The Respect for Marriage Act passed in the Senate last week after a bipartisan vote. It now moves on to the House for a vote. If passed at the House level, it will end up on President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, the city’s governing body, voted 8-3 on Tuesday to allow SF police to deploy robots capable of using lethal force.

The Minneapolis City Council will soon be voting on whether or not to reform the city’s police civilian review process with a community commission on police oversight. However, community advocates aren’t convinced that the proposed ordinance will create the tangible change many have hoped for.

Nicholas Kraus, the 36-year-old St. Paul man who plowed into a Minneapolis protest in 2021, killing Deona Marie Knajdek, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The city council is set to hold its second budget hearing on Tuesday, November 15th to continue reviewing Frey’s recommendations.

The proposed budget, which includes funds for both 2023 and 2024, totals $3.3 billion between the two years–$400 million of which Frey recommends be used by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD).

Professional speaker, executive coach, and Northside activist, Jesse Ross, is creating a much-needed space for BIPOC businesses in the North Minneapolis community he calls home.

Ross, who was raised in North Minneapolis, is currently closing on a 68,000-square-foot building at the intersection of North Second Street and 26th Avenue North which will provide commercial rental spaces for 15 to 20 BIPOC and women-owned businesses.

Almost a year and a half after protests erupted over the death of 19-year-old Menards employee James Stanback, nearly a dozen people are now facing criminal charges.

This year, for the first time ever, two boats featuring entirely rowers of color took part in the world’s largest rowing regatta, the Head of Charles in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

According to the Justice Department’s findings, incarcerated individuals with disabilities who were part of the system’s General Education Development (GED) program, were not able to request or receive the GED exam modifications or accommodations that they needed.

The Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) is updating its ‘standards of effective practice’ to incorporate language that it believes will better prepare new teachers “to teach racially and ethnically diverse and multilingual students” as well as students “who have experienced trauma and [those] with disabilities...” 

Yesterday, a noose was reported hanging from an apparatus at the Edina Community Center, not far from the site of racist and homophobic graffiti which was found last week. These incidents are just two of many recent racist and anti-LGBTQ+ vandalisms in the city.

Former police officer Dr. Cedric Alexander has been nominated by the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, to serve as the city’s first-ever community safety commissioner.

There are still plenty of amazing organizations fighting for accessible, legal, and safe abortions. Here are 5 ways you can support abortions access right now.

There are many opportunities to take part in the Pride events across Minneapolis and beyond this summer. Here are just a few of the local organizations and businesses celebrating the LGBTQ+ community.

If an agent does not need a warrant to arrest or search people, how is probable cause or suspicion determined? At the U.S. border, and when policing Black and Brown bodies, it appears that probable cause can be an extremely subjective concept.

Journalist Linda Tirado, who was blinded in her left eye and suffered brain damage as a result of being struck in the face by a police projectile, has settled with the city. Tirado was injured during the protests against police brutality that took place in Minneapolis immediately following George Floyd’s death.

19 children and 2 adults were killed earlier today at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. The incident is officially the most deadly school shooting in the United States since the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut, where 26 people were killed.

There’s no shortage of amazing artists at Art-A-Whirl, which has been going strong since 1995, but we wanted to highlight a few participating BIPOC creators whose works should be on your itinerary this weekend.

Former Minneapolis police officer, Thomas Lane, has pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter. Lane’s plea comes as part of a deal, almost two years after his role in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, who was fatally restrained by Minneapolis police at the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue in south Minneapolis. The guilty plea will ensure murder charges against Lane are dismissed.