Minnesota yanks race-based grant after DOJ initiated Civil Rights review, DOJ reveals

Minnesota's Department of Health (MDH) voluntarily suspended a grant program that was specifically based on race after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated a Civil Rights Act compliance review, the DOJ said in a Tuesday announcement. The Capacity Strengthening Initiative, according to the DOJ, was a grant program which "limited eligible grantees to organizations that worked with ' people of color ,' provided 'strategic consideration' and 'gave priority' to proposals from organizations