culture and great heritage of the Lakota people and build relationships with the Pine Ridge community. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Mon, 29, Mar 2010 22:27</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Stadiums Vs Our Children’s Future ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Art Rolnick opened the panel discussion by framing the current proposal to invest $1 billion into a new Vikings stadium, but nowhere, according to Rolnick, do you hear political leaders talking about a $1 billion investment towards early childhood development. It was an interesting way of framing a political choice to the panel. I’m not sure it was a realistic choice (in part because I love the Vikings), but it did make me think that as we choose to invest in one set of priorities, we are making a decision not to invest in others.
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                    <title><![CDATA[Minnesota: The Land of 10,000 Cuts]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Miracle, the tax and investment policy, which worked so well for decades, now lies dead at the bottom of the lake in the land of 10,000 cuts. Minnesota needs a new vision and a radically innovative approach to public service redesign if it is to move beyond the current mindset of partisan gridlock. We have to reconceptualize how we think about service delivery.
 
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                    <title><![CDATA[Mental Health: A Bipartisan Success Story]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Mental Health Action Group was a successful bipartisan effort to address some fundamental issues with the mental health system in our state. It demonstrated that we can work together across the political divide to create a better system for people and families who live with mental illness. ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Who’s your Daddy?]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Several readers inquired about my journey to find my father and his family. Many of you wanted to know more about this experience. To answer this question I have updated a relevant portion of a chapter I developed several years ago for a book entitled Black Fathers: An Invisible Presence in America.  ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Ordinary Heroes]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Last week I had the opportunity to watch Faces of America, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the local PBS television station. It is a fascinating program where Gates uses the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans. If you have the opportunity to check it out please do so. It is “off the hook.” 
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                    <description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of Minnesotans see more people struggling today than they did a year ago. Minnesotans also believe people are struggling because of circumstances beyond their control. Only 22 percent say it’s due to poor individual choices. In other words, the discussion about poverty that Minnesotans are having in their living rooms and kitchens has shifted. It is no longer about those “other people”; those “other people” are us. 

One of the significant findings in this survey is that even though times are tough, more than 55 percent of Minnesotans say they would be willing to pay $50 more in taxes if it went to local programs to help people struggling in their community.
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                    <title><![CDATA[Does Leadership Matter? ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Historically, the African-American community, through much sacrifice, has played a vital role in helping this country live up to its highest democratic values and principles. We are at another critical juncture, as we grapple in the mires of a deep recession and unending state budget deficits. We should each ask ourselves, did Dr. King die so that half of us would ‘make it,’ and half of us perish? Will we have the courage to resist balancing the state budget on the poorest of the poor? Leadership, particularly African American leadership, sits at the heart of these questions.  ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Our Children in Crisis]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[We have created, as so aptly stated in the 9-11 Commission report, “a large, steadily increasing population of young men without any reasonable expectation of suitable or steady employment—a sure prescription for social turbulence.” The logical choice, some have argued, for many disadvantaged young African-Americans with bleak futures and very few economic opportunities is to turn to activity marked by violence and the lure of more lucrative payoffs.
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                    <title><![CDATA[Unintended Consequences]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[It is clear to me that even in the face of the historic election of the first African-American President, Barack Obama, and the many other significant achievements of African-Americans; we have a long way to go before we reach Dr. Martin Luther King’s vision of a beloved community. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[This post begins to frame and provide context to who I am and how policy, culture and economics shaped me and many African-Americans who lived in the upper Midwest.
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