Story and Video by Bill Sorem
Josie Johnson spoke at the Minneapolis League of Women Voters 2019 Annual Meeting in North Minneapolis. Johnson, active civil rights leader, former acting director of the Minneapolis Urban League, University vice president and provost, and the first Black Regent at the University of Minnesota spoke to LWV members and friends at the Annual Meeting, June 11, 2019. (more…) Continue Reading →
North Minneapolis community members are changing the perception of their often maligned neighborhood by telling their their own stories at FLOW Northside Arts Crawl. Continue Reading →
Rep. Rena Moran turns an offensive remark from Rep. Jim Newberger about prison and North Minneapolis into a beautiful lesson about structural racism. Continue Reading →
“Boy, wouldn’t that be convenient, to have that rail line going from the prison to North Minneapolis.” – Rep. Jim Newberger Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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.
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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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
More than 80 architects and designers came together to help those whose homes were damaged by the tornado. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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? Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
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. Continue Reading →
