Penumbra exceeds fundraising goal: Programming resumes this spring
January 7, 2013, St. Paul, MN ā Over 1,400 individuals, corporations and foundations donated $359,000 by December 30, 2012 ...
Month: January 2013
Black History Month Calendar of Events
Black History Month Calendar of Events Through Wed., Feb. 6 Ā Thursday, January 31 Ā 6:30-7:30 pm ā My Soul ...
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
This January 1 marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The original purpose for the document core to ...
Purchase a 2014 Minnesota Black History Calendar
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Obama presidency gives African Americans hope for āa more perfect unionā
By Vickie Evans-Nash Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON, D.C. ā Over 800,000 people were in attendance on the National Mall for ...
Inaugural evoked spirit of āWe the peopleā joined in common cause
By Charles Hallman Staff Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. ā Barack Obama, who became the third consecutive U.S. ...
MLK Day march covered broad spectrum of human-rights issues
By Jerry Freeman MSR Senior Editor Over 100 people braved below-zero temperatures Monday, Jan. 21, to march ...
āFierce urgencyā stressed at MLK Breakfast
Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Childrenās Defense Fund, told nearly 2,000 people attending the 23rd annual Dr. ...
Second Chance advocates āmake some noiseā on the Hill
When Sarah Walker first lobbied the Minnesota Legislature on behalf of former offenders, she didnāt see it going over very ...
Ten steps to setting an example for 2013: Modeling is the key!
Welcome to 2013 ā the holidays have come to a close. Congratulations for making it to another new year. ...
More than ever, we need to resurrect the spiritual teachings of our Ancestors
āWe are in trouble as a Peopleā is a statement that I hear many times over the course ...
The power of informational interviews
As a career changer, I can say that I owe much of my career transition success to informational interviewing. ...
This week’s Entertainment spotlights
Aida Through Sun., Jan. 27, Ā 7:30 pm Pantages Theatre 710 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. www.hennepintheatretrust.org/ Aida is a contemporary spin on ...
Donāt fall for the ādeceptionā: Lack of Blacks on TV still a āscandalā
Meagan Good (Deception) and Kerry Washington (Scandal) are two Black women who are starring in their respective prime-time dramas. LL ...
Sports Authority Legislative Report, with Unequal Equity Plan, sent to legislature
It is an unintended but very real sad irony of history that on the birth date of Martin Luther King, ...
Election fraud: Why it didnāt work this time
As Inauguration Day for President Barack Obama neared, it was hard not to recall the voter fraud of 2000 and ...
The N-word unchained: Film controversy calls for some education
By Charles W. Davidson Guest Commentator By now, movie-goers across the country are embroiled in heavy social media ...
Letter to the Editor: Honoring our community leaders
I am honoring the late Evelyn Eubanks as my local hero. For those of you who never had ...
Rooney Rule misnamed ā should be called Rooney Ruse
The NFLās Rooney Rule that mandates teams looking for a new head coach to interview at least one Black ...
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