Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), plan sponsors must act in the best interest of their beneficiaries. However, with the increasing demand for sustainable and socially responsible investments, ERISA fiduciaries are now under pressure to integrate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria into their portfolios. Furthermore, the US Department of Labor (DOL) issued new rules outlining the factors that fiduciaries should consider when making investment decisions.
Mapping Prejudice mobilizes community members to identify and map racial covenants. Racial covenants are clausesc — a couple of lines of texts — that were embedded into property deeds to keep people who were not White from buying or occupying homes. From its base in the University of Minnesota Libraries, the team works in partnership with communities across the state and the nation.
Dr. Kirsten Delegard will narrate this history of covenants and the constellation of related practices that restricted access to housing and land ownership for people who were not White. She will also describe the innovative methodologies used in this work. Together, we will explore the question of next steps to address the damage wrought by these policies.
Title:
Confronting History in Place: The Mapping Prejudice Project
Date+Time:
November 16, 2023 noon-1 p.m.
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Speaker:
Dr. Kirsten Delegard is one of the co-founders of the award-winning Mapping Prejudice project, which roots contemporary racial inequalities in the history of discriminatory housing practices. Delegard is a graduate of the Minneapolis Public Schools, Wesleyan University and holds a Ph.D. in history from Duke University. Over the last decade, she has devoted her energy to the public history of her hometown of Minneapolis. This focus led to Mapping Prejudice and the Historyapolis Project, which Delegard also founded.
By:
Dakota County Law Library
