Duluth's Dudley Edmondson collaborated with Walter Griffin, a pioneering peer based in Minneapolis, to craft a short film spotlighting Griffin's life and work.
Daniel Smith, an Army veteran who was 90 when he died at a hospital in Washington, D.C., was one of the last remaining children of enslaved Black Americans, and a rare direct link to slavery in the United States.
He grew up hearing stories from his father, who was born into bondage during the Civil War. Decades later, he marched for civil rights in Washington and Selma.