Minnesota: Responses to Racial Injustices
Wintana Melekin speaking at 2014 NOC meeting

A 2016 study done by WalletHub ranked Minnesota last for progress with regards to racial equity the condition that would be achieved if one's racial identity no longer predicted, in a statistical sense, how one fares. When we use the term, we are thinking about racial equity as one part of racial justice, and thus we also include work to address root causes of inequities not just their manifestation. This includes elimination of policies, practices, attitudes and cultural messages that reinforce differential outcomes by race or fail to eliminate them. This means that Minnesotans of color are significantly more disadvantaged in comparison to white Minnesotans, and the gap is worse than in any other state in the U.S.