Community Sketchbook
‘From the Land of Enlightenment to the Land of 10,000 Lakes’: 45th annual IndiaFest celebrates Indian culture and spirituality in St. Paul
IndiaFest in words and photos.
Jim Walsh
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Politics & Policy
‘I trust Minnesota to fix this’: Walz exhorts rally on gun violence
“As someone who served 24 years in the military, I’m very familiar with these weapons. … I’ll tell you what I learned by that — and that is the damn things don’t belong on the streets of our country,” said Walz, flanked by a backdrop of Minnesota lawmakers and leaders.
Community Sketchbook
Scenes from the FLOW Northside Arts Crawl: ‘Community coming together through the common cause of art’
“Collective Joy” is the theme of this year’s FLOW Northside Arts Crawl, a three-day celebration of the arts in North Minneapolis that opened Thursday at various venues and continues Friday through Saturday.
Community Sketchbook
Black business women network, share challenges at Makers and Innovators event
“My experience has been amazing, but it is a struggle,” said Wendy Puckett. “You’ve got to find the money out there and be committed. … This event is great, because we can network and meet a lot of people in the same position.”
Community Sketchbook
‘A community of immigrants’: Loring Park hosts a timely Twin Cities World Refugee Day
MinnPost took in the celebration, in words and photos.
Community Sketchbook
‘What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?’: Why Frederick Douglass’ 1852 speech still resonates
“It’s an important speech,” said Augsburg University professor and historian William Green. “I think people should read it …. It provides a different view of what that moment in history meant to hundreds of thousands of Americans.”
Community Sketchbook
‘Because I love Somalia and because I love America’: Minnesota celebrates Somali Independence Day and Week
Saturday’s Somali Independence Day Festival is the largest of its kind in North America, and kicked off a week’s worth of events.
Arts & Culture
Minneapolis shows its Pride and affirmation in 2019 parade
MinnPost took in the 2019 Ashley Rukes GLBT Pride parade, in photos and interviews.
Community Sketchbook
‘A day of peace, love, and happiness’: Juneteenth in Minnesota commemorates end of slavery
The Bethune Park celebration on Saturday in Minneapolis will be just one of several Juneteenth events planned around the state.
Community Sketchbook
Somber, inspiring art exhibit depicts themes of Humanize My Hoodie movement
Andre Wright’s photos are augmented by quotes from the likes of Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, Michelle Alexander, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Meek Mill, and Ayanna Pressley. MinnPost took in the opening, in interviews and photos.
Community Sketchbook
#BombaSquad and beyond: How the Minnesota Twins came to lead the league with players born in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba, and more
The Twins’ 40-man roster includes 17 Spanish-speaking country-born players, which, combined with the team’s support staff, makes for one of the most Latino-heavy franchises in pro sports.
Community Sketchbook
U of M study offers deep-dive on evictions in north Minneapolis
The partial results of the project, “The Illusion Of Choice: Evictions and Profit in North Minneapolis,” were presented Thursday evening at the Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC).
Community Sketchbook
Inaugural Indigenous Women’s March shines a light on the plight of missing and murdered native women
Photos and voices from “the first march of many.”
Community Sketchbook
Scenes from Minneapolis’ 45th (and last?) MayDay parade
For 45 years, the MayDay parade has been a much-anticipated rite of spring, melding all things hippie-trippy with all things anarchist-punk-political, and injecting of fun, imagination and creativity into the winter-beaten citizens of Minneapolis.
Metro
There’s no good time to find out you have cancer — but the middle of a tight city council race seems like a particularly bad time
Jillia Pessenda had just turned 35 when she got the phone call from the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota.
