Ghost of a Chance

Join us for a discussion of Eric Roper's six episode podcast examining race in Minneapolis called Ghost of a Chance.  Harry and Clementine Robinson were one of a handful of Black families who owned homes more than a century ago in what is now the whitest part of Minneapolis.  When StarTribune reporter Eric Roper moved into the same house where the Robinsons lived, he became determined to find out who they were and what happened to them.

Eric spent nearly five years piecing together the Robinsons’ lives through genealogy records, old public documents and fascinating tidbits from articles in local Black newspapers from the 1900s.  His six episode podcast took listeners on an intimate journey into Minnesota’s past through the experiences of this one trailblazing couple.