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Civil Rights Icon Bettie Mae Fikes Commemorates Bloody Sunday with Soulful Tribute

Students, faculty and staff alike sat in awe as the sound of Bettie Mae Fikes' voice swept over the 60 listeners in the room Jan. 30 during the 60th Anniversary Jubilee of the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Ala. Fikes, known as the Voice of Selma, has been involved in Black Freedom activism since she was a teenager, including the Bloody Sunday march with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. across Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge.State troopers and local residents on March 7, 1965, attacked unarmed protes...
Mesabi Tribune •

Proposed funding would boost mental health and outdoor programs for Minnesota veterans

Nathan Burr, a member of the Minnesota National Guard, went to a resort near Ely called Veterans on the Lake for the first time in 2019 to reconnect with his wife and two young children, fresh from a year-long deployment in the Middle East .

“I’ve done four deployments but only one with kids, and it’s a completely different thing,” Burr said.

A year later, Burr heard the organization that runs the resort needed board members, and after conferring with his wife, decided to give back to the organization after a stay that had meant so much to him and his family.
The Minnesota Daily •

How Minnesota keeps its Scandinavian heritage alive

When Swedish, Norwegian and Danish immigrants first set foot in Minnesota, they came for the promise of land and opportunity, but they remained determined to preserve their culture and traditions. Nearly 150 years later, Scandinavian cultural centers are living proof of how early settlers shaped Minnesota’s identity.Today, about 43% of Minnesotans who reported multiple ancestry identify as Scandinavian, according to the 2023 American Community Survey. Evidence of the state’s Scandinavian roots i...
The Minnesota Daily •

Senior citizens practice lifelong learning at UMN

The Senior Citizen Education Program (SCEP) at the University of Minnesota allows Minnesota residents age 62 or older to audit courses for free or pay a $20 administrative fee per credit, according to One Stop’s website.The program was implemented after a 1975 statute was passed — and since updated — requiring state-supported universities and colleges in Minnesota to allow senior citizens to enroll in courses based on available space after all tuition-paying students were accommodated. The statu...
The Minnesota Daily •

Protest tensions echo 1985 fight for South Africa divestment

Mistrust in administration, protesters facing off with police and the Board of Regents declining to divest from a foreign country may sound familiar to both current students and 1980s alumni.University of Minnesota President Rebecca Cunningham presented the University’s plan for “systemwide planning for civic engagement” for the fall semester at a special Board meeting on Aug. 27, wherein the Board adopted “institutional neutrality” with its endowment investments. Cunningham said the University...
The Minnesota Daily •

How social media fueled the flames of Iran’s women’s rights revolution

Since the death of Mahsa Jini Amini in 2022, Iranian women have led a women’s rights movement to advocate for gender equality and the expansion of women’s rights in Iranian society, which has gained global attention for its effective usage of social media.On Sept. 16, 2022, 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Jina Amini died in the custody of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police. Despite Iranian officials saying she died of preexisting health conditions, her family maintains she wa...

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