Minnesota Voices is a TC Daily Planet feature that highlights individuals from many different places in our community. They are not just the usual voices who are quoted in news stories and appear on editorial pages (though those people may appear from time to time), but artists, business owners, community organizers, teachers, and more.

Minnesota Voices stories are, above all, interesting and personal. These stories are NOT dry, formulaic, or the same old, same old message that a lobbyist or advocate has given sixteen times already. Minnesota Voices focuses on who people are and what they do in the world, and on what motivates their lives. For information about writing a Minnesota Voices article, click here

MN VOICES | MayKao Hang talks about Hmong culture, clans and women

On the day MayKao Hang married, her father told her she was no longer part of their [the Yang] clan. She now belonged to the Hang clan—her husband’s clan.MORE »

MN VOICES | Idil Abdull: Somali mother and autism activist

Idil and her son. Photo by Sheila Regan.

Idil Abdull has been making headlines in the past few months for her role in bringing awareness to the issue of autism in the Somali community.MORE »

MN VOICES | InVocation singers put new spin on singing for your supper

Photo courtesy of InVocation

At their current pace, the InVocation singers are on track to have their most financially successful season. So, what will they do with all that money? Donate it to charity…what else?
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MINNESOTA VOICES | Rabbi Amy Eilberg

At the corner of religion and politics stands Amy Eilberg: Peace maker, teacher, spiritual leader, bridge builder.

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Humor overcomes cancer in mime’s play

When the brother traveled to Italy to bolster his sister after she was hospitalized with a stroke, it seemed inconceivable that they’d soon both be battling cancer.MORE »

MN VOICES | Marcie Rendon

photo credit: EQ-The Loft, 2008

Author-playwright-poet Marcie Rendon is fearlessly articulate.MORE »

MN VOICES | No opening night jitters for newest star in Carter family

Amani Ward as Ruby Bridges. Photo courtesy of Steppingstone Theatre

“On opening night, I thought I was going to be nervous, said Amani Ward. “But as soon as the lights came up, I wasn’t nervous anymore.”
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Hanging on by a keystroke

I sleep with Puter and Lator every night. Neither one of them initiate contact, I always do--but as a heterosexual male, that is a familiar role for me.MORE »
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