Tag: Ruth Richardson
Rep. Ilhan Omar urges voters to make reproductive rights key issue...
Rep. Ilhan Omar and several elected officials and activists held a press conference in Minneapolis Tuesday morning, calling on voters to make reproductive rights...
Unhealthy air quality prompts cancellation of first Juneteenth celebration under new...
Dangerously toxic air quality in Minnesota forced state legislators to cancel an event they had planned Thursday to mark the first year of Juneteenth...
African Heritage Day at the Capitol in St. Paul crowd urged...
The Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage (CMAH) hosted the 2023 African Heritage Day on the Hill at the Minnesota State Capitol on Monday...
Gov. Walz signs law making Juneteenth a state holiday
Gov. Tim Walz signed legislation Friday making Juneteenth a state holiday, enabling Minnesota to join 24 other states and the District of Columbia that...
Minnesotans of African heritage rally at the state capitol
ST. PAUL - Hundreds of Minnesotans packed the state capitol Wednesday to call attention to the legislative priorities of the black community.
The rally called...
Black lawmakers debrief on 2019 Minnesota legislative session
A quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, a collection of essays he penned...