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Posted: Apr 25, 2021 2:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 6 Adora Nwofor is not alone in her anti-racism and Black Lives Matter advocacy work. Many people have shared her calls for change to how communities are policed, but change hasnt come. (Leah Hennel Photography)

Families of Minnesotans slain by police plead at Capitol for changes Stephen Montemayor, Star Tribune © Star Tribune/Star Tribune/AARON LAVINSKY • STAR TRIBUNE/Star Tribune/TNS From left, Katie Wright, whose son Daunte Wright was shot and killed by Brooklyn Center police, spoke to Amity Dimock and John Garcia, the mother and stepfather of Kobe Heisler, who was shot and killed by police from the same department in 2019. Wright and Dimock testified before the public safety con...

Watch: Walz explains loosening of COVID restrictions in state A mask-wearing mandate for public indoor spaces will end no later than July 1 in Minnesota and COVID-19 restrictions on business capacities and gathering sizes will end by May 28.  May 6, 2021 — 10:27am Text size

FDAs menthol cigarette ban would be a police state win Its the latest in a series of nanny-state attacks on consumer choice with regard to tobacco Follow Us Question of the Day   ANALYSIS/OPINION: Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its intent to ban menthol cigarettes under the authority it was given by the 2009 Tobacco Control Act.  This is the latest in a series of nanny-state attacks on consumer choice over the past two years with regard to t...

Oklahoma passes a law that can protect drivers who run over protesters Updated 1:11 AM ET, Thu April 22, 2021 Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed legislation Wednesday that gives certain protections to drivers that strike protesters with their vehicles. (CNN)Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill Wednesday granting immunity to drivers who unintentionally injure or kill protesters while attempting to flee and which stiffens penalties for demonstrators who block public roadways, according to...

Public Service or Protests for Black Lives? We must use all of the tools we have to achieve racial justice and end police brutality. Black Lives Matter protesters met with violence from police in riot gear. A few weeks ago, a verdict was rendered: Derek Chauvin, guilty on all three counts for the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May.  Floyd’s family — and, by extension, Black America — saw the system hold a police officer accountable for killing a Black person. The v...

By Associated Press   Published May 4, 2021 Chyna Whitaker, center, holds her son Daunte Jr., as she walks up to microphones to speak during a news conference, Tuesday, April 13, 2021, in Minneapolis. The father, Daunte Wright, 20, was shot and killed by police Sunday after a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Hundreds of people joined Daunte Wright’s family and friends on a march through the Minneapolis suburb where he was fatally shot by a police officer duri...

Sharpton fills a space with the urgencies of prayer and politics.

Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer found guilty last month of murdering George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, has asked for a new trial, citing what his lawyers call “pervasive” misconduct in how the state prosecuted its case. On 20 April, Chauvin’s widely watched trial came to an end and he was found guilty of multiple charges of murder as well as manslaughter, after being caught on video kneeling on Mr Floyd’s neck for...

Chauvin files for new trial, faulting judge, prosecution Attorney contends that Cahill failed to sequester jury, among other errors.  By Paul Walsh, CHAO XIONG and Paul Walsh and Star Tribune writers May 4, 2021 — 5:28pm Text size Copy shortlink: Derek Chauvin should receive a new trial in the murder of George Floyd because of prosecutorial misconduct, judicial error and impropriety by jurors, an attorney fo...