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Photos: Twin Cities SAY WORD! Youth Poetry Festival
Middle and high school students from across the Twin Cities area performed at the SAY WORD! Youth Poetry Festival in Minneapolis, Minn., on April 21, 2012.
MPR News photos of the week
This week, a late-season snowstorm hit northeastern Minnesota, Cirrus finally got funding to develop a personal jet and politicians debated repairing the State Capitol building.
Photos: St. Paul's EMS training
Today is graduation day for the fifth class of St. Paul's Emergency Medical Services Academy. Most are students of color. The city program was created to diversify the pipeline of emergency medical technicians in Minnesota, where the field remains largely the province of white men.
MPR News photos of the week
Occupy Minnesota confronts the Minneapolis mayor, Kevin Love is sidelined by a mild concussion, a University of Minnesota researcher watches penguins from space, and a new book features archival photos of early Minnesota golf courses. All that and more in our photos of the week.
Photos: The emperor penguins of Antarctica from space
Researchers from the University of Minnesota's Polar Geospatial Center have co-authored new research with partners from the British Antarctic Survey that shows there are twice as many emperor penguins in the Antarctic than scientists previously thought -- using satellite technology.
MPR News photos of the week
This week, we visited an oasis in a western Minnesota food desert, the northern woods and the Jordan home of a family involved in a devastating crash in Kansas.
MPR News photos of the week
We watched as spring came much sooner than expected, admired a photographer's new exhibition about Somali youth in Minneapolis, saw Michele Bachmann outside the Supreme Court, covered local rallies in support of an unarmed Florida teenager shot dead by a neighborhood watch member, a rally against the same-sex marriage ban, and more.
Minnesota in Photos: Spring blossomed early
Signs of spring can be seen several weeks earlier than normal in Minnesota. We visited Battle Creek Regional Park in Maplewood and the Peace Garden in Minneapolis to get a closer look.
OutFront Minnesota Lobby Day of Action
More than a thousand opponents of a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage rallied outside the Capitol Thursday, March 29, 2012. Speakers included lawmakers, clergy, representatives of labor and immigrant groups, and a graduate of Blaine High School who talked about the bullying he endured for being gay.