Longfellow Rising News Today

Several community members say plans to house the police’s new Third Precinct offices with community services will alienate people who don’t trust law enforcement.

Theater maker and artistic director of Pangea World Theater, Dipankar Mukherjee of Minneapolis, has been named the 2023 Distinguished Artist Award recipient by the McKnight Foundation.

The protests in the summer of 2020 changed a lot of minds. Mary-Margaret Zindren is one of the leaders who helped transform the passion behind those protests into concrete action in the architecture profession.

Minneapolis' Longfellow neighborhood is coming together around art created out of the community's own messages of hope and resilience.

One year after George Floyd's murder, communities are still rebuilding.

A Minneapolis community tries to foster racial and cultural unity as it rebuilds from unrest a year ago.

When unrest in Minneapolis spread to the city’s Longfellow neighborhood last year, Ruhel Islam opened his restaurant, Gandhi Mahal, for medics to treat injured protesters. The next night, rioters set fire to the police building and dozens of businesses in Longfellow, and by dawn, his restaurant lay in ashes. In a Facebook post that went viral the same morning, his teenage daughter, Hafsa, quoted him as saying, “Let my building burn, justice needs to be served, put those officers in jail.”...