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Community groups in Minneapolis are calling out Target after reports that ICE used the Lake Street Target parking lot to stage an operation threatening to separate families. Unidos MN, Racial Justice Network, CAIR-MN, and BLM Minnesota are demanding Target ban ICE from using any of its properties for enforcement or surveillance.

The Collective Sum, created by the Minnesota Black Collective Foundation, is a multiday gathering designed to strengthen community, nurture Black leadership, and build collective strategy in a moment when support for racial equity initiatives is being rolled back across the country.

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