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Opinion: What if healing started with Black joy instead of Black pain?

Rising medical debt, threats to safety-net hospitals, cuts to care for undocumentedadults all turn health care into a ...
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A ‘little light’ for Nahuatl: Twin Cities author’s book series explores Indigenous motherhood

Nahuatl book launch in St. Paul; Asian Phoenix Festival in south Minneapolis, the Qeej and Hmong Arts Festival at St. Paul’s ...
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Smoky air expected to cloud Minnesota summer due to climate change, experts say

Experts say Canadian wildfires caused by climate change will lead to air pollution across Minnesota this summer.
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U.S. Supreme Court is asked, again, to overturn ICWA as unconstitutional

A legal team that has repeatedly challenged the constitutionality of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act is again taking the ...
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Hmong photo exhibit at Walker Art Center reframes disability and identity

The ‘Many Ways of Being’ photo exhibit at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis features eight stories of Hmong people with disabilities.
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Judge rejects Minnesota effort to limit immigration enforcement near schools

A case by the Fridley Public Schools, Duluth Public Schools and Education Minnesota to limit immigration enforcement near ...
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Federal judge hears lawsuit over Minneapolis protections for teachers of color

A federal judge heard arguments on Wednesday over a DOJ lawsuit challenging a Minneapolis Public Schools teacher contract ...
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A silent crisis: Native mothers face the highest rates of maternal mortality in Minnesota

A recent report from the Minnesota Department of Health found that maternal mortality among Native American women is 12 times higher than the statewide average. And that most of those deaths were ...