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Emma Watts, executive director of the Minnesota LGBTQIA2S+ Council, speaking at the state Capitol for Transgender Day of Remembrance in 2024. Courtest of Angelica Gentile.

State Council to survey LGBTQ+ community to better understand queer Minnesotans

by Alexandra DeYoe
Published April 10, 2025

A state agency advocating for the queer community is surveying alongside local LGBTQ+ organizations to better understand queer people across the state. Created in 2023, the 16-member Council on LGBTQIA2S+...

Overdose deaths declined by about 24% nationally in 2024, a drop nearly mirrored by Minnesota.

Free naloxone could be helping the overdose deaths decline in Minnesota, nationally

by Grace Aigner
Published April 10, 2025

As overdose deaths in Minnesota decline, Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota install free emergency naloxone.Overdose deaths dropped by about 24% in the U.S. in 2024, a decline nearly mirrored...

Minneapolis officials and non-profit groups are hosting events to celebrate Black Maternal Health Awareness Week.

Health advocates bring awareness to Black maternal health disparities

by Maya Bell
Published April 9, 2025

Created in 2021 by Black Mamas Matter, Black Maternal Health Week addresses systemic health issues facing Black mothers.Over 80% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable, but Black women are three...

The badge of ICE Field Office, in Hawthorne, California, U.S., March 1, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

ICE and your rights — immigration law professor breaks down ICE on campus

by Grace Aigner
Published April 7, 2025

As President Donald Trump’s administration has opened up college campuses for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, questions about how international students and students who recently immigrated to the...

The Jacksons were the first Black family to move into the Prospect Park neighborhood in 1908.

Prospect Park’s Jackson family inspires generations of neighbors

by Grace Aigner
Published April 2, 2025

Amy and Madison Woods Jackson built their home in Minneapolis’ Prospect Park neighborhood in 1908 with their three daughters. In return, the neighborhood met the family with racist protests and discrimination,...

M Health Fairview, Neighborhood Health Source and the Minneapolis Health Department are among the providers affected.

City, health administrators warn about COVID-19 vaccination funding cut

by Katrina Bailey
Published April 2, 2025

The Trump administration announced around $11 billion in cuts to COVID-19 related grants nationwide on March 25. The Minnesota Department of Health said it is losing over $200 million in federal grant...

The line started running on March 22, offering free rides its first week.

Metro Gold Line buses now running

by Katrina Bailey
Published March 31, 2025

The Metro Gold Line, a 10-mile bus line connecting St. Paul, Maplewood, Landfall, Oakdale and Woodbury, started running on March 22. As Minnesota's first rapid transit bus line that operates primarily...

Trump’s attempts to crush education will hurt everyone.

Teachers, students share concerns about Department of Education closure

by Alexandra DeYoe
Published March 31, 2025

President Donald Trump’s administration recently announced an executive order closing the federal Department of Education to “provide children and their families an opportunity to escape a system that...

Applications are open for pop-up art projects, and festival and cultural spaces until April 15. Courtesy of Jamal Adam.

Minneapolis’ grants for art, artists, cultural centers return for second year

by Grace Aigner
Published March 30, 2025

Minneapolis’ Cultural Districts Arts Fund returns for its second year to award artists and cultural centers grant money to begin and grow their work.Ben Johnson, the director of Minneapolis’ Arts...

Cedar-Riverside businesses call for return of safety program in the neighborhood.

Cedar-Riverside residents call for city to renew violence interrupter contract

by Maya Bell
Published March 28, 2025

Cedar-Riverside residents and business owners are raising the alarm after the city announced it would not renew the contract for violence interrupters in the neighborhood.Metro Youth Diversion, a violence...

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