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Minnesota Senate passes CROWN Act, headed to Walz’s desk
The Minnesota State Senate passed the Crown Act Thursday morning. The bill prohibits discrimination against a person for their hairstyle....
Elijah Todd-Walden
Jan 26, 20231 min read
“Boys in Blue” stirs up emotions in North Mpls
The Showtime Sports documentary “Boys in Blue” follows the Minneapolis North Polars Football team in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by...
Aaliyah Demry
Jan 25, 20232 min read
Task force takes results of research into missing and murdered Black women to the Capitol
The Minnesota state legislature established the Missing and Murdered African American Women Task Force (MMAAW) to examine and report on...
Chioma Uwagwu
Jan 23, 20233 min read
Twin Cities’ nonprofit “Love First” supports the whole Black child
Love First is dedicated to supporting young people. Strong-Allen says Love First was founded by her wife, Chauntyll Allen, after...
Jasmine McBride
Jan 20, 20232 min read
The Drought of Black Veterinarians in America
Dr. Abigail Maynard, one of the only Black veterinarians in Minnesota, works at Highland St. Paul Pet Clinic. Originally from Barbados,...
Ava Grace Pourier
Jan 20, 20232 min read
Minnesota nurses develop a disposable hijab for Muslim health care workers
The founders of Mawadda, respiratory therapists Yasmin Samatar and Firaoli Adam, are first-generation Black Muslim women with years of...
Chioma Uwagwu
Jan 19, 20232 min read
Black Minnesotans use MLK day to raise support for reparations
Rep. John Thompson speaks at a reparations lunch at the Indigenous Cultural Center on MLK, Jr. Day (Elijah Todd-Walden/BLCK Press)...
Elijah Todd-Walden
Jan 16, 20232 min read
“Until We Are All Free” gives the formerly incarcerated a seat at the table
The non-profit Until We Are All Free creates space for the incarcerated to find community, opportunities, and their voice. Founder Kevin...
Jasmine McBride
Jan 15, 20233 min read
Minneapolis’s new Community Commission on Police Oversight prompts questions, criticism
Minneapolis’s new Community Commission on Police Oversight will appoint civilians to review investigations of alleged police misconduct...
Jasmine McBride
Jan 12, 20232 min read
Mapping Prejudice works to end racial covenants
Mapping Prejudice is working to put an end to racial covenants on Twin Cities properties, and educate homeowners in the process.
Faaya Adem
Nov 25, 20222 min read
CAIR-MN threatened with firebomb attack
CAIR-MN Executive Director Jaylani Hussein (center) at a recent press conference. CAIR-MN reports it has received a firebomb threat....
Marianne Combs
Nov 3, 20221 min read
Ellison’s Keynote Disrupted by Line 3 Protestors
Dozens of water protectors with the movement to stop Line 3 interrupted the installation of Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s new dean...
Nadia Shaarawi
May 7, 20222 min read
SPPD apologizes for abandoning endangered family
EXCLUSIVE: An African American mother was left to fend for herself after calling the Saint Paul Police to help bring her four children to...
Georgia Fort
May 7, 20222 min read
Suppressed Voices in Minnesota’s Youth Homelessness Advocacy
What is equity without the voices of those being served? Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, board members, and other stakeholders...
Jasmine McBride
Oct 27, 20213 min read
“Planet or Profit?” Indigenous Activists Fight at Nation’s Capitol
A week of civil disobedience by water protectors from around the country culminated in numerous arrests in front of the U.S. Capitol this...
Jasmine McBride
Oct 16, 20211 min read
The Cycle of Minnesota Homelessness
Each summer Tent encampments fill unoccupied areas in the Twin Cities. Each winter we see the people in those encampments endure...
Georgia Fort
Sep 23, 20214 min read
How America Chooses the Missing Women It Searches For
Anyone with a heart would hope a missing person would be found and brought back to their loved ones. Even the thought of a loved one...
Jasmine McBride
Sep 20, 20214 min read
Less Lethal Weapons: Violence to Silence Justice
Less-lethal weapons have been used for crowd control by the police for decades, but only recently has medical documentation of injury...
Jasmine McBride
Apr 24, 20219 min read
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