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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
This week: Afro Deli dispute, Northside air quality and more reactions to the Orlando massacre. Continue Reading
This week: the state of black education, retail janitors reach landmark agreement with Best Buy and emerging artist Princeton Brown. Continue Reading
“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
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
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
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
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
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.
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“Everybody gets sick, but not everyone can afford to get sick.” Continue Reading