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The night of the grand jury decision in the 2014 Mike Brown shooting, protesters filled the streets. While watching the news, Raeisha Williams kept thinking to herself, “I wish I was out there with them.” Continue Reading
The vibe in Broadway Pizza always puts me at ease. It’s just full of real people. The waitresses actually ask questions and joke without sounding like they are reading from a script. They remind me of my mom back when she was slinging plates. The bartenders talk to folks at the bar and laugh with them. Broadway Pizza’s location in the heart of North Minneapolis was the perfect place to meet a candidate running to represent Ward 5 on the Northside: Jeremiah Ellison. Continue Reading
The morning after the 2016 presidential elections, Samantha Pree-Stinson, a resident of Northeast Minneapolis was confronted by a truck of all male passengers spewing racial slurs directly at her. Continue Reading
Now, 16 years after Sharon Sayles-Belton left office, four candidates of color are running for mayor: two in Minneapolis and two in St. Paul. Continue Reading
The air froze again to 10 degrees on Feb. 8, the first time I met Erica Mauter, a DFL candidate running for the Ward 11 seat on the Minneapolis City Council. Continue Reading
“Right now, we are being governed from a deficit perspective. [People say] ‘we need to be fixed, there are things that are wrong, and things are just desolate and bad.’ Whereas governing from an asset or strength-based perspective takes [our] gems and builds them up.” Continue Reading
For the past few months, Jillia Pessenda has talked to upwards of 2,000 people all over the ward – often over coffee. Continue Reading
More than 2,000 people from 75 Twin Cities local and grassroots organizations took to the streets as part of the Jan. 20 inauguration day protests. Continue Reading
We focused on these seven candidates – Jillia Pessenda, Samantha Pree-Stinson, Phillipe Cunningham, Raeisha Williams, Jeremiah Ellison, Andrea Jenkins and Erica Mauter – because they bring in terms of race, gender identity and sexual orientation, an unprecedented level of diversity to the 2017 elections. Continue Reading
At the Twin Cities Daily Planet, we spent 2016 trying to shift that balance, by bringing the power of media into the hands of our communities and challenging the dominant narratives told about us. Continue Reading