People around Minnesota gathered Friday to celebrate, protest, reflect and just be together for Juneteenth. Marches, rallies and celebrations took place in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth and other communities.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, graduating seniors faced an unexpected ending and weren’t able to experience last year traditions. We also asked seniors across Minnesota what they’d like to say to their graduating peers and what they want people to know about the class of 2020. Here are some of their heartfelt answers.
While the exterior of Gordon Parks High School in St. Paul was boarded up, students, faculty, staff, community members gathered to paint murals on the plywood boards covering the windows on Friday.
Photos from around Minneapolis show people joining together Thursday to honor George Floyd. His killing has sparked more than a week of peaceful protests demanding justice and widespread unrest in the Twin Cities and across the nation.
Photos from around the Twin Cities Saturday captured protesters demanding justice, volunteers cleaning up the damage from nights of rioting and a large law enforcement presence formed to prevent further destruction.
Pictures captured a mostly peaceful crowd marching in the early evening in downtown Minneapolis as looting continued in St. Paul’s Midway neighborhood. But after 9 p.m., fire and tear gas had found their way back to Minneapolis.
Fires are still burning and looting is taking place after violent protests over the death of a black man in police custody hit Minneapolis for a second straight night.
Community members from Burnsville, Apple Valley and Eagan honked horns and waved from decorated cars Tuesday during a parade to thank nurses and other health care workers at M Health Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville.
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