The heart of Sergio Choy’s job as a medical interpreter is to capture the spirit of the message between patient and medical provider. “You hear things like, ‘I’m feeling a little blue today,’ in ...

Friends and family of Joel Larson have started a campaign to remember the energetic and dynamic young gay man who lost his life to anti-LGBT hate in Minneapolis’ Loring Park in 1991. Larson’s loved ...

The Minnesota Line of farm equipment, made by prison laborers, would take over as the predominant industry until the mid-1980s, ending officially in 2006. Having left industrial production the ...

When Gov. Wendell Anderson, a former Gopher hockey star, introduced the new University of Minnesota President C. Peter Magrath around the athletic department in 1974, he started the day with breakfast ...

The hit country music parody musical The Doyle & Debbie Show has come to roost at the New Century Theatre in downtown Minneapolis. Its composer-playwright, Bruce Arntson, is a native Minnesotan now ...

In February 1951, within a climate of local anti-Semitism, Mount Sinai Hospital opened its doors at the corner of Chicago Avenue and 22nd Street in Minneapolis. The hospital — described in the AJW as ...

At 40 years old, Merle Payne is soft-spoken with a trim beard and unassuming nature. He is the co-director of Centro de Trabajodores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL), an organization “where workers build power ...

The faces stare up at you from the folded tabloid newspaper on sale at the your nearest convenience store: hundreds of photos of people at what might be the worst moment of their lives, available to ...

Even though all the men in this case are of color, they are operating within and are simultaneously harmed by systems of white supremacy.

David Perez arrived from Mexico when he was two years old and, like many in his family, he’s been working off and on in the family businesses for years—first as a dishwasher and then as a cook at one ...

It was a bitterly cold Minnesota wintery day as Ahmay Ya and I drove the last few miles north of St. Paul to Interview the Karen Buddhist Monks residing in the new Karen Buddhist temple near Blaine.

For years, 3405 Chicago Ave was a radical community hub. The building housed three interconnected pillars of South Minneapolis: the Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition, RARE Productions and Cafe ...