“City officials began clearing a south Minneapolis homeless encampment Tuesday morning,” according to the Minnesota Star Tribune, “hours after a shootout late Monday night left eight people injured — the second mass shooting that day on the city’s South Side.”

A Somali Minnesotan is aiming for the silver screen with his first international feature film. MPR News writes “Aleel Films founder Mohammed Sheikh said he wanted to be a filmmaker to combat false negative narratives of Somali people in mainstream media.”

Some metro area residents are doing their part to fight for better housing conditions. Sahan Journal says “a Minnesota law passed this year encourages tenants to form unions and penalizes landlords who retaliate by increasing the rent, evicting tenants or reporting immigrant tenan

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