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  • Passe - Minneapolis Snow

Sometimes it S n o w s in A p r i l

"The snow f e l l like a miffed god took bites of cumulus clouds—spat them down / from  heaven,  o n t o my Midwest."

Curtis Crisler2022-04-15T16:49:26-04:00April 1, 2022|
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  • Yes 4 Minneapolis - Aaron Lavinsky, Star Tribune

What’s Next for Public Safety in Minneapolis?

Inside the push to transform the department that killed George Floyd.

Eamon Whalen2021-11-18T13:24:18-05:00October 22, 2021|
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  • Pride Flag Door

A History of the Pride Flag in My Doorway

Notes on living and moving as an out queer person in the Rust Belt.

Harmony Cox2022-04-15T16:47:43-04:00June 15, 2021|
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  • Reed - George Floyd Memorial at 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis, MN.

Solidarity, Trauma, and a Moment of Relief in Minneapolis

Snapshots from the streets of Minnesota, where the fight is far from over.

Andrea Ellen Reed2021-05-14T10:14:56-04:00April 23, 2021|
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  • Upper Harbor Terminal - Friends of the Mississippi River

Will Minneapolis’s Upper Harbor Terminal Project Be Good for Its Neighbors?

The city wants to develop public land in a majority-Black neighborhood. What would equitable development look like?

Eamon Whalen2020-11-03T14:23:57-05:00October 9, 2020|
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  • Love + Struggle - No Cop Academy 2019

#NoCopAcademy and the Movement to Defund the Police

How youth organizers in Chicago laid the groundwork for contemporary calls to defund the police.

Kiran Misra2020-09-11T13:34:40-04:00July 31, 2020|
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  • Musinguzi_Minneapolis

What Happened — and is Happening — in Minneapolis

Since George Floyd was killed by the Minneapolis Police Department, two months ago, “[The city] has had to confront its ugliness.”

Vanessa Taylor2020-08-27T13:48:59-04:00July 24, 2020|
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  • David Smith - 1

Remembering David Cornelius Smith

Nearly ten years before the killing of George Floyd, officers from the Minneapolis Police Department suffocated another Black man to death.

Terrion L. Williamson2020-08-27T13:50:56-04:00June 11, 2020|
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  • Pittsburgh - Smallwood

Protest and Power

Scenes from a moment of reckoning.

Belt Magazine2020-09-10T11:09:30-04:00June 5, 2020|
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  • Blue - George Floyd Protest

Coming Into a Black Woman’s Anger

On Audre Lorde and Minnesota Nice.

Vanessa Taylor2020-08-27T13:51:20-04:00June 4, 2020|
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  • Bouie - End Police Brutality

Racism, Rebellion, and Police Violence in the Midwest

Stories on the long history of racism and police violence in the Midwest—and what to do about it.

Ryan Schnurr2021-08-19T10:04:05-04:00May 29, 2020|
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