Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to take immediate action to protect consumers from abuses in payday lending, vehicle-title lending, and other types of high-cost exploitative consumer lending.
The Bush Foundation announced the selection of its 2019 Bush Fellows.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman Thursday demonstrated for the county board a new statistical dashboard that is likely the most revealing of any prosecutor’s office in the country.
Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan came to the Rondo Neighborhood this past Monday (March 11) to tout the administration’s new budget; one they say is built on equity, equality and inclusion.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The NAACP issued a March 6 statement supporting the National Association of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) call for a civil rights audit and examination of executive-level diversity at CNN.
LOS ANGELES – Live Nation, and Crown Publishing announced all remaining moderators for the final tour dates of “Becoming: An Intimate Conversation with Michelle Obama.”
Ron Harris has become Minneapolis’ chief resilience officer.
The Why You? Initiative, Inc. ([YU?]) will host its Biannual Spring Confab to be held at InterContinental Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport Hotel, 5005 Glumack Dr., Minneapolis. The conference takes place March 29 and March 30. Formally called Confab, the conference draws individuals from various…
Donovan Jones-Myers was 15-years-old when his aunt invited him to attend his first Rites of Passage ceremony.
Gov. Tim Walz notified the Minnesota State Legislature of his intention to appoint 16 area residents to serve on the Metropolitan Council including seven people of color.
Insight News founder and editor-in-chief, Al McFarlane (right) interviewed Dorothy Bridges, former senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and former president of Franklin Bank. The interview is part of the Comcast's "Voices of the Civil Rights Movement" series. The …
Minnesota is joining a multi-state lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from diverting federal funds to build a wall along the United States southern border.
State Rep. Michael Howard (DFL-Richfield) introduced Homework Starts with Home legislation, seeking $8 million to provide solutions to help combat home instability for Minnesota students and families.
Minnesota Assistant Senate DFL Leader Jeff Hayden, DFL-Minneapolis, was appointed to the Senate Finance Committee last week.
State Sen. Jeff Hayden (DFL-Minneapolis) and State Rep. Rena Moran (DFL-St. Paul) joined advocates and families to announce the Minnesota African American Family Preservation Act.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) is an original sponsor to the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act, H.R. 1169, aimed at providing legal status and a pathway to citizenship for qualifying Liberian refugees.
Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Prosperity Now has partnered with the Northwest Area Foundation to share findings outlining the work of six community-centered financial stability projects to address the racial wealth divide.
Members of the Minnesota House and Senate announced the first United Black Legislative Caucus as part of Black History Month.
Eight Black women are among the list of finalists to serve as members of Metropolitan Council, which recently selected finalists for each of the 16 council districts. The finalists will have an opportunity to provide public testimony at a public meeting scheduled for Feb. 13 at the Minneapol…
Timberwolves forward/center Karl-Anthony Towns was named a Western Conference All-Star by the National Basketball Association.
Minneapolis NAACP executive board member Anika Bowie is running for St. Paul City Council.
Minnesota’s capital city of Saint Paul now has an African-born person on its city council. That city’s council and mayor appointed Somali-American Kassim Busuri last week to take up a seat that opened up in December after the retirement of Dan Bostrom who had served for 22 years. Busuri will…
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The Twin Cities is experiencing some of the coldest weather in a generation, and Comcast wants to make sure its customers – and members of the public – have a way to stay connected in emergencies or if they lose service as a result of the weather.
For the second year in a row Insight News was honored by the Minnesota Newspaper Association (MNA) in the Better Newspaper Contest.
Reparations, police brutality, disrupting mass incarceration, and how Minnesota’s child welfare system hurts Black children and families are among the topics at a February conference dedicated to empowering civic engagement in Minnesota.
St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter announced a series of seven community conversations called “Imagine Our City” to be held in February, ahead of the State of Our City Summit in March.
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The NCAA Men’s Final Four is not merely a series of three basketball games; it’s four days of area-wide events bringing in upwards of 100,000 visitors pouring millions of dollars into the local economy.
Gov. Tim Walz has selected Lola Velazquez-Aguilu to serve as the chair of the Commission on Judicial Selection.
At long last, one of the greatest injustices in recent history has been corrected.
The Fourth Judicial District’s Equal Justice Committee is partnering with the Hennepin County Bar Association and the University of St. Thomas School of Law on an upcoming continuing legal education (CLE) event.
The Hennepin County Board of scheduled a public hearing on the county's food protection ordinance for Tuesday, February 12, at 1:30 p.m. in room A-2400 of the Hennepin County Government Center. This ordinance establishes standards for the regulation of food establishments to protect the hea…
By proclaiming Human Trafficking Awareness Month in January, the Hennepin County Board of Commissioners recommitted to protecting and supporting a safe future for young people in the community.
Voting January 15 as the Hennepin County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, the board elected District 2 Commissioner Irene Fernando as chair and District 5 Commissioner Debbie Goettel as vice chair of the authority.
The Hennepin County Board today awarded $1.6 million of Environmental Response Fund grants for nine projects to assess and clean up contaminated sites where added environmental costs hinder site improvements or redevelopment.
Juxtaposition Arts will present the work of Minnesota-based visual artist Mara Duvra in the 2007 Emerson Gallery on view Feb. 11 – April 6.
Bringing the conversation to the spot where people are perhaps most affected by the federal government shutdown – the airport – Rep. Ilhan Omar and others, including a TSA worker, called on President Donald Trump to reopen the government and get people back to receiving paychecks that don’t …
Every Minnesotan is owed the opportunity to pursue and obtain completion of a higher education credential regardless of race, gender, or socio-economic status.
A Go Fund Me has been established for Cyntoia Brown, the African-American Tennessee woman who was granted clemency this month by Gov. Bill Haslam.
Democracy has not been hijacked, but it has taken a “very frightening detour.”
Derrick Johnson, president of NAACP, issued the following statement on federal Judge Jesse Furman’s ruling to block of the Trump Administration’s plan to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 census.
BALTIMORE – The nation's leading civil rights organization issued the following statement regarding CBS’ Election 2020 news team.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the passage of H.Res. 41, a resolution Rejecting White Nationalism and White Supremacy.
WASHINGTON D.C. – Rep. Ilhan Omar (DFL-MN) will sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the 116th Congress.
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BALTIMORE/ACCRA –NAACP President Derrick Johnson traveled to Ghana to meet with Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in support of the upcoming “Year of Return Ghana 2019” project, a year-long journey to celebrate the reconnecting of Africans throughout the Diaspora to their African heritage.
Secretary of State Steve Simon announced his “Investing in Democracy” agenda, alongside legislative leaders, county officials, advocates, and voters.
Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) said the body is disappointed and disturbed about CBS News' recent announcement showcasing new hires for coverage of the 2020 Presidential election.
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