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 bridge that would cap I-94 for several blocks. Construction of a land bridge would be

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 when highways were originally built through them. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has the

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. ST PAUL, Minn. — Depending on where you’re from, justice can mean many things. “Justice

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 community garden at the Rondo Commemorative Plaza site Saturday. Elected officials and people from all walks of

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 the city’s Black residents lived, worked, and worshiped. The tight-knit neighborhood thrived for decades, until

By Alex Chhith, Star Tribune. Originally posted May 10, 2021 Online sessions will gather community input.  A bridge proposal to reconnect a historically Black neighborhood in St. Paul is facing its next major test in two weeks when residents are asked to weigh in on the plan to build a

by Ben Piven, Aljazeera. Originally posted May 11, 2021 In the historically Black neighbourhood of Rondo in Saint Paul, Minnesota, community leaders hope US President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan will help promote ‘mobility justice’ 60 years after a highway destroyed people’s homes. In the United States, few places have recently faced

by Ashley Hackett, MinnPost. Originally posted May 5, 2021 The Reconnecting Communities Act would establish grants to address the “legacy of highway construction built through communities… that divided neighborhoods and erected barriers to mobility and opportunity.” After President Joe Biden introduced his infrastructure plan, which would invest about $2 trillion to rebuild

by The Associated Press. Originally posted February 3, 2021 Minnesota lawmakers on Tuesday heard a proposal that would construct a “land bridge” to reconnect a historically Black St. Paul neighborhood that was devastated in the 1960s to make way for Interstate 94, a project that advocates call an injustice with

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, leaders of the nonprofit Reconnect Rondo testified during a virtual House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee meeting (watch it