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Twin Cities Residents Cover Sidewalks With Positive Messages

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Sidewalk chalk messages with post-election notes of inclusiveness and love have popped up around the Twin Cities.

The Pioneer Press reports that St. Paul resident Sharon Rosenberg-Scholl wrote "We love immigrants" in front of her house this weekend. Similar messages have appeared in chalk around the area, and hundreds of photos of them have been posted with the hashtag #NeighborhoodLoveNotes.

The idea came from the Rev. Ashley Horan, executive director of the Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance and a Unitarian Universalist clergywoman from Minneapolis.

Horan says she believed President-elect Donald Trump's victory has empowered people to speak negatively about Muslims and immigrants, make racist slurs, and put down women and LGBTQ community members. On her sidewalk she wrote phrases such as "No one is illegal" in Spanish and "Black lives will always matter."

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