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is burning.
That’s how Rockford poet and activist Christopher D. Sims’ poem “Minneapolis is Burning” begins. He said he wrote the piece after inhaling the fumes brought on by George Floyd’s death.
“I could feel the groundswell,” he recalled. “I could feel it, I could see it. So, I wanted to capture all of that.”
Sims was active in many of the Rockford protests that happened over the summer. He said he knows people in Minneapolis and St. Paul and he wanted to capture their story.
Although places in the city were indeed burning, Sims had another reason for using that description in his writing.
It’s been just over a year since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. During that time, northern Illinois protests mirrored national calls against
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Mike Schneider May 27, 2021 - 1:59 PM
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) â First came the ânoiseâ â small errors the U.S. Census Bureau decided to introduce into the 2020 census data to protect participants privacy. Now the bureau is looking into âsynthetic data,â manipulating the numbers widely used for economic and demographic research, to obscure the identities of people who provided information.
The moves have some researchers up in arms, worried that the statistical agency could sacrifice accuracy in its zeal to protect privacy.
Census Bureau statisticians disclosed at a virtual conference last week that over the next three years they will work toward developing a method to create âsynthetic data for files on individuals and homes that already are devoid of personalized information. These files, known as American Community Survey microdata, are used by researchers to create customized tables tailored to their research.