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Leaders of the national Target boycott gathered outside the retailer’s downtown Minneapolis headquarters Thursday to demand renewed public participation in their nearly year-long campaign. Leaders of the national Target boycott say the this holiday season marks the boycott’s most decisive moment yet and is an opportunity to underscore consumer anger over Target’s rollback of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) commitments and its political alignment with the Trump administ

Update: At the November 18 Eagan City Council meeting, community members delivered an urgent demand: find your humanity and remove the officers involved in the death of Kingsley Bimpong. Activists called for an independent investigation, a review of medical response protocols, and better training. Above all, they demanded accountability, starting with firing the officers whose actions and inactions left Kingsley dying on a cold jail floor when he should have been in a hospit

Ten years ago today, 24-year-old Jamar Clark was shot in the head and killed by Minneapolis police officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze. His death ignited weeks of protest outside the Fourth Precinct and became a defining moment in Minneapolis’ reckoning with police violence. A decade later, no officer has faced discipline or charges, and Jamar’s mother, Irma Burns, says her grief and her fight for accountability remain as heavy as ever.

The project by Ryan Stopera and Diana Albrecht turns immigrant recipes into living stories of community, memory, and resistance. In Back of House , a new cookbook from photographer-writer duo Ryan Stopera and Diana Albrecht, food isn’t simply something to plate and serve. The book features 12 recipes and the histories behind them, shared by home cooks whose lives stretch across borders and generations. It is part photography book, part oral history, part love letter to immigr

Minnesota Vikings legend Gene Washington has done more for the sport of football than you may know. Yes—he helped lead the Vikings to their first Super Bowl appearance during their 1969 season. And before that, he broke racial barriers playing for Michigan State University, under the leadership of head coach Duffy Daugherty. Washington, number 84, made Big Ten history, helping Michigan State win two national titles (1965 and 1966) before becoming a first-round draft pick for

On Friday afternoon, a crowd gathered outside the Henry Whipple Federal Building, the site of regional ICE offices, for a powerful rally hosted by the People’s Action Coalition Against Trump (PCAT). The event, organized in less than a day, served both as a counter-protest to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s surprise visit to Minnesota and as a launch for tomorrow’s “No Trump, No Troops” March and Rally at the State Capitol. Speakers from across Minnesota’s activi