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Opinion: What if healing started with Black joy instead of Black pain?

Rising medical debt, threats to safety-net hospitals, cuts to care for undocumentedadults all turn health care into a zero-sum game. What if instead we saw health care ascommunity care?

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Comment on Proposed Fare Updates

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How Minneapolis punk duo The Muatas turned music into family and a second act

Things to do in Minneapolis this weekend: The Muatas, Lady Midnight, and others perform in electronic-rock showcase; Obi Original brings Afrobeats to a new concert series; and a community dance party takes over The Icehouse.

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Feds seeks to denaturalize Minnesota man

The federal government is seeking to revoke the citizenship of a Minnesota man who became a U.S. citizen nearly two decades ago.

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Minnesota woman detained by ICE in El Paso denied ovarian cyst surgery

Rep. Craig said Pedro Francisco is “pretty depressed” and in constant pain, and doesn’t believe that ICE will authorize surgery.

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What to know about the new Minnesota office created to fight fraud

The Minnesota Senate passed a bill creating the Office of Inspector General to fight fraud, which Gov. Tim Walz is expected to sign.

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Looking for Meaningful Work? Senior Care Is Hiring

Explore training, career paths, and employers hiring.

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Inside Augsburg University’s response to ICE arrests

After ICE detained multiple students, Augsburg University in Minneapolis mobilized to support its campus through fear, disruption and a prolonged crisis.

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Twin Cities author’s series introduces young readers to Nahuatl

Things to do in the Twin Cities this weekend: Nahuatl book launch in St. Paul; Asian Phoenix Festival in south Minneapolis, the Qeej and Hmong Arts Festival at St. Paul’s Union Depot, and art workshops at the Somali Museum.

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Minnesota lawmakers slowly advance anti-fraud bills

Minnesota lawmakers at the Legislature are considering bills to fight fraud in human services programs.

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Hmong disability stories highlighted in Minnesota photo exhibit

The ‘Many Ways of Being’ photo exhibit at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis features eight stories of Hmong people with disabilities.

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Native mothers face the highest rates of maternal mortality in Minnesota

A recent report from the Minnesota Department of Health found that maternal mortality among Native American women is 12 times higher than the statewide average. And that most of those deaths were preventable.

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Supreme Court is asked to overturn ICWA as unconstitutional

A legal team that has repeatedly challenged the constitutionality of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act is again taking the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Little Earth housing complex begins $50 million renovation

Little Earth in south Minneapolis, the country’s first Native-preference Section 8 housing project when founded in 1973, is undergoing a major remodel.

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Judge rejects Minnesota effort to limit ICE activity near schools

A case by the Fridley Public Schools, Duluth Public Schools and Education Minnesota to limit immigration enforcement near schools was rebuffed by a federal judge Wednesday.

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The Indignity of Moving Your Stuff in Trash Bags

The pending Minnesota Foster Youth Bill of Rights details a list of legal protections for young people in government care that includes the right to “appropriate travel bags.”

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Supreme Court seems poised to reject birthright citizenship limits

Justices heard the president’s appeal of a lower-court ruling from New Hampshire that struck down birthright citizenship restrictions.

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Halal grocery delivery startup grows in Minnesota

Bundle Halal founders Ahmed Ali and Badraddin Abdi are expanding their online grocery delivery service to make halal-certified meats and cooking staples more accessible across Minnesota.

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4 arraigned on trespassing charges over protest at Target Dinkytown store

Four protesters who staged a February sit-in at the Target store in Dinkytown during the height of Operation Metro Surge were arraigned on trespassing charges Friday.

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Native band Bizhiki brings electronic powwow music to The Cedar

Things to do around Minnesota: Borealis Dance tells immigrant stories in Minneapolis; St. Paul storyteller shares Hindu myths about nature; Karen play debuts in Austin. Next week: Bizhiki plays at The Cedar.

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Grieving Minneapolis family joins others to honor missing, murdered Indigenous relatives

A year after Evan Denny was killed alongside three other young people in south Minneapolis, his family gathers in remembrance.

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Smoky air expected to cloud Minnesota summer due to climate change, experts say

Experts say Canadian wildfires caused by climate change will lead to air pollution across Minnesota this summer.

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Brooklyn Park man pardoned of assault conviction that landed him in immigration detention

Brooklyn Park man Ricky Chandee was pardoned of an assault conviction that landed him in immigration detention during Operation Metro Surge.

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DOJ challenges MPS protections for teachers of color

A federal judge heard arguments on Wednesday over a DOJ lawsuit challenging a Minneapolis Public Schools teacher contract provision tied to race and layoffs.

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As Operation Metro Surge disrupted learning, students pushed back

A bill to restore “sensitive location” protections limiting immigration enforcement on school property has advanced in the Minnesota Senate and stalled in the House. Lawmakers vow to keep pushing for action.