We are aware of a false narrative that Sequeerity has posted relating to their participation in assaults on queer and trans protesters. We are aware that they have posted a statement as soon as possible to control the narrative around their behavior this past Sunday.

This year, TC Pride coordinated with the violent and homophobic Minneapolis Police Department and also hired two private security firms to try to prevent the Take Back Pride march. fightbacknews.org/articles/tak...

Taking Back Pride 2025: MN queers fight back

Minneapolis, MN - On June 28 Taking Back Pride (TBP) took to the streets ahead of the Twin Cities Pride (TC Pride) parade. The activist...

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Come to our marshal training on Sunday, then marshal with us for our march on the 29th

Join us on the 29th before the parade to march and demand a Pride that fights for queer rights, chooses community over corporations, and honors Pride's roots as a rebellion against repressive cops.

Join us for a night of queer and environmental trivia on 6/7!

🏳️‍🌈 Taking Back Pride is kicking off this pride season with a night of music, fun, and community! Join us on May 31st for our kickoff party and help raise funds for our protest. Ticket presales are currently live- tickets are $15 presale, $20 at the door. See you there! 🏳️‍🌈

Join us for a press conference about WHY we take back pride, what our demands are for TC Pride, and our demands of solidarity with a variety of struggles that impact our community. We say NO to cops & corporations at Pride- Pride is for the people, not for profits or police!

Marsha P. Johnson was a black transwoman and a prominent figure in the Stonewall rebellion of 1969. Johnson was a member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and co-founded the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), alongside close friend Sylvia Rivera.

The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder, really, unless the victim is white. And it was only when the newspapers and magazines started carrying pictures and stories of white demonstrators being beaten and maimed by mobs and police that the public protested

Whatever your personal opinions and your insecurities about homosexuality and the various liberation movements among homosexuals and women (and I speak of the homosexuals and women as oppressed groups), we should try to unite with them in a revolutionary fashion.

"Racism and ethnic differences allow the power structure to exploit the masses of workers in this country, because that’s the key by which they maintain their control.” - Bobby Seale

In January 1969, the Free Breakfast for School Children Program was initiated at St. Augustine's Church in Oakland by the Black Panther Party. Pictured is Nancy Thompson a member of The Panthers who would cook and serve food to the poor inner city youth of the area.

Harry Belafonte was a great artist who blossomed in an era that also spawned Paul Robeson, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, and Sidney Poitier of the silver screen and stage.

The history of TCC4J began in the ingenious mind of Mel Reeves. Following the murder of Jamar Clark by MPD, it was Mel who had the idea to form a coalition. He had the foresight to see the torch would need to be carried for Jamar Clark long after the occupation of the 4th Precinct.

“We think [The George Floyd Rebellion] is deeper, we think it is the youth sounding the death knell of the racist police repression that stands like a blockade in the road to Black liberation.

In 1955, June Bacon-Bercey was the 1st African-American woman to get a degree in meteorology; she was America’s 1st woman TV meteorologist & the first woman & African-American given the American Meteorological Society’s Seal of Approval for tv weathercasting. #BlackHistoryMonth

The Green Book: In the mid-20th century, Victor Hugo Green published the Negro Motorist Green Book, a travel guide that helped Black travelers find safe accommodations, restaurants, and services during the era of segregation. #BlackHistoryMonth

"Our country’s national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob."

Syl Davis was a prominent organizer and activist in the Near North neighborhood of Minneapolis in the 1960s and 70s. In 1966, The Way, a non profit community center that centered Black Power and Black Liberation ideals, was founded, with Syl Davis as its first executive director.

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a leader of the anti-slavery movement in the North, editor of the abolitionist newspaper The North Star and, after the Civil War, a diplomat for the U.S. government.

James Baldwin and Steve Shapiro, in “The Fire Next Time,” Baldwin wrote a short letter to his 14 y.o. nephew on the 100 yr anniversary of the signing of the emancipation proclamation:

Angela Davis and Toni Morrison (1931-2019).Toni released her novel ‘Beloved’ in 1987. Based on the true story of a Black enslaved woman, the book was a Bestseller for 25 weeks and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

The Owls Club was a Black women's softball team formed in the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women's Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick's Stadium (later the site of the Kingdome). #BlackHistoryMonth