This pages includes posts on policing, (Mel Reeves, Jess Sundin, Jason Sole)  prisons, (Jason Sole, Filiberto Nolasco Gomez, Nelsie Yang) police in schools, the prison industrial complex, MPD150, defunding the police, abolition, mass incarceration, the formerly incarcerated, re-entry programs, ( Marcie Rendon, David Lawrence Grant, Jason Sole) restorative justice, George Floyd, Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, the 4th Precinct occupation, the 3rd precinct burning, the Minneapolis Uprising, Minneapolis riots and alternatives to policing and prisons.

Jane Burnett


St. Louis Park Girl Radicalized in 1970s Chicago

Sandy Hernandez


Undocumented Immigrants Are My People.

Kenneth Holt 


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

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)


Fights the Power

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez


The Personal is Political

Robin Wonsley


The Revolution is My Boyfriend

Angela Hooks


Founder of Black On Black Development

David Lawrence Grant


Writing Things That Matter

Ricardo Levins Morales


Radical Community Artist

David Tilsen


Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

Kendrick Wronski


Woman Behind the Painted Signs

Alfreda Daniels


Organizes Across Communities & Continents.

August Nimtz


History and Contingency in the Making of a Black Communist.

Jess Sundin


The People are my Mountains.

Nelsie Yang


Heal Together in Public

Katrina Knutson


Urban Queer Artist Fights Police Brutality & Advances Intersectional Liberation

Phillipe Cunningham


Reimagining Public Safety in Minneapolis

Bruce Drewlow


Northern Minnesota to North Minneapolis: the Education of an Educator.

Drew Edwards


6th Grade Teacher Struggled in School

Veronica Mendez Moore


CTUL Organizer Builds Labor Power with Marginalized Workers

Bruce Nestor


People's Lawyer, Urban Gardener

Susana De Leon


Attorney & Dancer without Borders.

Alice A. Anderson (1932-2017)


Beautiful Activist of South Minneapolis

Chris Juhn


Social Movement Photographer and ABLE Press Founder

Raymond Dehn


Critical Resistance, Architecture, and State Electoral Politics.

Adriana Cerrillo


Elevates Immigrant Voices to Change Racist Policies

Marcie Rendon


Writes the Indigenous Mystery.

April Knutson


Builds United Fronts for Paix et Égalité

Brittany Lewis


Action Researcher Leads with Love

John Samuel Wright


The Struggle for Freedom is Transgenerational

Minneapolis Interview Project
Life Stories that reveal inequities and struggles for social justice in Minneapolis

Anne Winkler-Morey

Anne Winkler-Morey is a writer, historian, educator, activist and bicyclist based in Minneapolis. She is a scholar of social movements, nationalism and inequality in the US and Latin America. She began writing the Minneapolis Interview Project in May, 2016, completing it in November 2023. Her book, Allegiance to Winds and Waters: Bicycling the Political Divides of the United States , was published April, 2022. In November 2023 she began a two-year world tour. Read her blog at: annewinklermorey.com

Eric Mueller

Eric Mueller is a Minneapolis-based artist, photographer, and teacher. He began photographing portraits for the Minneapolis Interview Project in early 2019. His photo book, Family Resemblance, was published by Daylight Books in 2020. His year-long, photo-a-day project "Reset 2021" was exhibited at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona in 2022.

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