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Theater tackles violence in football

Theater tackles violence in football

Players, team owners and football fans are being forced come to grips with the idea that the sport they love may be extracting a much higher price than anyone knew.
by April Dembosky

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Brooklyn Park first Twin Cities suburb to open teen shelter

Brooklyn Park first Twin Cities suburb to open teen shelter

Brooklyn Park is the first Twin Cities suburb to open a shelter designed for young people. Its 12-bed shelter will serve young people ages 16 to 20.
by Sasha Aslanian

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Counter Stories: A conversation about Cosby

Counter Stories: A conversation about Cosby

The story of Bill Cosby's fall from grace is at the intersection of race, class, gender and celebrity.

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Anti-abortion demonstrators rally on Roe v. Wade anniversary

Anti-abortion demonstrators rally on Roe v. Wade anniversary

More than 1,000 anti-abortion demonstrators gathered at the Capitol Thursday to demand an end to government-funded abortions.
by Laura Yuen

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2-year-old killed in Brooklyn Center fire identified

Keoni Kemontre Holt was pronounced dead at North Memorial Medical Center as a result of fire-related injuries.
by Riham Feshir

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Counter Stories: How "Selma" reverberates

What it means to have a major motion picture depict the Civil Rights era through a black lens.

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Black Lives Matter group aims to #ReclaimMLK with march to Capitol

Black Lives Matter group aims to #ReclaimMLK with march to Capitol

Hundreds of marchers jammed University Avenue and nearby streets for about four hours Monday, as they called for an end to racial profiling, an independent citizen board to review police conduct and bias and cultural awareness training for police officers.
by Martin Moylan, Elizabeth Dunbar and The Associated Press

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American RadioWorks: King's Last March

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Four decades later, King remains one of the most vivid symbols of hope for racial unity in America. But that's not the way he was viewed in the last year of his life.

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Twin Cities-based Somali youth group seeks funding for expansion

Twin Cities-based Somali youth group seeks funding for expansion

The nonprofit Ka Joog, which has won honors from the White House and the FBI for its work, will detail its two-year plan for expanding educational, employment and arts programs across the state Tuesday.
by Laura Yuen

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