A $1.25 million grant has been awarded by the Minnesota Department of Health to Winona’s Family & Children Center (FCC) to expand its home-visiting program, Healthy Families, into Winona County.
The foundation received 20 applications for a cumulative $166,230 in community grant requests. In all, ten applications were accepted for a total of $73,579 awarded in their second grant cycle of 2022.
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Haskell Indian Nations University professor Daniel Wildcat is pictured on campus outside of Hiawatha Hall on March 10.
Haskell Indian Nations University professor Daniel Wildcat has been an advocate for over two decades for restoring one of the campus’ central buildings, and now he wants to tie it to another project: a place to discuss justice.
The building is Hiawatha Hall, a structure built in 1898 that used to serve a variety of functions chapel space, a gym for female students, a location for theater performances. But for over 20 years, Wildcat estimates, the building has sat dormant and in disrepair. Wildcat said the idea to use the building as a place to discuss justice issues “just kind of hit me like a thunderbolt” while he was thinking about events and tensions of the past year, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and the nation’s stark political divisions.
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A sign at the entrance to Haskell Indian Nations University is shown Friday, Aug. 5, 2016.
Haskell Indian Nations University’s new Hiawatha Center for Justice is hosting an online forum Thursday about the Black American experience.
Kevin Willmott, an Academy-Award winning screenwriter and University of Kansas film and media studies professor, will host a discussion about the past and present injustices Black Americans face, and what steps can be taken to create institutions that embrace systemic justice. Willmott will be joined by two other panelists: Randal Jelks, an award-winning author and KU professor of American Studies and African and African-American Studies, and Alex Kimball Williams, a community activist and health equity planner with Lawrence-Douglas County Public Health.