Hundreds of Minnesota businesses are participating in a statewide general strike to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. Black-owned and Black-led businesses, including Griot Arts and Rise & Remember, are closing their doors to demonstrate economic resistance, solidarity, and collective power.
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‘Sean Combs: The Reckoning’ ignites national debate over hip hop legacy, culture
Netflix’s Sean Combs: The Reckoning has reignited national debate about celebrity power, accountability, and hip hop’s cultural legacy, drawing both intense praise and sharp backlash.
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Courtroom protesters demand ‘No More Stolen Lives’
Families, activists expose gaps in domestic violence protections Allison Lussier’s life ended in a North Loop apartment in February 2024, but questions surrounding her death continue to reverberate through Minneapolis. Family members and Indigenous activists say the system failed Lussier, a 29-year-old woman with a history of domestic abuse, and are calling for accountability as […]
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I posted an ICE tip line in anger. I’ll regret it forever.
Dear Chicago, You were my second home for nearly 15 years. I still love you deeply. And today, watching ICE raids tear through your neighborhoods, I feel nothing but heartbreak and shame. I’m writing to apologize for something I did in 2016, right after Trump’s first election win. In anger over what I saw in […]
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Minnesotans show up en masse to declare “No Kings”
Thousands gathered outside U.S. Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis on Saturday for the “No Kings” protest, where demonstrators voiced opposition to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, the deployment of federal troops in U.S. cities, and the use of the justice system against political opponents. The crowd filled the Commons area near 425 Portland Ave., stretching […]
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Family Seeks Justice After Eagan Man Dies From Untreated Stroke in Custody
The family of Kingsley Fifi Bimpong is suing Eagan, Dakota County, and multiple officers, alleging they ignored clear signs of a stroke while he was in custody. Attorneys say video shows hours of distress before EMS was called. Bimpong was declared brain dead on November 19, 2024.
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MPD under fire for promoting officer who killed Amir Locke
Amir Locke’s family and local activists are condemning MPD’s decision to name Sgt. Mark Hanneman, the officer who killed Locke in a 2022 raid, as a training instructor. The appointment has sparked citywide backlash and renewed calls for reform.
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What Ida B. Wells would say about Trump and Epstein
Ida B. Wells didn’t whisper. She published. If she were here today, she’d demand the Epstein files be unsealed and the full truth brought into the light. Because there is no justice without truth—and no healing without reckoning.
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What Sistas Want From Black Men
Black women are looking for emotional intelligence, consistency, effort, protection, accountability, vulnerability, love, knowledge of their love language, the ability to make them laugh, and for men to be their word.