Residents of St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood, which was torn apart when Interstate 94 was built in the 1960s, are continuing their years-long push to reconnect the predominantly Black neighborhood and right a wrong.  On Tuesday,

By Maury Glover, FOX 9. Originally published March 31, 2021. ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan has encouraging news for supporters of the Rondo Land Bridge project in St. Paul. Initially thought of

By Sharon Yoo, KARE 11. Originally published March 25, 2021. ST PAUL, Minn. — A neighborhood destroyed by an interstate is a story that’s not unique to St. Paul but one that bears repeating. “It was

By Myron Medcalf, Star Tribune. Originally published February 20, 2021. In the 1950s, Debbie Montgomery, a former St. Paul City Council member and the first woman hired by the St. Paul Police Department, watched her

By Robin Doyscher, The Hamline University Oracle. Originally published March 17, 2021. Decades after Interstate 94 ran itself through the Rondo neighborhood, a land bridge could be built to reconnect the neighborhood. The Rondo neighborhood

By Kea Wilson, Streets Blog USA. Originally published February 19, 2021. At the height of the urban renewal era, state and local governments across the country strategically routed highway projects through the heart of Black

By David Lamb, The Progessive. Originally published March 3, 2021. As H.R. 40 gathers dust in the U.S. Congress, St. Paul, Minnesota, becomes the latest city to join the national grassroots movement to make reparations

By EDITORIAL BOARD, Star Tribune. Originally published February 16, 2021. As part of America’s development of its highway system, Interstate 94 was routed through the Black community of Rondo in St. Paul in the 1960s,

By Charmaine Nero, KARE 11. Originally published February 4, 2021. ST PAUL, Minn. — “I was born and raised in Rondo,” says Marvin Anderson Anderson’s personal story mimics that of countless others. “It’s a story of

By Bill Lindeke, MinnPost. Originally published February 2, 2021. For years, advocates and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) have been engaged in a subtle game of three-dimensional advocacy chess. It centers on the central portion