Here you will find posts about the migration experience, International migration, the Great Migration within the United States, refugees, immigrant rights organizing, border issues, ICE, immigration detention centers in the Twin Cities, the fight for Driver’s Licenses for All, growing up undocumented, DACA, immigrant neighborhoods, Lake Street, Northeast Minneapolis, the Hmong, Somali and Mexican communities, Latinx, Southeast Asian, and African immigrants.

Daniel Alberto Perez

For School Social Worker; Labor, & Immigrant Rights Organizer, Three North American Nations are Home

Ahmed Anzaldua

Choral Director of BorderCrossSINGS Revolutionizes Classical and Folk Music

Susana De Leon

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

Gilberto Vázquez Valle (1958-2021)

Radio Host Built Solidarity Through Encuentro with Latin American Folk Music

Mustafa Diriye

Somali Immigrant Found What Makes Home: Colleges, Coffee Shops and a Mosque

Effie Lee

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

Nelsie Yang

Hmong American with Northside Roots, Seeks Justice through City Hall and Streets

Teresa Ortiz

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

Sandy Hernandez

Growing Up Undocumented in Minneapolis

John Samuel Wright

4th Generation Minnesotan Recalls 150 years of Resistance to Jim Crow North

Hye-Kyong Kim

Korean Adoptee's Asian Identity Journey, Leads to Career as Trauma Healer

Adriana Cerrillo

Elevates Immigrant Voices to Change Racist Policies

Roya Damsaz

From Iranian Revolution to Grassroots Movements in North Minneapolis.

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez

Chicano Reporter from LA, Centers Marginalized Workers

Henry Jimenez

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

Veronica Mendez Moore

CTUL Organizer Builds Labor Power with Marginalized Workers

Alfreda Daniels

Liberian American Organizes Across Communities and Continents

Roy Guzmán

Celebrated Queer Honduran Poet Puts Down Roots in Minneapolis

Aiden Reed

Gay Adopted Teen, Seeks Space to Be Unique

Jimmy Patiño Jr.

Scholar Activist uses Insider/Outsider Strategy to Build Chicano & Latino Studies

Jess Sundin

Police Justice and Anti-War Activist: The People Are My Mountains

Bruce Nestor

From Immigrant Meat Packers to RNC and Standing Rock: The People's Lawyer

Judy Cooper Lyle

From North Dakota Farmer's Union to Urban Spectrum Theatre -- Committed to Community.

Roxxanne O’Brien

Northside Environmental Justice Activist Speaks Truth to Power.

Julius Lee (1931-2022)

Tuskegee Graduate Migrated from Alabama to Escape Jim Crow