Somali immigrants came to the US as refugees and asylees over the past 10 years. Children that arrived here in 1990s know Minnesota as their home. But if they get convicted of a crime – even a minor theft, they could lose their immigration status and get deportation ordered for Somalia.MORE »
Although it may take years for complaints against Minneapolis police officers to be resolved, and only a few result in any disciplinary action or victim compensation, city officials and civil rights activists encourage immigrants to file formal complaints.
“Interactions with police officers should be appropriate, and your rights respected,” said Michael Weinbeck, former chairman of the CivilianMORE »
At last weekend's National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR), Anthony Advincula sounded dismayed as he opened the forum “The Fighting Press: Ethnic Media Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow." MORE »
On May 4, Border Crossing, a play about immigration, finished an 8-day-run at the Ritz Theater. The play was produced and directed by the Off-Leash Area, a Minneapolis company known for adventurous movement-based productions. Reviews were complimentary, but the playwright, Marcie Rendon, refused to see it.MORE »
On Saturday, two busloads of immigrant farmers from the 3rd Minority and Immigrant Farming Conference arrived at Gardens of Eagan near Faribault. Gardens of Eagan founder, Martin Diffley, showed the group his tractors.
“You don’t need an expensive tractor,” he said to the group of 50 bundled farmers. Few of the immigrant farmers have tractors or any of sort machinery for that matter.MORE »
Amid calls for resistance to free market policies in Latin America, and dreams of a socialist revolution, Nekima Levy-Pounds described her research into the 13th amendment of the United States Constitution, which outlawed slavery.
“The 13th amendment took one form of slavery and replaced it with another – incarceration,” she told an audience of about 100 on March 1 at a conference in North MinnMORE »
Ted Lowell says fixing up the new home of the Acadia Café feels like playing until about 12:30 a.m. when he has to finish a project before the plumber comes the next morning. With the Acadia’s January 20th reopening just days away, Lowell can’t afford to lose any time.
Lowell is 41. He’s stocky and jocular, with a dark graying beard. Today, he’s installing new sinks for the restaurant.MORE »
In the Twin Cities and around the world, Muslims celebrated Eid ul-Adha this week, a prayer service commemorating the prophet Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son at the altar.
It’s a story that some Christians shy away from – the idea that God would ask Abraham to kill his son, as act of obedience, is troubling. Not so for Muslims. MORE »
So what does African-American stepping have to do with Appalachian clogging? Last year Ann Carter set out to prove that her clogging group, the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers, could groove with an African-American step team.
Carter is white, and she’s worked in urban schools for over five years.MORE »
All kinds of groups have come out against the war in Iraq in the past few years. City councils have passed resolutions, and church groups regularly hold vigils. But there's a church in St. Paul that's trying to get to the heart of the matter.MORE »
At last weekend's National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR), Anthony Advincula sounded dismayed as he opened the forum “The Fighting Press: Ethnic Media Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow."
