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Jens Pinther

Jens Pinther

Pride festivals may be more corporate, but they’re also more exploitative

By Jens Pinther | July 7, 2016

When queer communities complain about the “corporatizing of Pride,” they often mean they don’t want to see businesses like Target and Car2Go having large displays at the festival and floats in the parade, when department stores and car sharing have nothing to do with queer pride or resilience within heteronormative patriarchy. Continue Reading

Best of Neighborhood News 6/23/16: Dispute could close Cedar-Riverside mainstay

By Jens Pinther | June 23, 2016

This week: Afro Deli dispute, Northside air quality and more reactions to the Orlando massacre. Continue Reading

Best of Neighborhood News 6/16/16: America’s check for black education keeps bouncing

By Jens Pinther | June 15, 2016

This week: the state of black education, retail janitors reach landmark agreement with Best Buy and emerging artist Princeton Brown. Continue Reading

REAL ID

REAL ID poses deeper problems for the undocumented

By Jens Pinther | June 13, 2016

“So many human rights are attached to this piece of plastic,” Iris Altamirano said of something many people take for granted: driver’s licenses. “Everyone should have access to it.” Continue Reading

Best of Neighborhood News 6/9/16: Housing for minimum wage workers

By Jens Pinther | June 9, 2016

This week: housing crisis for minimum wage workers, Allina nurses call a strike, remembering Muhammad Ali and discriminatory mud-slinging in the Minnesota Legislature’s District 57A race. Continue Reading

Care about minimum wage, fair housing, immigration? Go caucus.

By Cristeta Boarini, Jens Pinther and Kayla Steinberg | February 29, 2016

This Tuesday, March 1, is Super Tuesday. That means that Minnesota, along with 11 other states and American Samoa, will hold presidential primaries or caucuses. However, the number of delegates Bernie, Hillary, Trump, Rubio, or whoever else, receive is not the only thing that will be decided on Tuesday. Continue Reading

Black Twitter

Best of Neighborhood News 2/17: Black Twitter moves culture, conversation

By Jens Pinther | February 17, 2016

This week we look at the cultural impact of Black Twitter, Afro-centric curriculum at a Minneapolis charter school, and SPNN’s new home. Continue Reading

MEI

LGBT friendliness: How a perfect score harms more than it helps

By Jens Pinther | February 10, 2016

Among the ways we choose to evaluate where we live, few reports are more respected than that of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI), an annual, comprehensive examination of cities’ laws, policies and services with regard to LGBT people and LGBT issues. Continue Reading

Best of Neighborhood News 2/10: Workers of color to testify on union biases

By Jens Pinther | February 10, 2016

This week: workers of color to testify on union biases, street preachers harassing “sodomites” in downtown Minneapolis and arguing for open meetings on heated topics in St. Cloud.
Continue Reading

Best of Neighborhood News 2/3: Mpls studies need for paid sick leave law

By Jens Pinther | February 3, 2016

“Everybody gets sick, but not everyone can afford to get sick.” Continue Reading

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Arts

  • Dance as deep listening: “Weave” by Rosy Simas Danse comes to the Ordway

    Rosy Simas of Rosy Simas Danse is Haudenosaunee, Seneca, Heron Clan. She brings a Native feminist lens to the contemporary dance world with her body of work, the latest of which is “Weave,” a collaborative dance project. “Weave” will make its debut on Jan. 12 at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts, a co-commissioner in […]

  • Ritual and revelation: Black Ensemble Players reimagine Shakespeare

      “It was kind of a whimsical artistic impulse,” recalled Antonio Duke, as he reminisced on this past spring when Ashawnti Sakina Ford drove him home each night after their rehearsals for a production of “Imaginary Invalid,” a play by 17th-century French actor and playwright, Molière. Duke mentioned that he would love to play Puck, […]

Food and restaurants

  • Project sweetie pie north minneapolis
    North Minneapolis takes back food systems, land through urban agriculture

    Transforming the community and its residents is the main goal of Northside food system organizers, who are using food as a tool to aid in that transformation.

  • Ha Tien Market
    Ha Tien Market still finds home along the Green Line, despite problems

    On a rainy, cool day Ha Tien is a warm and welcoming site.

Education

  • St. Paul’s school resource officer policies still leave district room for improvement

    On May 25, 2016, St. Paul School Resource Officer Bill Kraus forcibly arrested then 19-year-old Darion Bell outside of St. Paul Central High School. Bell, a Black youth who had recently transferred out of Central to the High School for Recording Arts, was on Central’s campus to visit one of his former teachers. Kraus used […]

  • Hiawatha Collegiate High School goes beyond ‘beating the odds’ for students of color

    Equity is one part of a broader vision for the Hiawatha network of schools.

Community Voices

  • [COMMUNITY VOICES] Non-criminal ‘technical violations’ are increasing Minnesota’s prison population

    When it comes to incarceration rates, Minnesota stands out as one of the few states who is experiencing an increase in their prison population despite prison overcrowding and crime at a 50-year low. While there are multiple factors for this, a significant part of this increase is due to the incarceration of formerly released individuals […]

  • Community Voices: [PHOTOS] Minneapolis comes out strong for “Families Belong Together” nationwide march

      On the afternoon of Saturday, June 30, Minneapolis was one of 600 cities and towns across the country to come alive with thousands of people vigorously and collectively denouncing the U.S. government’s federal immigration policies as part of the Families Belong Together nationwide march. Photographer Nancy Musinguzi’s recent photos captured the over 7,000 people […]

In Case You Missed It

IGGERS DIGEST | Katar River: flavors and aromas of Ethiopia

It's easy to miss the Katar River restaurant, hidden away in a little industrial strip behind the Lake & Hiawatha shopping center in south Minneapolis. And even if you saw the big sign outside, you probably wouldn't know that this is specifically an Ethiopian restaurant, and a very good one.

Lynnell Mickelsen: Why all the conspiracy theories and pearl-clutching in this year’s school board race?

This has been the hottest school board race I’ve seen in 25 years of living in Minneapolis, with lots of conspiracy theories and pearl-clutching. Many of my neighbors and friends see the furious posts on Facebook, with all the hysterical warnings about the imminent destruction of public education as we know it, and are honestly confused.

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