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 ...

Snuggled in the Kenwood neighborhood near Lake of the Isles, Birchbark Books and Native Arts serves as a vital hub for Native literature and art. Owner and renowned author Louise Erdrich opened the ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Nov. 2, a multiracial group of people gathered at Plaza Centenario on the corner of 12th Avenue and Lake Street in Minneapolis. Organized by the Immigrant Movement for Justice, Por Raza and Morena ...

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 ...

When the Guerrilla Girls, the masked troupe of activist/feminist artists, visited the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) during their Twin Cities Takeover this year, sophomore Bethany ...

Yarn bombing, guerilla knitting, and graffiti knitting are described as “warm and fuzzy” graffiti art. The concept behind yarn bombing is to soften and beautify the harsh and sometimes ugly urban ...

Minneapolis poet Adina Burke, who identifies as a bisexual woman with Cerebral Palsy, has heard it all when it comes to how folks react to her identities. Some of the worst responses have come from ...

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 ...

Two close calls marked the third day of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) on Wednesday. The nearly 2,000 Lutherans, media and activists assembled at the ...

The Twin Ports area of Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., held its 23rd annual LGBT Pride event Labor Day weekend, drawing a record 12,000 people. Anti-gay protesters shouted at parade participants ...