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Break dancers perform for people gathered in George Flyod Square for an AAPI and Black solidarity rally on Sunday in Minneapolis.
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Etheridge, who like Howard is Black, doesn’t go to the site often. She remains thankful she was nowhere in sight on May 25, 2020, the day that Floyd was killed. She thinks she would have tried to tackle the officer, who is white.
“I’d probably be dead, in the hospital or in jail,” Etheridge said.
A permanent memorial would be an important tribute, she thinks.
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“It would be helpful because it was a life,” she said. “People seen it. It was almost like something that was done to us.”
Looking back, the last large-scale events we attended last March sound other-worldly. Written By: Christa Lawler | ×
Matt McGrath (from left), Mare Winningham and Todd Almond perform a scene in “Girl from the North Country” which opened about a year ago on Broadway, but quickly closed down because of the pandemic. (Photo by Matthew Murphy)
It was a band that holds the metaphorical key to the city that played one of the last large-scale events in this region before everything was locked down in mid-March 2020.
Wilco’s concert was at Symphony Hall and, according to reviewer Tony Bennett, opened with “Bright Leaves,” featured a solo by Nils Cline “at times playing speedy jazz-rock runs … and at other times letting loose with atonal smears of color and behind the bridge squalls,” and had a guest appearance from Low’s Alan Sparhawk, known friend of the band.
Celebrating Charles Scrutchin: Minnesota s first Black lawyer outside the Twin Cities and a defender of civil rights
Charles Scrutchin was Minnesota’s first Black lawyer to practice outside of the Twin Cities. He often represented lumberjacks and other laborers, many of whom had recently immigrated to the country. In the 32 years he lived in Bemidji he handled over 500 cases in Beltrami County.
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A portrait of Charles Scrutchin by area artist Alice Blessing is on display at the Bemidji High School. The school’s media center was named after Scrutchin in 2018. Photo courtesy of the Beltrami County Historical Society.
Charles Scrutchin, Minnesota’s first Black lawyer to practice outside of the Twin Cities and frequently described in early Bemidji Pioneer stories as “Bemidji’s colored lawyer,” arrived in Bemidji just two years after the village had incorporated and soon became one of its most significant citizens.
Scrutchin often represented lumberjacks and other laborers, many of whom had recently immigrated to the country. In the 32 years he lived here, he handled over 500 cases in Beltrami County, many of them attention-getting criminal cases involving theft, graft and murder. But some of Scrutchin’s greatest accomplishments had wider ranging effects for Minnesota and the civil rights of the state’s citizens.