Minneapolis mayoral candidates talk arts and culture in a 75 minute forum. Participating are: Rep. Raymond Dehn, City Council Member Jacob Frey, Tom Hoch, Mayor Betsy Hodges, Nekima Levy-Pounds, and Aswar Rahman. Continue Reading →
Seven of the candidates running for Minneapolis Mayor appeared Thursday night to answer questions at a forum sponsored by the DFL Somali Caucus. Continue Reading →
Hundreds of voters filled the Calvary Church while hundreds more watched on line as six candidates for Minneapolis mayor debated the issues in the first candidate forum of the 2017 election season. Continue Reading →
Levy-Pounds made her announcement outside the Minneapolis 4th Police Precinct, the same place where she and many others had staged protests a year ago when Jamar Clark was gunned down by police. Continue Reading →
Ramsey County Attorney John Choi has taken the rare step of hiring a special prosecutor — Don Lewis— to help with deciding if police officers who killed Philando Castile at a traffic stop should be prosecuted. Continue Reading →
The line of people wanting to speak just kept growing. NAACP Minneapolis President Nekima Levy-Pounds had called a 10am news conference outside of Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton’s residence to urge him to take action in the fatal police shooting of Philando Castile. Continue Reading →
Diamond Reynolds, who recorded video in the car after Philando Castile was shot to death by a police officer, describes what happened and calls for justice in the shooting. Continue Reading →
Trust of the police and the justice system when it comes to people of color is low. So it may be surprising that the Minneapolis NAACP is against a bill in the Minnesota legislature that would pave the way for more cities to equip their police with “body cams” that could show conclusively if an officer took inappropriate action. Continue Reading →
NAACP Minneapolis President Nekima Levy-Pounds says County Attorney Mike Freeman needs to be replaced. She is fielding candidates to run against Freeman and did not rule herself out as a candidate. Continue Reading →
Activists say they will not tolerate police engaging in excessive force and say they are planning “nonviolent, peaceful protest.” The police must strike a balance between protecting free speech and public safety says the video. Continue Reading →
People who attended a rally calling for justice in the Minneapolis police killing of Jamar Clark tell us in song and prose why they are there. Continue Reading →
Several hundred people rallied Saturday to put pressure on Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to prosecute the Minneapolis police officers who shot and killed Jamar Clark. Continue Reading →
“The notion that we incarcerate people for profit, for corporate profit, I think is the antithesis of America.” — Minnesota Department of Corrections Commissioner Tom Roy. Continue Reading →
The caption next to one of the black lynching victims read “All I said was ‘I didn’t like the gumbo.’” Continue Reading →
“They have no idea about the number of people that we were able to stop from doing things that would have been harmful and destructive out of rage.” — Nekima Levy-Pounds NAACP Minneapolis President Continue Reading →
Black Lives Matter is threatening to protest at the nation’s largest shopping mall during one of the busiest shopping days of the year if its demands are not met, including the release of video surrounding the police shooting of Jamar Clark. Continue Reading →
Minneapolis has put up a prison like barricade around a police station in the wake of Black Lives Matters protests. “What are they trying to keep out?” ask the protesters who want the “disturbing” barricade removed and more transparent investigation of the police shooting of an unarmed black man. Continue Reading →
First official event takes on justice system abuses against women Continue Reading →
Long paroles mean more parolees get sent back to Minnesota prisons for non-violent offenses, swelling the prison population even more. Continue Reading →
Organizers and leaders of the Black Lives Matter group say they are ready for what could be a long fight to bring about the change they want. Continue Reading →
Could what happened in Ferguson, Missouri happen in Minnesota? That’s one of the questions an ACLU-MN panel discussed while examining the disparities between how whites and people of color are treated by police officers. Continue Reading →
Draon Armstrong understands that he violated the law by not paying a $1.75 fare for riding the train. But he doesn’t understand why a Metro Transit officer threw him to the ground while arresting him. Continue Reading →
It takes more than a law to eliminate structural racism. According to Minneapolis City Council Member Cam Gordon it also takes people speaking up and telling their stories. Listen to some of them. Continue Reading →
Nekima Levy-Pounds has made it her life’s work to stand up for equal rights and the well-being of all people, especially those who have been marginalized by society. Nekima is a civil rights attorney, an award-winning professor of law at the University of St. Thomas Law School, and a tireless advocate for social justice. Continue Reading →
As hundreds protested outside court house, eleven organizers of a December Black Lives Matter protest at the Mall of America appeared in court on various charges that could send them to jail for up to two years. They all pleaded not guilty. The next court date has been set for May 1. Continue Reading →
