While true that Election Day 2026 is still more than 20 months away, it’s not too soon to begin speculating about how ...

In celebration of Black History Month in February, MPR News is highlighting Black history throughout the state. From a fur ...

At a presentation on Thursday, historian Karen Sieber will share her findings on Minnesota's connection to freeing enslaved ...

Edna Larrabee and Beulah Brunelle wouldn’t stay behind bars and were among the state’s most elusive prisoners.

Although Indigenous people have been in Minnesota for thousands of years, did you know that Native Americans began arriving in the Hanover area around 1850, particularly the Ojibwe, Dakota and ...

Eden Prairie explores its Indigenous history with a new research project, aiming to tell the untold stories of the Dakota ...

Rep. Lisa Demuth became Minnesota’s first Black female House Speaker, sworn in by the state's first Black Senate President, ...

During the game, Baby Gronk met Greenway's father, Chad, who starred at linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings. Greenway told ...

Initially only a week-long, Black History Month was created to ensure Black history would not be forgotten.  Carter G. Woodson, a Black historian and founder of the Association for ...

Land developers in Minneapolis helped turn a legally questionable practice into a standard policy in the burgeoning real ...