Maple Grove To Host Online ‘Community Forum On Race’ April 28

MAPLE GROVE, MN — Maple Grove and Osseo Area Schools officials are teaming up with other local organizations to host the 9th annual Community Forum on Race next week.

The online event — subtitled “The children are our future: How are the children doing?” — will feature a panel of students from fifth grade to college freshmen who will lead a discussion on the impacts of race and racism in the region.

The event will also have breakout rooms for small-group conversations where participants “can share their own stories,” organizers said.

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“We often hear adults share about the impacts of race in their lives, but youth rarely have platforms to share the experience of how race impacts their daily lives,” organizers wrote on Eventbrite, where residents can register for the event.

The 9th annual Community Forum on Race is scheduled to run from 6:30-8:15 p.m. April 28.

“W.E.B. Dubois wrote that ‘The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line,’” organizers said. “Today, America is still dealing with racial issues in communities, schools, the health sector, housing sectors and various forms of systems.”

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Maple Grove and Osseo Area Schools are cosponsoring the forum with Brooklyn Park; Hennepin Technical College; North Hennepin Community College; Community Mediation & Restorative Services; and the Northwest Suburban Integration School District.

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