By Kathryn Nelson, Star Tribune, March 13, 2008. (PDF)
The parents of the Ramsey International Fine Arts Center Foundation have donated
more than $280,000 to their school in south Minneapolis in the past dozen years.
That still wasn't worth the aggravation to school officials.
In a rare move, the Minneapolis School District sent a letter to the foundation, telling its
leaders not to contact school staff, administration or the principal about fundraising
By Kathryn Nelson, Star Tribune, March 13, 2008. (PDF)
Politicians, artists and concertgoers are banding together at First Avenue tonight to buy
new instruments for a Minneapolis school.
The nonprofit Vega Productions is holding "A Night for Lyndale Elementary," featuring
performances by four bands, artist Chuck Hues and guest appearances by U.S. Sen.
Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and state Sen. Linda Berglin, DFL-Minneapolis. Fox 9 news
By Kathryn Nelson, Star Tribune, March 5, 2008. (PDF)
On Tuesday evening, Stephen Feinstein was doing what he often did, giving a speech
about the Holocaust. This one was at the Sabes Foundation Minneapolis Jewish Film
Festival in Hopkins.
Suddenly he was at a loss for words. He was taken to Abbott Northwestern Hospital in
Minneapolis, where he later died. He was 64.
An international outpouring of grief has greeted the death of the world-renowned historian
By Kathryn Nelson, Star Tribune, February 19, 2008. (PDF)
Lying stomach down around the green square mat, two dozen boys anxiously watch their
teammates spar inside the ring. With each blast of the buzzer, they cover their ears and
let out a loud yelp, then wait until the room quiets for the next match. Inside the ring,
Coach Chandell Knox tells two boys wearing red and green anklets to keep pinning,
By Kathryn Nelson, The Minnesota Daily, January 31, 2008. (PDF)
It is our responsibility to understand and act upon these horrific injustices that are occuring in Kenya.
By Kathryn Nelson, The Minnesota Daily, October 08, 2007. (PDF)
Second-place winner of the National Diversity Award 2008 from the Associated Collegiate Press.
This is the final edition in a five- part series.
When I left for Kenya, I believed that I would change the country more than it would me. I couldn't have been more wrong.
By Kathryn Nelson, The Minnesota Daily, October 1, 2007. (PDF)
Second-place winner of the National Diversity Award 2008 from the Associated Collegiate Press.
As a white Western female living in Kenya, you sometimes feel that you're immune to the violence that afflicts everyone around you.
But it was only when I was confronted with such violence that I truly became a woman of this country, when a man attempted to sexually assault me inside his Kenyan home.
By Kathryn Nelson, The Minnesota Daily, September 17, 2007. (PDF)
Second-place winner of the National Diversity Award 2008 from the Associated Collegiate Press.
This is the second edition of an ongoing series. Look for the third edition in next Monday's Daily.
By all accounts, Kevin Masengeli was born a normal child. But his possession began one year later and by his sixth birthday, he went down.
That's what his grandmother, Norah Nasambu told me at the hospital.
By Kathryn Nelson, The Minnesota Daily, September 10, 2007. (PDF)
Second-place winner of the National Diversity Award 2008 from the Associated Collegiate Press.
This is the first edition of an ongoing series. Look for the second edition next monday.
There's no real beginning or end to my story of Africa. The memories of my two months there have bled into every part of my existence and are completely inescapable.
By Kathryn Nelson, The Minnesota Daily, April 3, 2007. (PDF)
Atem Aleu stood quietly to the side as a crowd milled around the art gallery, taking in the paintings that had traveled thousands of miles from Kenya to Minneapolis.
Aleu's quiet demeanor shows experience far beyond his 26-year-old body. He saw the majority of his family perish in Sudan's ongoing civil war and is revered as a leader in the country he left behind.
