Seven months after Floyd unrest, Lake Street business owners optimistic, anxious about rebuilding
With the desire to rebuild also comes concerns about gentrification.
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Year in Review: Five memorable Minneapolis photos from 2020
From 38th and Chicago to a nursing home on 56th and S. Lyndale, these scenes recall the historic nature of 2020 in our city.
‘Front Porch Portraits’: Connecting community during a pandemic
The 550 portraits of Minneapolitans and St. Paulites at the heart of “Front Porch Portraits” make for an enduring testament to these cloistered and muted times.
What’s next for the Kmart murals created in the wake of George Floyd’s killing?
The hope is to eventually exhibit the murals that were removed when the U.S. Postal Service took over the former site of Minneapolis’ Lake Street Kmart.
Equality and equity for ‘the asterisk nation’: a Q&A with Patrice Kunesh
Kunesh, who founded the organization Pehin Haha to advocated for Native communities, is delivering the keynote address at this week’s Center for Economic Inclusion’s virtual event, “2020 Powering Inclusion Summit, Marching For Racial Equity and Economic Justice.”
‘Minnesotans are good, kind people’: Jonathan Capehart and the 2020 Facing Race Awards celebrate anti-racism activists’ work
This year’s honorees — Valerie Castile, Leslie Redmond, Resmaa Menakem and Alex Miles — will be accepting their awards virtually.
Minnesota racial-justice groups with sudden influx of money face new scrutiny
“Now that money is flowing when it historically hasn’t, people want to know ‘Where’s the money going to?’” said Tracey Webb, founder of Black Benefactors.
‘This is the site of a movement that has transformed the entire world’: Juneteenth at ‘38th & George’
The day came with added significance and relevance, set as it was to a backdrop of worldwide protests; calls for police reform; challenges to financial, governmental, and cultural institutions to promote equality and equity; and Gov. Tim Walz pushing to declare it a state holiday.
Terrell Bryant went to 38th and Chicago to kill a cop and die. He found a community instead.
In the weeks since the Floyd killing, Bryant has become a fixture among a group of neighbors in Powderhorn.
‘We need to see corporations, foundations, and governments step up’: A Q&A with the Center for Economic Inclusion’s Tawanna A. Black
In 2018 Black founded the center, which works to combat economic and social racism, and whose clients and partners include Ramsey County, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and the Itasca Project. She wants to speed up the pace of change.
Exploring the rich history of 27th and Lake
When Lake Street was a narrow dirt road beyond the Minneapolis city limits, a scattering of homes and businesses sprung up around a small industrial firm, Minneapolis Harvester Works, established at the intersection of Lake and Hiawatha in 1882.
‘What Will It Take?’: Michelle Gross on police violence in Minneapolis
Michelle Gross has been a police accountability activist for 40 years, but she’s never seen the kind of intensity that exploded around the death of George Floyd.
Amid two crises, restaurants’ reopening day found many of them closed
Restaurant action was spotty, but a few diners and drinkers took advantage of the gorgeous summer weather to sit, socially distanced, on local patios.
‘He’s in custody!’ Surveying the scene Friday in south Minneapolis
The workweek started Monday with the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police outside of Cup Foods on 38th and Chicago and ended Friday with Lake Street in flames and an ongoing vigil outside Cup.
‘Angels work here’: Employees see visible appreciation outside Mount Olivet Home in Minneapolis
The sidewalk outside Mount Olivet is filled with chalked messages of support. Across the street, the marquee of the F45 fitness club reads on one side, “Distance Is Temporary Community Is Forever,” and “Thank You MT Olivet Staff You Are Heroes” on the other.
Northfield’s The Key: Building is closed but homeless youth still getting supplies, meals, support
“We’re trying to go out and say, ‘I see that you have a need, and I’m going to jump ahead and give you a solution to this need,’” said Emily Fulton-Foley, executive director.
From novels to noodles: Little Free Libraries becoming pantries during COVID-19 crisis
An online map is tracking Little Free Libraries whose owners are stocking their kiosks with food, toys, puzzles, household items, and masks.
‘It’s bad, it’s bad’: Minnesotans’ on-the-street talk about how the COVID-19 outbreak is impacting their lives
MinnPost talked to people on the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Monday — practicing social distancing of 6 feet apart all the while — about how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted their lives.
‘We build community through music’: Hopewell Music in north Minneapolis
“We wanted to start a place that was accessible to everybody, regardless of age, income, physical ability, or skill level,” said co-founder Ellie Fregni. “We wanted to eliminate the barriers to participating in a music program.”
‘Forget your religions, forget your differences’: Festival in Chaska celebrates poems in Hindi and Urdu
A group of about 100 poets, artists, and writers that make up Mehfil-ae-Minneapolis took to a stage in Chaska to “promote and advance the rich Indian and Pakistani traditions of kavi sammelans and mushairas (poems).
