On Saturday and Sunday, April 24 and 25, The Current is hosting round eight of Sounds Like Home. This time around, Sounds Like Home will feature only artists from greater Minnesota — that is, artists who are based outside the Twin Cities metro area. Join an incredible lineup of Minnesota musicians as we meet up on the internet for a virtual festival. Great music lives here, and you can still enjoy it live on The Current’s YouTube channel or Facebook page!
Family and friends celebrated the 20-year-old’s life Thursday at his funeral alongside national civil rights leaders who came again to the Twin Cities to mourn another Black man killed by police.
- Remembering Daunte Wright' One of those kids that everybody looked up to'
The Minnesota House is working on a bill that limits police officers' authority to make traffic stops for minor issues, does more to flag problem officers, and increases transparency in critical investigations. But those measures are far from certain to reach the governor’s desk.
- On Capitol Hill Where efforts to overhaul policing stand in Congress after Chauvin verdict
The Justice Department will investigate police policies, training, supervision and use of force to see if there’s a pattern of unconstitutional or unlawful policing, including during protests, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday.
- Minnesota leaders Historic verdict just one step toward ‘true justice'
- 'An important step forward for justice' Reactions to Chauvin's guilty verdicts
- Photos Crowds cheer, celebrate after Chauvin convicted of murder and manslaughter
- At George Floyd Square Tears and relief sweep intersection where Floyd died
- What's next? For Chauvin and 3 other ex-officers in cases over Floyd's murder
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"I was just praying they would find him guilty," George Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, told reporters after exiting the courtroom.
- Photos Crowds cheer, celebrate after Chauvin convicted of murder, manslaughter
- As it braces for what's next South Minneapolis remembers a year of unrest
- Concrete barriers, chain-link fences, Nat'l Guard troops Minneapolis fortified after Chauvin guilty verdict
- At 38th and Chicago Tears and relief sweep intersection where George Floyd died
- Crowds across U.S. React with joy, wariness to verdict in Floyd's death
High school students across the state walked out of school Monday afternoon in a show of solidarity against racial injustice.
- Nick Brey, Gabriela Trapero and Briar Lenz This moment is ‘more than a trend’
- Muntaas Farah and Yezi Gugsa Teenagers lead the charge for equity in Rochester
- Voices of Minnesota Calls for change across the state
A Hennepin County jury on Tuesday found ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.
- MPR News The killing of George Floyd and trial of Derek Chauvin
The court system says a verdict has been reached in the Derek Chauvin murder trial and will be read in court between 3:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. MPR News will carry the announcement live on the air and online.
- Watch live Chauvin verdict to be read between 3:30-4 p.m.
- The jury What we know about the 12 jurors
A Minnesota political icon, Mondale rose to national prominence as a vice president and then as a presidential candidate. He once said he hoped Americans would remember him simply as a decent person who tried his best to do the right thing.
- Archive A collection of MPR News stories about Walter Mondale
- Joe Biden and Walter Mondale On the modern vice presidency
- Listen Walter Mondale on the role of the vice president
- Mondale remembered As effective policymaker, public servant
