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The photos you won’t see are the ones that have not been taken, of entire families huddled together in one small tent, of people sitting in chairs holding their heads in their hands and staring at the ground in desperation, of little kids with haunted and lost eyes, of judgmental drivers honking.
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Located on the fourth floor of the Thor Companies building on the corner of Penn and Plymouth, the museum is a long-time coming first of its kind in Minnesota.
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On Aug. 7, 1988, activists and advocates championed the rights of Kowalski, a high school teacher and coach who’d suffered a debilitating brain injury but was denied basic spousal rights along with her longtime partner, Karen Thompson.
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Mino Oski Ain Dah Yung, a partnership between the Ain Dah Yung Center and Project For Pride In Living, will provide 42 units of permanent housing.
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Monday’s rally outside the Capitol took place at the same time 13 protesters were being arrested inside. Another rally is planned for May 21.
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“I would get emails from people who said, ‘I found a place, but we can’t move in for two weeks. … We have to sleep in our car for two weeks.’ Like, they’re almost there,” said Mick Sterling, who came up with the temporary-house idea.
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Wilhelmina Holder left war-torn Liberia to become a University of Minnesota scholar, a mother to four U graduates, and an advocate for women, girls, immigrants, and refugees. For her next act, she wants to go back to Africa to help the country that assassinated her father.
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Led by teenagers, a 20,000-strong gun control coalition gathered at the state Capitol Saturday for the Minnesota version of March for Our Lives.
Shapiro belongs to the Minneapolis chapter of the pro-women filmmakers organization Film Fatales, and sees “Time for Ilhan” as part of a larger movement and moment.
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The Minneapolis-based nonprofit CAPI USA serves “more than 4,000 low-income immigrants, refugees and people of color living primarily in Hennepin County.”
