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Home My WebLink About2018-09-04 Sanford Berman Correspondence (Retention Aug 2021)• NI — ;ail • - • • by dropping ov w lc are ley Friends of -the Smithsonian Contributhigktembathip 9-4-18 Dear TF Members, a recommendation that Hennepin County Library -Am,. impadt-pdor pli no "Many POC. _ otd Berran 4400 MorniAside Road Edina, MN -b5416 952 925-5738 P.S. Want more documentation? I'll gladly supply it. • L..1 Lij LE .I 1. RACISM, RACISM, RENT AND REAL ESTATE: FAIR HOUSING REFRAMED LAU This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, landmark legislation authored by Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale. Through a multi-event series, "Racism, Rent and Real Estate: Fair Housing Reframed" will use the history of and current organizing in communities across Hennepin County to explore the racial segregation in housing that led to the Fair Housing Act, identify how racialized barriers to housing still manifest today and create the community and political will to make change. Join us in these cross-sector, community-centered conversations to chart a course for housing equity. CONVENED BY Mapping Prejudice Project, Minnesota Housing Partnership, and Mill City Consulting — with more than a dozen community partners. Qs? CONTACT Cara Letofsky, Principal at Mill City Consulting at 612-718-3495 or cara@millcityconsulting.info. LEARN MORE: mh ponl ine.o rg/fai rho usingrefra med Facebook:/fairhousingreframed EVENT SERIES A/JUNE 21: Mapping Neighborhood History: Reclaiming and Reframing Fair Housing Sabathani Community Center with Mapping Prejudice Project 1/ JULY 21: Housing Discrimination Revealed: History of Race and Real Estate in Minneapolis Bus Tour Preserve Minneapdis I Central Neighborhood AUG 16 -JAN 20 I RECEPTION AUG 23: [Exhibit] Owning Up: Racism and Housing in Minneapolis Hennepin History Museum with the U of MN SEPT 18 AND 22: Movie: "Sold Out: Tenants Using the Fair Housing Act to Fight Displacement" Central Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park libraries OCTOBER 10: Critical Conversation on Racism, Rent, and Real Estate Urban Research & Outreach-Engagement Center and Mapping Prejudice OCTOBER 16: From Redlining to Predatory Lending: The Racial Wealth Gap Mpls Urban League with Jewish Community Action OCTOBER 25: The Future of Fair Housing: Where Do We Go From Here? Sabathani Community Center with MN Housing Partnership and others SPONSORED BY 4W IFFIVERSITT Minneapolis CammonUcnU Standish Hiawatha _ law 1. • VeL... • 'Ir. Linden Hills Whittier acmamw vac ST %V mg • Uptown GINIIST11, Tangleloan Elm Harriet King Field 1- 4.11131V11 4Iae hs" MappingPrejudice.org cuamoon ArE 351114STE 112111115TE S S e 43..nr ^ MInneluh3 SAMMY Kenny - pg s . Windom USTSM arY :Si Northrop MIME prosp, Poll Seward •••• St a. - # Lon.fetio3cil 411 0 • r SP/JaLLI11•11 Phdilps 41.1111..1. -Le Victory Webber Comden Dome. Kit 5 McKinley ire 4! ISM111,101 ..10,d211 Hawthorne I !Avenel! Ylaile Pail. Terrace rer Amlilly5n mvanuma l'Andout Pari, Logan Fad, aomarvaurtaa Willard Hay Mapping Prejudice aeW 6110...0.1STM C) Si Anthony _APP"\-- a-n dle a-r-a ore a Illapping-rep.ice.or g pi-aggreyadice Racial covenants were used to bar people who were not white from buying or occupying property in Minneapolis. These discriminatory deeds underpinned an invisible system of American apartheid. We are building a map to document this history. We need your help. :4-StarTribune THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018 STARTRIBUNE.COM/LOCAL • SECTION B MINNESOTA LOCALT.G Mayor: No more late fees at library Plan would make St. Paul among the first in state to implement such a policy. By JAMES WALSH james.walsh@startribune.com Toni Carter watched her Son the mayor bounce with excitement as he announced an amnesty for 51,000 St. Paul library cardholders who owe money for over- due books. "He's abook guy," explained the longtime Ramsey County commissioner. St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter's proposal would wipe the slate clean for delinquent cardholders whose rights to borrow have been revoked since 2009. Carter not only wants to forgive more than $2.5 million in accumulated fees, he wants to eliminate late fees altogether. He is asking the City Council to approve $215,000 in additional library funding for 2019 to replace revenue collected each year in fines. "That will unlock the doors to our libraries, so that we can truly say that every- one in our community is wel- come at the St. Paul Public Library and that everyone in our community can afford to check out a book from the St. Paul Public Library," Carter said to applause Wednesday at the Rondo Community Library. Carter has proposed a total library budget for 2019 of $20 million, a 3.2 percent increase from this year. If the City Council approves Carter's plan in October, officials say that St. Paul will join Wash- ington County and other cities outside Minnesota, including St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter's plan would forgive $2.5M in outstanding charges. Salt Lake City, Nashville and Eau Claire, Wis., in eliminat- ing late fees. For years, St. Paul Public Library staff members have discussed eliminating late fees as a way to make the library accessible to every- one. After more than six months of research, includ- ing interviews with library users, Carter joined forces with library staff to propose doing away with the fees. Library users would still be asked to pay for lost or dam- aged items. The mayor, who as a child spent hours curled up with books at the public library near his house, said he met many people across the city who admitted they haven't been to the library in years because of late fees. It's time, he said, to let them come back "Between the covers of a See BOOKS on B8 ► refuse to let a child check out a book because a member of his or her family has overdue fines. The mayor's proposal, Rag- land said, "will change lives in a way that I don't even think we can understand. This will be so incredible." Carter said widespread access to a. strong library system is at the center of his administration's three pil- lars: public safety, by giving children positive places to go and activities to do; lifelong learning, by giving adults access to information; and economic justice, by being conduits for people starting businesses or doing their taxes. "The library is so much more than a collection of books," Carter said. "This is a center of the community?' James Walsh • 612-673-7428 "That will unlock the doors to our libraries, so that we can truly say that everyone in our community ... can afford to check out a book." St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, on plan to eliminate late fees -4 BOOKS from B1 good library book every sin- gle child in every single part of our city can travel the world — from the bottom of the ocean to the edge of the galaxy, and back. ,For free," Carter said. "But, you know what? That's not really the case." Nearly one in five St. Paul library cardholders are blocked because of overdue fines, staff research showed. At the Rondo library, more than a third of registered cards are blocked, in keeping with research that showed the percentage of blocked cards is higher in poorer neighbor- hoods. Because of the long-stand- ing practice oflevying fines for overdue books and then revok- ing privileges for unpaid fmes, library workers said many families have been forced to choose betweenpaying library fines or paying for other neces- sities. Pang Yang, a library proj- ect manager who said she has worked at every library in the city, recalled a young mother with three children coming into the library who had accumulated fines for a book she'd probably checked out as a teenager and forgot- ten. She was there to get books for her daughter for the start of school. "As I was telling her about the fmes, I could see the physi- cal anxiety take over her body," Yang said, saying she later over- heard the mother and daugh- ter trying to decide between paying the fines or getting din- ner. "People shouldn't have to decide what they are going to feed: their bellies or their brains." Antwan "A.J." Ragland, who works at the Arlington Hills Library, said the issue hits low- income families the hardest — families whose primary access to books and other informa- tion is through the library. He said it's heartbreaking to 'ISIld1SITIN Sll Old0 NM0 01 S110d113NNIIN NW 311111SW ...11,1,q5 .41 410.108S SI! 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