The University of Minnesota is establishing a fellowship in the name of one of the state's foremost civil rights leaders. The Josie Robinson Johnson fellowship will go to graduate students at the Humphrey School for Public Affairs who have specific interest in addressing racial inequities and injustices.

Emails transmitted through a government account between St. Louis County Commissioner Pete Stauber and a Republican campaign group should be public, a state agency has advised after the Star Tribune petitioned for access to the congressional candidate’s correspondence.