Dig a little deeper.
Explore these educational resources, projects and opportunities to better understand what we’re trying to achieve.
Mapping Prejudice.
In 2016 Mapping Prejudice, which is based in the Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota, used Hennepin County records to create the first-ever comprehensive visualization of racial covenants for Hennepin County.
Use the map below to see if your property has a restrictive covenant.
- Click on “Search Property” below to begin your search.
- Select the
to type in the address. - A property highlighted in green indicates a discriminatory deed was found. Select the property to read the synopsis.
- A property appearing in gray indicates no discriminatory deed was found or this county hasn’t been mapped.
- To discharge a covenant or search city records for a deed, see FAQs for homeowners, buyers and sellers.
Videos and podcasts.
These documentaries and discussions feature often unsettling and unflinching tellings of history.
This documentary charts the progression of racist policies and practices in Minnesota from the advent of restrictive covenants after the turn of the last century to their final elimination in the late 1960s.
Undergrads taking the Courageous Resistance seminar researched impacts of systemic racism in housing on various life outcomes, including the environment, transportation and education.
The cofounder of Mapping Prejudice discusses how his team’s visualizations show restrictive deed covenants in Minneapolis that enforced racial segregation until the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
Comedian Adam Conover uses inventive storytelling that’s funny and serious at the same time to inform viewers of the hidden truths behind redlining in suburban housing.
From passionate pleas for reform to poetic turns of phrase, these discussions take an honest look at everyday realities of Black Americans and illuminate the way forward.
This webinar recording explores the policies and practices of federal, state and local governments that discriminate against communities of color.
This webinar recording explores the policies and practices of federal, state and local governments that discriminate against communities of color.
‘Segregated By Design’ examines the forgotten history of how our federal, state and local governments unconstitutionally segregated every major metropolitan area in America through law and policy.
Jamar Hardy, a founder of Just Deeds and real estate broker at Edina Realty speaks at a panel discussion hosted by the League of Women Voters, about current housing issues and the Just Deeds project.
How have Minnesotans responded to the rising awareness of racist covenants, red lining, and other forms of damaging segregation? This digital series uncovers this dark history of systemic racism, but also lifts up Black resistance in the past and the present-day changemakers bringing it to light and looking to right historical housing injustices.
In early 2019, Twin Cities PBS/TPT premiered a documentary called Jim Crow of the North, which seeks to answer the question, “Why does Minnesota suffer from some of the worst racial disparities in the nation?” This series is a follow up to that documentary.