Featured in Category Don’t Let the Moment Pass, says civil rights leader Josie Johnson By Bill Sorem | June 17, 2019 Josie Johnson has a new memoir “Hope in the Struggle.” She’s urging people to continue the struggle for justice and freedom.
Arts North Minneapolis Tells its Own Story through Annual Arts Crawl By Text By Cirien Saadeh, Video By Bill Sorem | August 2, 2015 North Minneapolis community members are changing the perception of their often maligned neighborhood by telling their their own stories at FLOW Northside Arts Crawl.
Minnesota Structural Racism At Root Of Offensive Remark About North Minneapolis Says Rep. Moran By Michael McIntee | April 22, 2015 Rep. Rena Moran turns an offensive remark from Rep. Jim Newberger about prison and North Minneapolis into a beautiful lesson about structural racism.
Minnesota “Convenient” Prison To North Minneapolis Connection Draws Boos For Rep. Newberger By Michael McIntee | April 21, 2015 “Boy, wouldn’t that be convenient, to have that rail line going from the prison to North Minneapolis.” – Rep. Jim Newberger
Criminal Justice Fighting for the Little Guy…An UpTake Leadership Profile: Sarah Walker By Jacob Wheeler | April 25, 2013 The Second Chance Coalition, co-founded by Sarah Walker, is blazing a trail for Minnesotans with criminal records who are reentering society and seeking jobs, housing and the right to vote.
Energy Disaster Turned Into Opportunity in North Minneapolis By Allison Herrera | September 20, 2012 Minneapolis’ Green Homes North project aims to build 100 ecological homes in North Minneapolis that are based on green standards and do it with local minority and women contractors and locally-sourced green products.
Economy/Jobs Occupy-backed Homeowner Wins Renegotiated Mortgage By Jacob Wheeler | July 27, 2012 Ruby Brown, a North Minneapolis hairdresser and pillar of her church community, won a renegotiated mortgage from Bank of America this week — just days before her home was to be auctioned off in a sheriff’s sale.
Minnesota From Cookbooks to Tornado Memoir: Northside Survivor Tells All in “Twisted” By Jacob Wheeler | June 6, 2012 A year after the North Minneapolis tornado that caused $150,000 worth of damage to Marie and Michael Porter’s home, Marie found a unique way to deal with the trauma and tell her story. She published a book called Twisted: A Minneapolis Tornado Memoir.
Economy/Jobs Hope, Despair Mark Minneapolis Tornado Anniversary By Michael McIntee | May 23, 2012 The UpTake’s team coverage of the anniversary has captured both the hope that city and community leaders are selling as well as the quiet despair of those who bear the emotional and economic scars of twin storms that randomly blew into theirs lives.
Media What Brought MPR’s Live Coverage to North Minneapolis By Jacob Wheeler | May 23, 2012 Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) News set up shop and broadcast live at the University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (U-ROC) Tuesday for the one-year anniversary of the North Minneapolis tornado.
Economy/Jobs NCRT Didn’t “Wander in Circles” Following North Minneapolis Tornado, Says Louis King By Jacob Wheeler | May 23, 2012 Following last year’s May 22 tornado that devastated North Minneapolis, a coalition of nearly 60 local organizations came together to form the Northside Community Response Team (NCRT) to confront both the short-term and long-term needs.
Environment Compiling Personal Stories Of The Minneapolis Tornado By Jacob Wheeler | May 23, 2012 The Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater company has undertaken a community connections program called “Temporary Shelters: Tales from the Minneapolis Tornado” — to tell the stories of people who survived the North Minneapolis tornado.
Education “You can fix a building, but emotional scars remain”-Mayor Rybak On Tornado Recovery By Jacob Wheeler | May 23, 2012 Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak reflected on the anniversary of the North Minneapolis tornado that fixing a building is easy compared to healing someone’s emotional scars following a traumatic event.
Education Releasing North Minneapolis Tornado Anxiety and Pain Through Balloons By Jacob Wheeler | May 23, 2012 Students at Lucy Laney School in North Minneapolis released 200 blue balloons into the air, thereby freeing themselves of the anxiety and pain that the community has carried since the May 22 tornado.
Minnesota Insurance, Contractor Headaches Haunt Minneapolis Tornado Victims By Allison Herrera | May 22, 2012 Eric Reichwald’s home in North Minneapolis suffered over $60,000 worth of damage. He claims an enormous contractor and insurance headache after the fact.
Minnesota “There’s so much good on the north side” By Jacob Wheeler | May 22, 2012 Natasha Mitchell misses North Minneapolis. The 38-year-old mother of two had to leave the neighborhood after the house they were renting was struck by last year’s tornado, leaving serious water and mold damage in every corner.
MN Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Across Downed Power Lines, Broken Trees By Jacob Wheeler | May 22, 2012 A lot has been done, but there’s more to do to recover from the Minneapolis tornado that happened one year ago. Residents on the 3000 block of Logan in North Minneapolis were among many who came to each other’s aid following the May 22 tornado.
Environment Rebuilding Right on the Northside: One Year Later By Allison Herrera | May 21, 2012 More than 80 architects and designers came together to help those whose homes were damaged by the tornado.
Economy/Jobs One Year After Storm, a Void in North Minneapolis By Jacob Wheeler | May 21, 2012 Many of DeWayne Thornton’s North Minneapolis neighbors left for Brooklyn Center or other parts of the Twin Cities following the tornado. Others are living day-to-day in shelters on the South Side of Chicago.
Minnesota Lack of Liquor Store Reduces Crime in North Minneapolis Neighborhood By Jacob Wheeler | May 16, 2012 One year after the tornado that ravaged North Minneapolis, things are looking up for Anthony and Shemeika Strong. The absence of the Broadway Liquor Outlet has also been a blessing for their neighborhood.
Economy/Jobs Occupy Wins Home in North Minneapolis, Defends Latino Home in South By Jacob Wheeler | May 3, 2012 Alejandra and her brother David, two Minneapolis college students and activists for the Dream Act, took the Occupy Homes pledge this week to stay in the house which their Mexican immigrant parents purchased and are in danger of losing.
Economy/Jobs Hopeful Sign For Occupy-Backed Homeowner Facing Foreclosure By Jacob Wheeler | May 2, 2012 For months US Bank has denied having any control over foreclosure proceedings against North Minneapolis homeowner Monique White, but now US Bank officials are working quietly behind the scenes, apparently to help her.
Economy/Jobs Does North Minneapolis Need Pie in the Sky Ideas or Roofs Overhead? By Jacob Wheeler | April 25, 2012 Nearly a year after the tornado that ripped through North Minneapolis, opinions vary greatly on what the poverty-stricken community needs most from local and state government. Should the City introduce “pie in the sky” ideas or focus on more immediate problems?
Economy/Jobs Occupy-Backed Homeowner Facing Eviction Confronts US Bank CEO By Jacob Wheeler | April 18, 2012 Shortly after the US Bank shareholders meeting, Monique White and two organizers with Minnesotans United for a Fair Economy met with CEO Richard Davis and got their long awaited face time with the Goliath figure.
Economy/Jobs “US Bank and Wells Fargo Throw Families onto the Street” By Jacob Wheeler | April 18, 2012 More than a hundred demonstrators marched on Tax Day to Wells Fargo’s headquarters, where they held a spirited rally, posted a “bill” for “$21.6 billion Wells Fargo owes the 99%”, and asked the bank to pay its fair share in taxes.
