By Nina Moini, MPR. Photos by Nicole Neri for MPR News. Originally published March 16, 2022. The break room inside of Taste of Rondo Bar and Grill overlooks a well-traveled portion of Interstate 94 in St. Paul.

By Sheila Mulrooney Eldred, Sahan Journal. Photo by Ben Hovland. Originally published March 31, 2022. Marvin Roger Anderson was 8 years old when he heard the question for the first time: “What are we going to do

By Katie Galioto, Star Tribune. Photo by Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune. Originally published February 25, 2022. Those who grew up in St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood remember it as a vibrant, tight-knit community — the type of place

By Angela Davis and Maja Beckstrom. Photo by Derek Montgomery for MPR News File. Originally aired May 5, 2022. More than a generation ago, the construction of Interstate 94 dug a deep trench through the

By Zoë Jackson, Star Tribune. Photography by David Joles, Star Tribune. Originally posted July 5, 2021 Advocates have spent 12 years planning a way to reconnect Rondo. While walking through his Rondo neighborhood in St.

By Margie O’Loughlin, Monitor St. Paul. Originally posted May 12, 2021 ReConnect Rondo (RCR) is leading the effort to revitalize St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. The non-profit organization and its partners propose building a community land

By Fred de Sam Lazaro, PBS Newshour. Originally posted May 26, 2021 President Joe Biden has proposed using some of the $2 trillion of his infrastructure plan to repair harm done to America’s minority communities

By Charmaine Nero, KARE 11. Originally published May 24, 2021. “George Floyd and all of these African American men whose lives have been taken have shined a light on the basements of America,” says Marvin Anderson.

By Deevon Rahming, KARE 11. Originally published June 19, 2021. ST PAUL, Minn. — St. Paul-based home improvement nonprofit, Rebuilding Together Twin Cities, received a $150,000 National Neighborhood Promise Grant from the Republic Services.  The organization dedicated a

By Cinnamon Janzer, Next City. Originally posted June 23, 2021 Since the late 1800’s, St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood was a thriving Black community. Churches, businesses, schools, and homes all coalesced into a neighborhood where the majority of