Racial Profiling Report - September 2003

Star Tribune - Editorial - September 30, 2003

Grand Forks Herald - Report: Minorities face more police stops - September 25, 2003

Pioneer Press - Study: Racial profiling a statewide problem - September 25, 2003

Brainerd Post Dispatch - RACIAL PROFILING STUDY: Police stop minorities more often than whites - September 24, 2003

Star Tribune - Cops Stop Whites Less, Find More Contraband - September 25, 2003

Minnesota Public Radio - Report: Police stop minorities more often than whites - September 24, 2003

WCCO News - Report: Police Stop Minorities More Often Than Whites - September 24, 2003

Does Racism in Motion Have to Stay in Motion?
Nonprofits as a Force Against Structural Racism
by john powell (The NonProfit Quarterly - Race and Power, Volume 9; Issue 2, Summer 2002)

My parents bought a home in Detroit that is soon to become memorialized in a documentary film about segregation and housing. If our family home were located in the suburbs of Detroit it would be worth 10 times what it is today. In fact, its value is a slim fraction of that of similar suburban homes. Why is this the case?

Urban Sprawl is a Civil Rights Issue - (Journal of Urban Ecology, Winter 2001)

Everybody knows that urban sprawl is not a natural phenomenon. It isn’t simply a product of population growth, and it isn’t just the result of people wanting to live farther away from the central city. Although sprawl is often described as “unchecked development” or “unplanned growth,” over the past dozen years we have come to understand that sprawl is the predictable outcome of governmental policies...

On Race and Space
Urban sprawl, the outward development of metropolitan areas, relocates jobs and tax bases away from central cities and first-ring suburbs. University law professor john powell believes people of color are disproportionately affected by sprawl and that such exclusion from opportunities is not new.

A day to lament failures of democracy
As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day this year, it is critical to reflect on the state of our democracy. Of late, questioning today's political trends has been portrayed by those in government and the media as unpopular and unpatriotic...

Racial Profiling is Undemocratic and Unconstitutional (St. Paul Pioneer Press,
June 13, 2001) - originally published under a different title

Racial Profiling - Press Release May 22, 2001

Bush should match his rhetoric with action - (Knight-Ridder News Service)

Measure of a Man: Is former Sen. John Ashcroft the right person to be the next U.S. Attorney General?
(St. Paul Pioneer Press , January 28, 2001)  

If not the courts, whom can we trust?
(November 15, 2000)

Election abused the rights of minority voters (Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 19, 2000)

Racing the Social Security Debate
(Syndicated by the Progressive Media Project through the Knight-Ridder News Service on Oct. 19, 2000)

Whites Will Be Whites: The Failure to Interrogate Racial Privilege
(University of San Francisco Law Review, Vol. 34, Spring 2000, Number 3)

Race, Poverty & Globalization
(Poverty & Race, May/June 2000)

Urban Woes, Ecological Blight Civil-Rights Activists, Conservationists Share Same Goals
(The Miami Herald, 4/2/00)

How sprawl makes us poor
(The Albuquerque Tribune, 3/22/00)

Achieving Racial Justice: What's Sprawl Got to Do With it?
(Poverty & Race, September/October 1999)

What We Need To Do About The 'Burbs: An Interview with john powell
(ColorLines, Fall 1999)

Race, Poverty, and Urban Sprawl: Access to Opportunities Through Regional Strategies
(The Forum for Social Economics, Spring 1999)

Counterpoint: To address the lack of affordable housing
(Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 1/23/99)

Segregation, even as 'neighborhood schools,' never truly voluntary
(St. Paul Pioneer Press, 2/4/99)

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