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According to the Campaign for Youth Justice, youth in adult jails and prisons are at a higher risk of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse than their peers in the juvenile justice system.

Late last week the Minneapolis City Council approved the ballot language for the public safety charter amendment. The 9-4 vote overrode Mayor Jacob Frey’s second veto of the bill. Frey had argued that the ballot question lacked transparency.

The pipeline, which is 90% complete, crosses treaty-protected land in Minnesota. Activists say it threatens valuable natural resources.

On Saturday, the loved ones of Justin Teigan, Courtney Williams, Daunte Wright and others lost to police violence marched across Saint Paul with a message: we have not forgotten.

The new office will focus not just on women and girls, but men, boys and the Two Spirit community. The state has also approved a new task force to focus on missing and murdered African American women.

Children of color make up a disproportionately large percentage of detention center residents. The Legal Rights Center wants to ensure that, moving forward, youth and their families are supported in community-driven programs, and not shipped out to treatm

Just 2% of students who have been in foster care graduate college on time, compared to 60% of their peers. Indigenous and Black children are disproportionately caught up in the child welfare system. Advocates hope the tuition assistance will help allevia

The proposal, authored by the organization “Yes 4 Minneapolis” would remove the requirement that the city keep a police department. It would replace the police department with a Department of Public Safety. Voters will decide its fate in November. While s

American women die in childbirth at a higher rate than in any other developed nation. Within the United States, non-Hispanic Black women are three times more likely to die from complications in childbirth than white women. In light of these painful dispar