Eamon Whalen is a freelance journalist from Minneapolis covering culture and politics, and a 2019 recipient of the 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship.
In the city’s first municipal election since the murder of George Floyd, activists and organizers are on ballot—and so is the future of the police department.
Since 2011, Tamara Lanier has been battling the university over the ownership of daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors. Her fight tells us a lot about the racist roots of American science and the need for reparations.