So, just as with Wellstone two decades ago, we now need a thousand Melissa Hortmans. We need people to step up where she left ...

The 160th anniversary of Juneteenth was commemorated Thursday across the Twin Cities with block parties, festivals, concerts ...

W.E.B Du Bois was the first Black American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University in 1895 and became an important social ...

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a ...

Sojourner Truth was a formerly enslaved woman who became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance and civil and women’s rights. Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President ...

Sojourner Truth gave this speech in 1851 at the Woman’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Several different versions exist, ...

The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.

They were there to begin saying goodbye to state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, who were gunned down in their ...

More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial ...

Vance Boelter, the man accused of killing DFL House leader Melissa Hortman and her husband and shooting and injuring DFL Sen.

Congressional Republicans are working to extend President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts by cutting spending on safety net ...

The Minnesota Democratic senators eflected on Melissa’s leadership, devotion to her community and many contributions to her ...