In a tweet shared this April, President Trump said he is “giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only.” The tweet came mere hours after both the Department of ...

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 ...

This piece is part of Twin Cities Daily Planet’s series covering the 2018 elections season. Every year we’re moving towards a possibility of a more diverse legislature. And with it, we hope comes ...

The heart of Sergio Choy’s job as a medical interpreter is to capture the spirit of the message between patient and medical provider. “You hear things like, ‘I’m feeling a little blue today,’ in ...

Speaking through Janie Crawford, the heroine in Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Zora Neale Hurston explained, “De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see.” America was built off ...

Across the U.S., conservative and liberal politicians alike continue to call for more cops while willfully ignoring the root causes of crime. Any city that doesn’t provide all of its residents with ...

However, not everyone in the community is on board and for some, police abolition is too idealistic. Jamael, a Black Minneapolis resident, agreed to go on record under the condition that his last name ...

Activists have been fighting against the “Hennepin Energy Recovery Center” (HERC) and other garbage incinerators for decades. But in no other U.S. state, except perhaps Florida, does the garbage ...

Samuel Callahan is a single father raising his 14-year-old daughter, the youngest of his seven children. The father-daughter pair share a one-bedroom apartment in North Minneapolis. It’s cramped ...

Rosy Simas of Rosy Simas Danse is Haudenosaunee, Seneca, Heron Clan. She brings a Native feminist lens to the contemporary dance world with her body of work, the latest of which is “Weave,” a ...

For the people Just as the decision to begin the journey of establishing a credit union in North Minneapolis began through collective response and community-led decision making, ABEP continues to ...