Join University School of Public Health Associate Professor Rachel Hardeman in a virtual community conversation on what structural racism means for Black, Indigenous, and people of color in the Twin Cities urban areas and how it plays out in our lives. Hardeman is a 2020 UROC Research Agenda grant recipient for her project Operationalizing and Measuring Structural Racism in Minnesota, which aims to explore the measurement of the impact of structural racism in urban communities and document the ways that Black communities have been and are currently systemically disenfranchised.

The UROC Research Agenda is a framework for healing, equity and financial well-being that addresses three themes that community members and University of Minnesota researchers and practitioners identified as being critical to a thriving North Minneapolis and Twin Cities urban core. The agenda and its corresponding annual award competition aim to stimulate and guide collaborative research in the topic areas while improving outcomes through robust, long-term partnerships.

Join in a virtual conversation on racial healing, equity, and justice with Resmaa Menakem, a national expert on cultural trauma, licensed clinical social worker, founder of Justice Leadership Solutions in Minneapolis, and author of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.

Black artists and their work have never felt more in the spotlight than now, but that increased exposure brings with it a new set of questions. Join in a UROC-sponsored moderated conversation with photographers, painters and textile artists from the show as they reflect, explore and debate what it means to create Black art in America today. The event is open to the public and free of change, but registration is required.

Join staff from the University’s Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach–Engagement Center, the Public Policy Project-Environmental Justice Coordinating Council and representatives from the City of Minneapolis for an Upper Harbor Terminal (UHT) Draft Coordinated Plan online public comment session followed by a moderated Q&A session.

UROC celebrates its first decade with "Together," a photo exhibit on display at uroc.umn.edu this June.

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The University of Minnesota's Technology Empowerment Center (TEC) provides a professional online training environment for community members who want to continue developing and enhancing their technology skills beyond the basics in order to be competitive in the global workforce.

"Over-Policed and Under-Protected: Public Safety in North Minneapolis," a study spearheaded by UROC affiliated researcher and University of Minnesota School of Public Health Associate Professor Michelle Phelps, is available in the latest CURA Reporter published by the University's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.