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"This work needs to go deeper than listening"

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published March 20, 2019 at 10:43 AM CDT

The passionate young people of the civil rights movement in the '60s have given way to passionate young people of today, engaged in movements that are simultaneously new and depressingly familiar.

Jordon Moses is one of the speakers at a panel discussion tonight (TED at the Teatro, Anti-racism in the US: A panel on race & racism) and he points out that every generation understands different things about the work of ending racism in this country.

But fundamentally, he says, it's about making connections and a commitment.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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