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Ths Cultural Wellness Center is founded in Minneapolis.

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In a city with one of the highest racial gaps in healthcare and education–particularly between Black folks and white folks, and between Native folks and white folks–where Black babies die at significantly higher rates than white babies, the Cultural Wellness Center flips the script by asking not why babies die, but rather what supports babies to live.

Through conversations with elders and culture holders, they develop the "People's Theory of Sickness," pointing to individualism, loss of community, and loss of culture, along with internalized oppression, and biased neglect and racism in the healthcare system.