Another unseasonably warm front blows into Minnesota Thursday. Highs will reach well into the 50s in southwestern Minnesota and should reach 50 degrees in the Twin Cities Thursday. Milder-than-normal weather remains in place through the weekend. Get the latest weather news on Updraft.
Coming up on Morning Edition: The death of Tou Ger Xiong has hit Minnesota and the country's Hmong community hard. He was killed while visiting South America. Xiong was a story teller, activist and leader in his community. His friends and colleagues say they'll miss his passion and charisma.
Coming up at 9 a.m.:Designer and entrepreneur Houston White has a singular vision: to create a vibrant Black middle class in Minneapolis. On Tuesday night, MPR News’ Angela Davis hosted an intimate North Star Journey Live event with White and a few of his friends who are helping him make his vision reality.
Tune in Thursday morning to hear why White believes a vibrant Black middle class is crucial to Minneapolis being able to attract and retain young, Black professionals and how Camdentown could be an example of how to close the racial gaps in housing and wealth that plague our state.
The holiday season is always a busy one for the nation’s mail carriers. But some Minnesota mail carriers say they’re being overworked as the Post Office takes on more business than it can handle.
Two anonymous Minnesota mail carriers talked to MPR News about the problems they have been encountering and the 14-hour days they often work.
Political organizers and supporters of Minneapolis’s unsheltered population marched Tuesday evening from the site of the Wall of Forgotten Natives — a now-closed encampment — to Camp Nenookaasi, an existing camp the city plans to tear down.
The city initially said the camp would shut down Thursday, but earlier on Tuesday afternoon, the city granted the camp a five-day extension. Tuesday evening, a 45-year-old man was fatally shot inside the camp. A city spokesperson said Wednesday the plan to close the camp has not changed, and it plans to clear the camp just before the Christmas holiday.
Marvin Haynes walked out of a Stillwater prison on Monday a free man. A judge had vacated his conviction for which he was serving a life sentence. He received the news on his birthday after a nearly 20 year long fight to prove his innocence.
He had been convicted of murder in a 2004 killing of a flower shop owner in Minneapolis despite no physical evidence linking him to the crime. He joined All Things Considered with Tom Crann on Wednesday.
What else we're watching:
Art Hounds: Opera, a cappella and theater. A cappella group Johnson Street Underground entertains audiences at their holiday concert this Saturday at Winona Arts Center. New Native Theatre’s play “A Christmas in Ochopee” runs through this weekend. Skylark Opera Theatre stages “The Gift of the Magi” in St Paul.
