Phillips

During the month of Ramadan, Saint Stephen’s Shelter served catered meals every weekday evening after sundown. The program, which benefited the 44 men staying at the homeless shelter, was sponsored by the Zakat Foundation of America, an Islamic charity based in Chicago. MORE »

by Allison Page • 10/2/08 • The Phillips neighborhood (comprised primarly of people of color and low-income households and including a federal superfund site for arsenic) provides a stunning example of what environmental justice means.

While I was on my way to Cub Foods to buy gifts for Eid, I got a call from a friend about the killing of yet another young Somali man. On September 29, Abdihshakur Adan Hassan became the sixth Somali man to be murdered in the metro area since December 2007. MORE »

On Saturday, ten women graduated from Waite House’s Mujeres en Liderazgo (Women in Leadership) program in a ceremony that took place at Pillsbury House in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis. The women, who come mostly from South Minneapolis but also from throughout the Metro area, celebrated finishing the program, which was divided into thirteen workshops and two months of community activities. MORE »