Creative Visions announces 25th anniversary fundraiser July 23 Friday, July 2, 2021 3:12 PM Creative Visions, a Des Moines nonprofit serving economically vulnerable individuals and families in the region, is hosting a fundraiser to celebrate the combined 25th anniversary of the organization and 70th birthday of its founder, Iowa Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad. A dinner will be held on July 23 in the Olmsted Center at Drake University; tickets are available online.
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I am proud to have worked with the legislature to promote learning, not discriminatory indoctrination, she added.
Specifically, the bill prohibits public colleges in Iowa and governmental agencies from teaching 10 divisive concepts in diversity training, including the idea that one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex, that the United States of America and the state of Iowa are fundamentally or systemically racist or sexist.
Democratic opponents to the bill
criticizedthe measure as trying to shut down conversations on race. We can t have it both ways, Democratic state Rep. Ako Abdul-Samad said. We can t say on one hand we want freedom of speech, on another hand say we want to hear both sides and then stifle those sides.
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One year after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Iowans remember his legacy in downtown Des Moines. They pray for a better future with racial equity and social justice.
The one year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer brought a mixture of emotions for people gathered at a memorial held in downtown Des Moines.
Rev. Rob Johnson, the director of No Justice No Peace, helped host the memorial and opened the event.
“We want to make sure that we commemorate this moment, that on this day one year ago, something in the middle of COVID, in the middle of a pandemic happened to our community. It may have happened three and a half hours up the road. But it still happened here as well, Johnson said before handing the microphone off to emcee Al Womble, chair of the Iowa Democratic Black Caucus.