Uncovering Truth

Dr. Kirsten Delegard is director of the University of Minnesota’s Mapping Prejudice Project. This work was born of community need in Minnesota, which has some of the largest racial disparities in the nation. These inequities are most pronounced in the area of housing, which is foundational to health and well-being. Delegard will address the history of redlining in our neighborhoods—the practice of racial covenants, clauses that were inserted into property deeds to keep non-White people from buying or occupying homes—how this has and does affect our community today. What happens when people are intentionally excluded from community? How does the community move forward and heal?