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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s get this out of the way right up front. You should go see Theatre Unbound’s production of Hamlet because you should see Kathryn Fumie in the title role. Not because it’s a woman playing Hamlet.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About half of Hennepin County’s 41 libraries have expanded hours to include Sundays year-round, including four Minneapolis libraries. The new hours come as a result of tax money left over from the ...

David Perez arrived from Mexico when he was two years old and, like many in his family, he’s been working off and on in the family businesses for years—first as a dishwasher and then as a cook at one ...

On Friday, June 2, in the newly renovated Minneapolis Sculpture Garden just outside of the Walker Art Center, a large crowd gathered to watch the demolition of ‘Scaffold,’ which included a wooden ...