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Tag Archive for: This is US

2025 Report: New Americans Drive Minnesota’s Population Growth and Labor Force

In many counties, particularly outside the Twin Cities metro, immigration has been the difference between growth and decline.

Katie Chin: Honoring Her Mother’s Legacy While Paving Her Own

“My mother seemed immortal,” Chin narrates in her show. “A kitchen warrior, who conquered every hardship with grace and determination, always at the ready to stir fry in case of emergency.”

Q&A With Rose McGee About the HeadScarf Story Circle

We asked Rose McGee to talk about what the Minnesota Humanities Center Headscarf Story Circle is. There are upcoming discussions and events in Minneapolis and Rochester.

We the People: Immigration Law and Constitutional Rights

We asked the team at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (SMRLS), which has worked with immigrants for decades, to walk through some of the questions people tend not to understand about immigration. We also received other details from immigration attorneys and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to clarify what the law says about immigration and constitutional rights.

Minnesota Is Home

"Minnesota is home. We live here. We raise our children here. Our presence is not a question — it is a fact. We serve this state with care."

Surviving ICE: Letty’s Story

The story of a woman who was detained three months by immigration agents in 2008, and her insights to share for families like hers who are impacted today.

Emilia González Avalos: Collective Refusal to Surrender Humanity

What is being defended in Minnesota is larger than any policy. The question is whether a multiracial democracy can imagine itself as a shared project. The answer offered by dog whistle politics is no. The answer offered by organizing is that people are building an “us” anyway — patiently, visibly, and with increasing strength. 

Exploring the Links Between Latina Art and Organizing: Jessica Lopez Lyman’s “Place-Keepers”

"Place-Keepers" profiles artists whose work moves fluidly between performance and protest. Their practices challenge boundaries between art and activism, demonstrating how aesthetics can mobilize communities, foster healing, and sustain long-term organizing.

We Are 1924: An Innovative Photo Project Reclaims One of Our Darkest Historical Immigration Moments

As Krizia puts it, with few exceptions, in the United States “we are all immigrants.”

Commentary: She Fought and Died for Our Belonging

If Renée Good’s courage can move my sister to imagine roots where she once felt only limbo, then the work now is clear. We owe it to her and to our children to turn grief into grounding, fear into presence, and loss into a fierce refusal to disappear.

Photo Gallery: The Day of Renee Good’s Killing, Minnesotans Gathered

Hours after Renee Nicole Good — a 37-year-old mother of three who had moved to Minneapolis last year from Missouri — was killed by an ICE agent, thousands of people gathered in the neighborhood where she died to honor her. She had just dropped off her six-year-old child at school with her partner when she encountered ICE trucks and SUVs and was surrounded by agents.

THIS IS US: A Latina-led nonprofit finds hope in nature

“When we are together, we feel strong,” Méndez says. “Sometimes I feel fear and I say, ‘Shall I continue with this? Am I putting people in a dangerous situation?’ I don’t know. But at the same time, I want people to take a break.”