In May of 1863, following the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln, hundreds of African Americans fled slavery on two steamboats provided by the military at Fort Snelling. What happened to these families after entering the same site where Dred Scott and dozens more were enslaved by the same U.S Military? Join [...]
Come by Longfellow Park and enjoy some pie! Join us for our annual General Membership Meeting! We will be honoring some of our amazing volunteers, talking with neighbors, and trying pie from some great local bakeries. This free event is open to the public and all are welcome. Watch our website for more information about [...]
Be a part of erasing racial covenants and writing a new future for your block, your neighborhood, and our city of Minneapolis, one deed at a time. Join a training session to learn about the work happening here in Greater Longfellow and how you can be involved! Find out the history of your deed and [...]
Come join us at Arbeiter Brewing Co. on Saturday, February 11th for Mittenfest. We're hosting free crochet and knitting demonstrations from Curiosity Studio (at 3pm and 5pm) with all supplies [...]
Be a part of erasing racial covenants and writing a new future for your block, your neighborhood, and our city of Minneapolis, one deed at a time. Join a training [...]
Come and hear directly from the candidates running to fill the open Ward 12 City Council seat! The event will be moderated by the outgoing Council Member Andrew Johnson. The [...]
As recipients of the Hennepin County Green Partners Grant, LCC and three community partners are building, painting, and installing Leopold benches in the community! Join us at Better Futures for the [...]
THIS EVENT AS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER. Join us for our first River Clean up of the year! We'll be at Mississippi River Gorge to clean up trash and [...]
As recipients of the Hennepin County Green Partners Grant, LCC and three community partners are building, painting, and installing Leopold benches in the community! Join us at Better Futures for the first part of this exciting project: bench building! We’ll be working together to build Leopold Benches for the Greater Longfellow Area. We highly encourage Black, [...]
As recipients of the Hennepin County Green Partners Grant, LCC and three community partners are building, painting, and installing Leopold benches in the community! Come join us and Black Table Arts for the second part of this exciting project: bench painting! We’ll be working together to paint and beautify the Leopold Benches built by our [...]
Join the working group of neighbors coming together to spread love and joy through art. Maybe you are an artist - or know an artist. Maybe you are a musician - or know a musician. Maybe you have a food truck - or love a food truck and want to see them at this event. [...]
Longfellow Community Council is thankful and energized to be a part of the community engagement efforts around the future site of the police building in the 3rd precinct as it is vital to bring residents, businesses and community organizations into the conversation and that we start the work of taking down the barbed wire and [...]
