Tina Burnside


Civil Civil Rights Attorney & Museum Curator Harvests the Stories Community Needs

Brittany Lewis


Action Researcher Harvests Community Wisdom to Affect Public Policy and Heal Herself

David Tilsen


Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

Kenneth Holt 


For This Educator Black Lives Matter Is Not a Movement; It’s His Life

Ronald Judy


Rich Complexity of the Historic, South Minneapolis Black Community

Ricardo Levins Morales


Puerto Rican Social Justice Artist Organizes to Win

April Knutson


Former Leader of MN CP Continues to Build United Fronts

Lisa Albrecht


Lesbian Feminist Educator Still Learning, To Repair the World

Sherry Quan Lee


Black/ Asian Writer Grapples with Identity, Dares to Nurture Untold Stories

Marcie Rendon


Fought Criminal Injustice with American Indian Movement, became Indigenous Mystery Writer

Susana De Leon


From Torreón to Minneapolis: Immigration Attorney and Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue Dancer

Michael McConnell


Married His Husband in 1971, Demands Equality for All.

Tom O’Connell


Our Minneapolis Revolution: 1930s, 1970s, & Today.

Angela Conley


Hennepin County Commissioner Learned to Solve "Unsolvable Problems" by Listening to Survivors

Veronica Mendez Moore


CTUL Organizer Builds Labor Power with Marginalized Workers

Valérie Déus


Haitian American Poet Misses New York, Builds Artist's Life in South Minneapolis

Henry Jimenez


Son of Undocumented Immigrants with Las Vegas Roots, Advocates for Latinx Minnesota

Alice A. Anderson (1932-2017)


Born On the MN/Canadian Border. Beautiful Activist of South Minneapolis

Teresa Ortiz


Mexico Ctiy Student Activist 1968, Becomes Latinx Advocate on Lake Street

Kathleen Farber


Union/DFL Activist Remembers Lake Street in the '60s

R. Vincent Moniz Jr.


Indigenous Poet on Growing Up "Urban Indian" in Phillips Neighborhood.

Drew Edwards


6th Grade Teacher Struggled in School. He Pushes and Turns the Stone in North Minneapolis

Gilberto Vázquez Valle (1958-2021)


Radio Host Built Solidarity Through Encuentro with Latin American Folk Music

Effie Lee


Born in Mississippi in 1937, Recruited by Tuskegee to Work Minneapolis Food Service

Julius Lee (1931-2022)


Tuskegee Graduate Migrated from Alabama to Escape Jim Crow