Social Issues

Rule could limit college response to off-campus sex assaults
For now, federal guidelines urge colleges to take action against any sexual misconduct that disrupts a student's education, regardless of where it took place.
Pop-up law clinics to serve rural immigrants
Immigrant communities in rural parts of Minnesota have seen increased arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Soul-searching after Parkland, Dick's CEO embraces tougher stance on guns
Ed Stack is a gun owner who was a longtime Republican donor. A year after Dick's Sporting Goods became an unlikely corporate face of gun control, it sees the fallout from its policy and lobbying.
To prevent pregnancy-related-depression, at-risk women advised to get counseling
An influential expert panel recommends pregnant women at risk of depression get referred to counseling to prevent the illness. But for many women and their doctors, it may be easier said than done.
Officials in the southern Minnesota school district ordered a lockdown Monday after an incident prompted by what the superintendent described as racist comments posted on social media.
New play looks at the lives touched by Emmett Till's death
Now playing at Penumbra, "benevolence" uses FBI transcripts and other records to explore a case that galvanized the civil rights movement.
Parkland family reflects on a year of anguish and activism
"Everybody should consider what it would mean to lose their child, their spouse," says Philip Schentrup. His daughter Carmen was among the 17 students and staff killed in Parkland, Fla., last year.
ChangeMakers: James Badue-El, lifting up the locked up
James Badue-El is the criminal justice state chair for the Minneapolis NAACP where he works to reduce prison recidivism.