Closing schools in Minneapolis has increased inequalities, lowered student achievement and come at the expense of participatory democracy.

Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...

Over three dozen protesters at the University of Illinois Chicago condemned immigration enforcement officials on campus and called on school leadership for stronger student protections Wednesday after...

I spend time with my cellmate, talk to friends, eat food and watch wrestling.

St. Paul’s Benjamin E. Mays School opened its doors this fall with a new focus as an Afrocentric magnet — a longtime dream of community members in the African-American Rondo neighborhood.

Minneapolis Public Schools parents filled the John B. Davis Center meeting room Tuesday night as the school board listened to an opaque presentation from district administration on suggested school cl...

Raise awareness and improve education on the MPS School Transformation Plan

Show your work, Minneapolis Public Schools. Families don’t trust you.

Move to make English the first foreign language taught in schools is hailed by some as a sovereign break with France

Forty years after my family fought for the right for me to hug my mother in prison, children are still being denied the same human connection.

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

The lack of mental health care in Illinois prisons exacerbates a larger cycle of harm--one that Simone Austin, has been stuck in for years.

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe’s most influential carceral institutions, including England’s BridewellMore than 25...

It’s back to school season, so we’ve curated information and tools for students and teachers to use when researching the carceral system.

Rebookings of immigrants into local jails are an effort to circumvent federal rules and regulations, legal experts say. Our nationwide analysis shows that in the past year, two Florida jails had…

DHS officers posed as concerned citizens, joining Signal groups and taking photos of community meetings

Letter written in 1847 to Sandbach, Tinne and Company’s Liverpool office reveals it engaged in practice after receiving taxpayer-funded compensation, book says When Britain abolished slavery, plantation owners from powerful families notoriously received huge sums in compensation, while those who were enslaved got nothing. Now evidence has come to light that Sandbach, Tinne and Company – a corporation closely linked to the merchants who got the biggest taxpayer-funded compensation payouts – continued to traffic enslaved Africans illegally after abolition to Guyana, in South America. Continue reading...

It wasn't a scandal but a machine—funded, transatlantic, and still running.

The Uihlein family said it wanted to follow the lead of Pat and Shirley Ryan with its gift to the Northwestern football program.

By Jake Steinberg publishing November 17, 2026; preorders open! The newest entry in our 50 Maps series.  Explore Minneapolis and St. Paul in a brand new way through a full-color book of maps. New, col...

“He was just so much fun to interview and he had so many incredible stories,” says Dave Zirin, who frequently acted as Zinn's onstage interlocutor. “And I remember saying to him, ‘What we need is a pe...

White Sox retire former player and skipper’s No. 13 before the club takes on Cleveland

The US prison population is aging rapidly, and incarcerated seniors are not getting the care they need.

An English translation of Cooking in Maximum Security reveals the ingenuity of incarcerated Italians' efforts to cook on the inside.

Throughout history, almost every national liberation struggle has been labelled “terrorism” by the powers exercising colonial rule or foreign occupation. This strategy is nothing new. The British E…

For the second day in a row, dumpsters filled with unused school supplies were discovered outside former Acero charter schools now run by Chicago Public Schools.