Listen Now
Pledge Now



 
 

WTIP follows up on 'racism in Cook County' community conversation

  • warning: Division by zero in /home/wtip/archive.wtip.org/sites/all/themes/wtipll/node-story.tpl.php on line 109.
  • warning: Division by zero in /home/wtip/archive.wtip.org/sites/all/themes/wtipll/node-story.tpl.php on line 109.
  • warning: Division by zero in /home/wtip/archive.wtip.org/sites/all/themes/wtipll/node-story.tpl.php on line 109.
A Justice for George Floyd pop-up rally lined Highway 61 in Grand Marais on May 29. Photo by Rhonda Silence
A Justice for George Floyd pop-up rally lined Highway 61 in Grand Marais on May 29. Photo by Rhonda Silence

Related Stories

Lutsen Trail Breakers Snowmobile Club logo -- Image courtesy of the snowmobile club .JPG
Another break-in on Cook County's West End
Boundary Waters in winter. Photo by Joe Friedrichs
DNR halts environmental review of proposed mine near the BWCA
Snowshoe hikers on the Cascade River before disaster struck, Feb. 12, 2022 - Submitted photo
Grand Marais woman survives a near-disastrous snowshoe hike on Cascade River
| Joe Friedrichs- Thu, 06/04/2020 - 9:16am

In October 2017, WTIP hosted a community conversation program about racism in Cook County. One of the people who joined the discussion that night was Dave Nonnemacher, the father of two adopted girls who are from Liberia, West Africa. Dave, his wife Jody, and the two girls moved to Duluth in 2017 after the girls experienced racist bullying in Cook County.  

WTIP’s Joe Friedrichs checked in with Nonnemacher for an update on how things are going for the family after moving to Duluth, and in the wake of the recent news about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and a national discussion about racism in America.
 

Listen: 

Share