Missing Murdered Black Women Girls Minnesota Day on the Hill 2026 brings impacted families to the State Capitol as Amarie Alowonle’s mother speaks out for justice.
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Posted inBusiness
Black-owned businesses join statewide shutdown protesting ICE
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.
Posted inArts + Culture
For Renee Nicole Good: A life extinguished too soon
A poem by Dr. Sharon M. Holder honoring Renee Nicole Good, reflecting grief, resistance, and the struggle for humanity in the aftermath of her killing.
Posted inLocal & State
Minneapolis civil rights leaders demand firing of BCA chief, reject national activists
A Renee Good shooting press conference demanded the firing of BCA Superintendent Drew Evans and immediate arrests in the case.
Posted inLocal & State
Foundation honors five MN leaders for advancing race equity
The Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation named five 2025 Facing Race Award honorees—Alexs Pate, Nate Smith, Kathy Sublett, Sai Thao, and Patricia Torres Ray—recognizing statewide leadership that challenges harmful narratives on race and builds inclusive solutions. Livestream Oct 16; details inside.
Posted inOpinion
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.
Posted inLocal & State
Thousands gather at Capitol to demand ‘something radically better’
Thousands of people gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol for the “HANDS OFF” rally to demand a government that prioritizes people over profit, care over punishment, and justice over silence, in response to rising police aggression and systemic neglect faced by Black, brown, and Indigenous communities.
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Communities unite for ‘A Day of Empathy’ in Minneapolis to uplift voices affected by injustice
A Day of Empathy, hosted by The Wrongfully Incarcerated and Over-Sentenced Families Council-MN, will be held on April 5, 2025, at North Commons Park in Minneapolis, to expose injustice in Minnesota’s criminal legal system and advocate for meaningful reform.
Posted inOpinion
Trump is no Cousin Ray Ray
Judge Juan M. Merchan has warned Donald Trump that violating a gag order could result in jail time, while Trump continues to criticize the judge and prosecutors in an attempt to avoid jail.
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vietnam War stance offers lessons for peace in the Middle East
Martin Luther King Jr.’s courage to speak out against the Vietnam War came with a cost.
Posted inNational, News
Justice Jackson on affirmative action ruling: ‘America has never been colorblind’
‘But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. ‘
Posted inOpinion
Will Minnesota repair broken justice for lifers?
Unless Minnesotans are prepared to accept a system of “justice for some,” the “lifer” review process must be reformed.
Posted inNational, News
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas moves to reverse the legacy of his predecessor, Thurgood Marshall
Clarence Thomas has made a consistent, concerted effort to undo the legal legacy of Supreme Court titan Thurgood Marshall.
Posted inOpinion
End Minnesota’s felony murder law
‘I am one of many men inside here who have gained maturity from experience.’
Posted inOpinion
Greater justice is coming: taking on abusive and deadly policing with new DOJ leadership
In his first month on the job, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland reversed a Trump-era policy that made it harder for the Justice Department to investigate police departments…
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Don’t despair about the Supreme Court
The courts have never been on the side of justice, only moving a few degrees one way or the other, unless pushed by the people.