ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota leaders are celebrating civil rights pioneer Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Here in Minnesota, we have a long tradition of advocacy and policy change," Minnesota Chief Equity Officer Ashley Oolman said. "So that's what we're here to celebrate the advancements that people have made on behalf of their community and others."

Members of the Democratic National Committee are due to vote Saturday on who will lead the party. After 2024 election, Democrats are regrouping.

On a summer day in 2021, the Minnesota Senate minority leader was lying in a ditch next to an upside down Jeep Cherokee and trying to reach Ken Martin. “Is Ken your husband?” a state trooper asked then-Sen.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 448 voting members of the Democratic National Committee will decide Saturday who will lead the Democratic Party, still reeling from a major 2024 loss, into the future to counter President Donald Trump.

MPR News politics editor and host Brian Bakst and his guests talk about the Democratic National Committee’s election of a new party chair and the Minnesotan who’s campaigning for the job. Later, a conversation with newly elected Minnesota Republican Party Chair Alex Plechash.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Republican Rep. Pete Stauber of Minnesota about congressional Republicans' role in legislating President Trump's agenda.

Martin is the longest serving chairman in Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party history, helming the state party since 2011. Under his leadership, the Minnesota DFL won every statewide election ...

PORTO, Portugal (AP) — Porto hired Martín Anselmi as coach with an immediate task of getting the two-time European champion into the knockout stage of the Europa League. Anselmi also will ...

Martin McDonagh has written 10 shows including The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Playwright), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Playwright), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Playwright), The Lonesome West ...

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Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. The protests he organized, the marches he led and the ...

A Hennepin County grand jury has indicted a Minneapolis man on first and second-degree murder charges in the January 2024 murder of Reid Johnson, who was found shot to death, his body stuffed into a garbage can in the garage of a vacant home.