North High School student leaders call for building improvements
Students say years of disinvestment have left the high school looking like “a prison” with windowless hallways and mice Author: Lauren Leamanczyk Updated: 10:31 PM CST February 18, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS Khadija Ba walked the hallways of North High School with her cell phone camera rolling, hoping the video she captured would send a message.
“We are the blackest school in Minneapolis and this is what our school looks like,” she said into the camera.
In the wake of a city-wide reckoning over race, students and staff at North High School argue kids in the predominately black school deserve better.