Month: February 2013

Power, politics, and policy and the influence they have over African American people   Abraham Lincoln once stated, “Nearly all ...

One day I looked in the mirror and I just did not see all the changes I had been working ...

Despite Minnesota’s significant progress reducing heart-related deaths, heart disease is still Minnesota’s second-leading cause of death, claiming thousands of lives ...

Toro Y Moi w/Sinkane & Dog Bite Wed., Feb. 20, 8 pm: 18+ Fine Line Music Café 318 1st Ave. ...

  Why is it that we Blacks must often wait for the shortest month each year to be honored, to ...

By Charles Hallman Staff Writer     The Minneapolis Fire Department last month began its first firefighters’ class in seven ...

Diversity director Kirkpatrick ‘really proud’ of accomplishments   By Dwight Hobbes  Contributing Writer     The Metropolitan Council has been ...

    Keith Porter has found a way around today’s affordable housing crisis. He saves a bundle by forgoing a ...

    Program recreates Black neighborhood of past for MN youth     By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Minnesota History Center Program ...

    Vikings People’s-no-new-taxes stadium is unraveling for the African American community. “It’s ours” ballyhoo regarding Minnesota has become “it’s ...

    When one compares the 1968 Kerner Commission Report, which chronicled the problems that Black folks were experiencing in ...

  First of all, our greatest gift to America is our humble humanity. Black people, we are in deep trouble ...

    How many times have you seen Lance Armstrong defined as a “disgrace”? For me, I’ve seen it enough. ...

Cody Chesnutt Thurs., Feb. 7, 8 pm  18+ Triple Rock Social Club 629 Cedar Ave., Mpls. 612-333-7399 or www.triplerocksocialclub.com Universally ...

  By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   Eliaichi Kimaro’s need to fully understand her father’s culture later transformed a legacy ...

      DeLaSalle Girls’ Basketball Coach Faith Johnson-Patterson will receive the Special Merit Award at the Minnesota State Capitol ...

Welcome to Black History Month 2013. This is a month to enjoy and celebrate the legacy of our ancestors and ...

    NEW ORLEANS — Strange things have been known to occur in New Orleans: beads flowing from balconies, Mardi ...

    Baseball each year is like that groundhog that supposedly predicts how long winter will last. It reminds us ...