Bryant Neighborhood News and Events
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Bryant is a small neighborhood in South Minneapolis that has easy access to downtown via I-35 and striped bike lanes along Park and Portland Avenues and boasts modestly-priced home in a variety of styles. Phelps Park and Recreation Center provide residents of all ages with recreational opportunities as does nearby Powderhorn Park. 38th Street offers neighborhood retail opportunities and residents are working to continually enhance this commercial corridor by offering façade improvement grants, participating in city-led planning and revitalization efforts.
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Cement encased Occupy home defenders risk life and limb
How far would you go to protect a homeowner from being evicted?
Occupy Homes activists defending Alejandra and David Cruz’s foreclosed home in South Minneapolis have built an elaborate if not provocative home defense system to stop police from evicting the Latino family. They say they won’t leave until either PNC Mortgage or Freddie Mac renegotiates the mortgage.MORE »
Occupy wins home in North Minneapolis, defends Latino home in South
“My parents had to work so hard for this house,” teary-eyed Alejandra Cruz told an Occupy Homes rally this week. “It’s unjust for the banks to take away our dream. My parents brought us here really young, and we’ve learned how to fight against injustice ever since we came to this country. It’s been a struggle for us every single day since we got here.”MORE »
Seven neighborhood organizations steer toward a bright future
Over the past year, seven neighborhood organizations in South Minneapolis have worked together to explore strategic partnership that will improve operating efficiencies and ensure long-term sustainability of the sector while improving our capacity to engage and build grassroots leadership.MORE »
MLK DAY: What it is and what you can do locally
Local college fair highlights Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Imagine growing up African-American in the pretty much white-bread culture of Minnesota in the 1970s and 1980s, as Kerwin Bell did, and maybe thinking this was all there was to being black in America, even though your parents told you different.MORE »
