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Updated: Property owned by Living Word Christian Center has gone into foreclosure, according to the Hennepin County Sheriff’s office. On July 28, four parcels of land owned by the Brooklyn Park ...
The heart of Sergio Choy’s job as a medical interpreter is to capture the spirit of the message between patient and medical provider. “You hear things like, ‘I’m feeling a little blue today,’ in ...
The faces stare up at you from the folded tabloid newspaper on sale at the your nearest convenience store: hundreds of photos of people at what might be the worst moment of their lives, available to ...
Fadumo Isse sat with three other Somali refugee women in the hallway of a homeless shelter in north Minneapolis with her eyes welling up with tears as she told her story of the first six months of her ...
Public art is popping up all over the Standish and Ericsson neighborhoods—murals on buildings and utility boxes ,sculpture at Lake Hiawatha Park and Oaks Station Place, colorful windows at courageous ...
Clinicians and therapists of color lack adequate resources and support in the mental health field. The situation is even worse for queer and trans people of color (QTPoC). Institutional barriers keep ...
Jason Sole realized he had become a statistic when he was convicted for a felony for the third time. Since then, after a life of selling drugs, gang activity and losing close friends, Sole decided to ...
Like many Dakota stories, this one begins in 1862, at the outset of the U.S.-Dakota War: Little Crow’s starving warriors took up arms against white settlers in the Minnesota River Valley in attempt to ...
All life is twined together. A Tree of Life. The celebrants of the MayDay Parade and Ceremony are fixing their ideas and concepts with tape, paper, and paste. The first Section Ecstatic Origins covers ...
In February 1951, within a climate of local anti-Semitism, Mount Sinai Hospital opened its doors at the corner of Chicago Avenue and 22nd Street in Minneapolis. The hospital — described in the AJW as ...
If you were to turn over a chair in a Minnesota public library, like at the Buckham Memorial Library in Faribault, you might find a tag noting the chair was manufactured by MINNCOR, a quasi ...
Q: What kind of music do young Somali-Americans listen to? Are there Somali or Somali-American pop stars?A: Like most immigrants before us, young Somali kids try to fit in rather than stand out. More ...