Month: December 2013

    The Minnesota Vikings’ final game in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome ironically ended in the same fashion as ...

    People have a huge thirst for connection. How well a song or an experience stays with you can ...

Favors ‘programs…informed by those affected whom we seek to empower’ Editor’s Note: In September, 2013, Darren Walker (DW) became the ...

  During the countdown to this Sunday’s Vikings-Detroit Lions season finale — the last game at the Hubert H. Humphrey ...

  The passing of Nelson Mandela left many of us with a paradox. The heads of U.S. and European imperialism ...

  Congratulations to the Rev. Jerry McAfee, newly elected president of the Minneapolis branch of the NAACP, and to the ...

  By Katherine Hough Contributing Writer   Working at the Breast Health Center and seeing how many African American women ...

For the past decade now, when this holiday season rolls around we can always count on a yearly kerfuffle from ...

  Dr. Crutchfield asks that we rerun this column from our March 21 issue as his favorite of the year.Watch ...

  What is abandonment? Often when we hear the word “abandon” we associate it with buildings that are vacant. Sometimes ...

By LaDonna Redmond Contributing Writer   It is easy to dismiss the environmental movement. It seems that so many of ...

Green household cleaning tips that save Benjamins           By Renee Barron Contributing Writer We live in ...

          Fight the Freeze With DJ Abilities, Carnage, Duenday, Cannaholics, Niles Miller, and King Fuvi. • Fri., ...

The local Black press continues to publish stories “from our own lens”   By Charles Hallman Staff Writer This year, 2013, ...

3DC becomes YouTube holiday sensation   By Mitchell Palmer McDonald Contributing Writer This holiday season, members of the hip-hop group ...

Superintendent disputes claims that schools are warehouses, mini-jails   Charles Hallman Staff Writer The Minneapolis School Board last week approved ...

Spotlight on the Gophers 100   There are approximately 100 African American and other student-athletes of color this school year ...

In recent years the Minneapolis City Conference has not received the attention it used to get in the 1980s, ‘90s, ...

Keith woke surprisingly refreshed. Hopped out of bed, went straight to make coffee, promising himself that soon as he was ...