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A history exhibit highlighting the voices of hundreds of LGBTQ+ Minnesotans is travelling around the state.

The Minnesota Music Minute was “Unguided” by ten thousand lakes. The Song of the Day was “Payer” by Brute.

A new Minnesota history exhibit featuring the recorded voices of hundreds of LGBTQ+ Minnesotans kicked off its journey around the state Thursday.

The exhibit, “We Live On: Stories of Radical Connection” is a first for the organization Telling Queer History, which has spent eleven years gathering Minnesotans for events to remember the past and create community.

It also will be their last project. The organization is closing after it visits cities including Red Wing, Duluth and Moorhead this year. The founder of Telling Queer History, Rebecca Lawrence, joined Minnesota Now to reflect on Minnesota’s colorful history and the exhibit.

The Duluth NAACP is hosting its annual Freedom Fund Dinner on Saturday. Donations from the dinner will go to the Duluth NAACP as well as a newer organization called Ignite Empower Transform.

Through its Economic Empowerment Center started last year, the nonprofit’s single employee is working to address economic and racial inequality in Duluth, one community member at a time. In Duluth and across the state, there are racial disparities in income. Black and Native American households in northeast Minnesota made $30,000 less on average than white households in 2022, according to a state analysis of Census data.

Ignite Empower Transform’s Community Coordinator Tiffany Fenner and one of the organization’s board members, Amanda Linquist, joined Minnesota Now to share more about the new nonprofit.