RACIAL & SOCIAL INJUSTICE
Friends and community members react to police fatally shooting Philando Castile.
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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.
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Lowry Grove residents thought they had beat the deadline to raise $6 million to save their homes. Not so, says the land owner where the homes sit.
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Rep. Rena Moran (DFL) says her Republican colleagues in the Minnesota House are "out of touch" and "unrealistic" in not appropriating at least $50 million to deal with the state's…
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"The problem is poverty. The problem is racism," said Rev. Victoria Safford of the White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church. "The problem is deep, deep, old oppression."
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"What I don't think black and brown people recognize is that you do have power, but only power in numbers," said Britney Lewis, a member of Occupy the Hood who…
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The "occupy wall street" style of amplifying the public's voice was used to disrupt and express displeasure over Minnesota legislation opponents say is an attack on the poor.
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"Mean spirited" and "humiliating" to poor people is how Ebony Harris describes a Minnesota proposed law requiring 60-days residency to qualify for welfare benefits.
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"Provisional balloting" is now part of a proposed Minnesota constitutional amendment requiring a photo ID to vote, however public testimony was not allowed on the impact it might have on…
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The reason college students are deeply in debt and graduate without a job is because some of them shouldn't be in college says Representative Mark Buesgens (R-Savage).
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