Play6min 13secExpert: University of Minnesota agreement with protesters is ‘quite remarkable’May 7, 2024 2:25 PMBy Cathy Wurzer and Megan BurksUniversity of Minnesota administrators are expected to begin disclosing the school’s investments in publicly-traded companies based in or doing business with Israel on Tuesday. It’s part of an agreement they reached last week with pro-Palestinian student protesters.
Lee Hawkins: Tips and advice from his search through family historyMay 7, 2024 4:00 AMBy Lee HawkinsVeteran reporter Lee Hawkins, Jr., and host of a new APM Studios podcast “What Happened in Alabama?” shares insights into exploring his family history as part of his podcast and upcoming book, “Nobody’s Slave.”
Arrests of protesters exceed 2,300 as police clear more U.S. campus encampmentsMay 3, 2024 11:50 AMBy The Associated PressWhile University of Minnesota officials reached an agreement with protesters not to disrupt commencements, weeks of demonstrations and police confrontations at college campuses nationwide have resulted in more than 2,300 arrests.
Black lawmakers reintroduce federal CROWN Act legislation to ban hair discriminationMay 3, 2024 6:48 AMBy Jonathan Franklin The bill which was previously passed in the House in 2019 and 2022 but blocked in the Senate, aims to end race-based hair discrimination in schools and workplaces.
Nearly $2 million budget gap forces closure of men’s shelter in MoorheadMay 3, 2024 4:00 AMBy Dan GundersonThe Dorothy Day House, a 15-bed shelter for men in Moorhead, is seeking donations to help reopen the shelter.
Activists in Duluth ramp up pro-Palestinian demonstrations, set up encampmentMay 2, 2024 12:05 PMBy Dan KrakerA group calling itself the Duluth Palestine Solidarity Camp set up a tent encampment Wednesday night in Duluth’s Leif Erikson Park. Protesters are calling on the city and state to divest from Israel in the wake of its war in Gaza.
Duluth group receives ‘transformational’ grant to build Black community hubMay 1, 2024 5:56 PMBy Dan KrakerA coalition of Duluth nonprofits is celebrating a $500,000 grant to help build a hub for the Black community in the city’s Central Hillside neighborhood.
Play9min 28secClash over proposed Lino Lakes development with mosque leads to suggested development moratorium April 30, 2024 12:55 PMBy Emily Bright and CJ YoungerThe proposal for the Madinah Lakes development includes more than 400 housing units, a grocery store, a daycare and a mosque.
Play10min 14secStudent journalists from two Twin Cities universities share the latest on divestment protestsApril 29, 2024 1:13 PMBy Emily Bright and Ellen FinnStudent journalists from Hamline University in St. Paul and the University of Minnesota Twin Cities talked with MPR News host Emily Bright about the protests on their campuses.
Play6min 36secWhat a 1968 Columbia University protester makes of today’s pro-Palestinian encampmentApril 29, 2024 12:41 PMBy Mansee Khurana A college professor who protested the Vietnam War in 1968 compares her experiences with the pro-Palestinian protests currently happening at Columbia University.