Prior Lake High students find voice, power in wake of Twin Cities racial turmoil
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| | | Prior Lake High students find voice, power in wake of Twin Cities racial turmoil |
Prior Lake High School student Eden Alemu was a 14-year-old sophomore when she realized for the first time that she could change the world around her.
It was April 2021 and Eden, who is Black, hadn’t been attending classes in person for more than a year due to the pandemic. But she left her Google Meets class on the screen of her laptop in her bedroom and went to stand outside her high school with more than 100 other students to protest the police killing of Daunte Wright, a Black Minnesotan not much older than Eden and her friends.
It was Eden’s first walkout and it transformed her. Standing with students at a rally organized by young people, calling out the killing as an injustice together with thousands of other students around the state, she felt herself move from shock and pain over Wright’s killing to action.
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His solo exhibition, “Transdimensional Multiversal Nonlinear Cosmic Traveler,” which features dozens of paintings, ceramic works and poems, runs through April 14 at the Interact Gallery in St. Paul.
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