More than 500 students, faculty and staff sat in the Anderson Student Center atrium for a BESA-organized protest on Oct. 25. Protesters sat in silence for about 20 minutes before five speakers presented.
St. Thomas tweeted Feb. 27 that it will not penalize students who were involved in protests about gun laws in the aftermath of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
Five St. Thomas students organized a walkout on March 14 as part of March for Our Lives, a national movement dedicated to student-led activism around ending gun violence.
Two St. Thomas students have a role in the Super Bowl halftime show, MSP expects record numbers, and police arrest activists blocking a Metro Transit route. Senior Reporter Lauren Andrego has today’s News in :90.
Seventeen players from the Augsburg football team joined the movement Colin Kaepernick started over a year ago, kneeling while the national anthem is played before a game.
One black student, Samantha Wells, found an anonymous note on her car windshield Saturday calling her a racial slur.
A Minnesota man and St. Thomas alum convicted in the shootings of five black men who were demonstrating against the police killing of a black man in Minneapolis has been sentenced to more than 15 years in prison.
Dozens of U.S. colleges are opposing President Donald Trump’s sweeping travel ban that has left some students and professors stranded abroad.
Protesters from the group 15 Now Coalition and other groups rallied for raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour Tuesday night outside Coffman Union in Minneapolis.
Anger, fear, and hope reverberated in chants echoed by thousands of protesters on Thursday night during a “Stop Trump” rally that culmninated in a standoff with police on Interstate 94.
St. Thomas senior Cari Monroe, an environmental studies major, is using what she has learned in the classroom to take a stand against the Dakota Access pipeline, which has been the subject of intense protests for months.
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — A police officer fatally shot a man in a car, and a woman in the vehicle apparently livestreamed the aftermath in a widely shared Facebook video that shows her telling the camera that her boyfriend had just been shot “for no apparent reason.” The shooting happened late Wednesday during a …
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Demonstrators marched through the streets of Minneapolis Thursday after the announcement not to charge two police officers involved in the fatal November shooting of Jamar Clark.
Protesters blocked access to a terminal and caused significant holiday traffic delays at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on Wednesday during a Black Lives Matter rally.
A man who allegedly shot at demonstrators protesting the killing of a black man by Minneapolis police was charged Monday with assault with a dangerous weapon and riot.
Allen Lawrence Scarsella, 23, of Lakeville, was charged in the Nov. 23 attack that left five protesters injured.
