Previous owners of the land that Lake Harriet Lower School sits on added the racial covenants to land parcels when developing the Linden Hills neighborhood almost 100 years ago. When the c ovenants were brought to the attention of the Minneapolis school board, they wanted to act swiftly to discharge the documents.

More than 1,200 books were censored or removed from U.S. public school classrooms and libraries during the 2022-23 school year, compared to only 333 in the previous school year. Here's some perspective from a few of those authors themselves.

Jordan, of Ohio, will now try to unite colleagues from the deeply divided House GOP majorityaround his bid ahead of a floor vote, which could push to next week.

Ron Harris serves on the DNC executive committee and is Midwestern Caucus chair, positions that could help him attract backers and donations.

"I think it’s easy to feel like there is an existential threat looming on absolutely every quadrant of the horizon. And that’s certainly true. Now, when turning on the news, it is overwhelming heart-rending and demoralizing. And, yet, there have to be moments cut out of our day or our week to dance and to stay up late and to feel fully and unapologetically alive."

Luis Fitch presents eight large flags he’s designed, starting with a recreation of Minnesota’s original. With each one, he strips out another element, from the white settler and the Native man on horseback to the landscape, dates and even the blue background.

The author will talk about her newest books at Rain Taxi’s Minnesota Book Festival at the State Fairgrounds tomorrow. “The stories are the best of me. And the stories are the result of everything that happened.”