‘History’ Archives
Fire and Ice
By HARVEY WINJE December 20th -- Now in its second year, the Winter Solstice Lantern Parade brought light and delight to South Minneapolis on the longest night of the year. Community lantern making workshops and the parade event are organized by Phillips’ own Semilla Center for the Arts and Barebones Puppets, along with In the Heart of the Beast Theatre, and Artstart. PHOTO: Laura Hulscher This Wendell Phillips quote was a response to a friend, Brother May, who had asked, “Wendell, why are you so on fire?” after a fervent speech against the moral outrage of slavery. Phillips’s reply highlights the immense challenge he and other abolitionists faced in changing the deep-seated apathy, indifference, and resistance to their cause. The “fire” represented his passion and moral clarity, while the “mountains of ice” symbolized societal inertia and opposition to abolishing slavery.There is societal inertia and opposition to “Peace if possible, Justice at any [...]
Monthly Update: Phillips Community Oral History Project
By PHILLIPS COMMUNITY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT PARTNERS Welcome back to the Phillips Community Oral History Project monthly updates. This column is an important part of the project’s outreach to the Phillips community. It is intended to share key progress milestones and to remain accountable to the people of Phillips. After several months of interviews (which are still ongoing), the Project has taken steps to transcribe many of them, bringing us closer to making these stories public and giving them a permanent home. The process begins with an automated transcription service, but Project staff and volunteers put considerable effort into matching the text with residents’ actual speech, and adding timestamps for future reference.Along with a more permanent digital home for these oral interviews, we plan to share even more of that content in these Alley updates. As we’ve gotten the interviews and transcription underway, the content we have shared from these interviews has been [...]
Monthly Update: Phillips Community Oral History Project
By PHILLIPS COMMUNITY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT PARTNERS Welcome back to the Phillips Community Oral History Project monthly update. The update is an important part of the Project’s outreach to the Phillips Community intended to share key progress milestones and to remain accountable to the people of Phillips. Project interviews continue, with over ten hours of video and audio recorded so far! According to Ella Kampelman of Phillips West, the initial list of interview subjects has been mostly completed, and the project is now expanding to “a slightly wider circle of interviewees.” This broader reach will be critical to a more complete story of Phillips. People who are interested in contributing to that story are encouraged to reach out to us at the email provided at the bottom of the update. J Randolph, executive director of Phillips West Neighborhood Organization, has been heartened by the community connections people have expressed in their interviews. Randolph said, “We [...]
