Food insecurity can affect students in different ways, from sleeping hungry to worrying about how they will afford groceries while balancing tuition, housing, and textbooks. Those pressures can have a ripple academic effect, especially for students already facing barriers of coming from low income households and marginalized communities. 

After closing for about two years, Golden Thyme café and restaurant re-opened under the care of the Rondo Community Land Trust, a non-profit organization focused on the history of the Rondo community while preserving Black-owned businesses and strengthening economic opportunity in the neighborhood. 

The Center for Broadcast Journalism and Power 104.7 FM talked with Jamila Keisar, a Somali American licensed independent clinical social worker and founder of Keisar Counseling, to learn what she has been observing as a mental health practitioner since the descent of thousands of federal agents across the state. Keiser also shares tools to employ when feeling overwhelmed.

On the same day that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Gov. Tim Walz demanding access to Minnesota’s voter rolls as a condition to remove ICE agents from the state. 

A memorial at the site of the brutal killing of Alex Pretti. Photo by Harry Colbert, Jr. Humanity: humaneness; benevolence. Benevolence: the quality of being well meaning; kindness. If democracy is to return – let’s be very clear, in the U.S., it’s already fallen, and to say otherwise would be me abdicating my duty as a truthteller – but if the tide turns, it’s our humanity that will be the demise of this fascist regime. Yes, as a journalist I am breaking ranks and calling it