On Jan. 28, 2019, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter made an announcement at St. Paul’s City Hall that caught many observers by surprise: after months of community resistance, city and county officials have ...

They didn’t chant, and they didn’t carry signs. The faces that made up the double-file line of black University of Minnesota students looked only straight ahead. They were moments away from opening a ...

Jesse, an inmate whose name has been changed for his safety, began his incarceration in 2006 initially working as a baker for 25 cents an hour in St. Cloud. He later got a job pressing license plates ...

Since 2015 we as a nation have witnessed more than 900 extrajudicial killings of people of color – 491 of them Black – at the hands of law enforcement. Though the names of the slain ring out over ...

Recent experiences suggest that the generations-old practice of collective bargaining as the normal, if not dominant, method of negotiating the terms of unionized employment is losing its legitimacy.

Rock the Garden took over the Walker Art Center for two nights on Saturday and Sunday, June 21 and 22. Lizzo, Jeremy Messersmith, Best Coast, Matt And Kim, De La Soul, Dessa, Valerie June, Kurt Vile, ...

The faces stare up at you from the folded tabloid newspaper on sale at the your nearest convenience store: hundreds of photos of people at what might be the worst moment of their lives, available to ...

County records show that TCF National Bank, which is also the mortgage lender to LWCC, bought the property. Per Minnesota law, Living Word has until July 28, 2011, to redeem the property by securing ...

APIs4BlackLives-MN is a coalition of Minnesota Asian and Pacific Islander (API) individuals and organizations that work for social justice in solidarity with Black Lives Matter (BLM) – Minneapolis and ...

Two years ago, founders of St. Paul’s East Side Freedom Library founders Beth Cleary and Peter Rachleff opened the doors to an institution that is changing what a library can be and can do for ...

[Image at right: Rendering of the coming Anpetu Was’te cultural market on Franklin Avenue.] Franklin Avenue was once the border of Minneapolis, marking the edge of the city. Before that it was home to ...

“Ah, thank god it’s winter again,” said no Minnesota commuter ever. Winter in the Twin Cities means at least three things for commuters: slower driving, jam-packed bus rides, and less biking. However, ...