An eerie silence has settled over our Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, a silence shattered only by all too often incidents of gunfire and general mayhem.

Dusty Baker, second most winning active manager in Major League Baseball, as of the writing of this column, is the only African American manager in Major League Baseball (of 30 Major League Baseball mangers, 29 are White).

The love affair with Mike Freeman on the March 31st Star Tribune editorial pages is based on the belief he’s being truthful.

The name of Jerome Copeland was first made known to the public two weeks ago in this column with his permission.

Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. will call the shots Black Lives Matter Minneapolis (BLM) and the Minneapolis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), on April 4, 2016, called for Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman to reconsider his decision not to convene a grand jury in the police-involved killing […]

Jamar Clark is now well known nation-wide, due to his tragic death at the hands of police, November 15, 2015. It has now been announced that the county attorney will not charge the two White police officers involved in his death.

It is chilling to see that the U.S. government views local Somali Americans as acceptable “collateral damage” in their pursuit of “terror suspects.” The government uses the tweeted death threats against the FBI agents and a federal judge that came from 20-year-old Khaalid Abdulkadir as an excuse to terrorize his family. When the FBI stormed […]

Donald Trump is an excellent salesman and showman who mimics the anger voters have at the failed promises of the Washington, D.C. establishment, as he plays to the “we aren’t going to take it any more” voters.

There has not been a single article or editorial in the Star Tribune about the dangers White supremacists pose to our society, but there has been a continued parade of articles and editorials about the dangers the five Somali American men in local jails pose to our society.

The consequences of the musical chairs by the county and the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) into the death of Jamar Clark continues.

We are ready once again for prepared excuses to explain another bad University of Minnesota (UM) basketball season, especially the men’s program under Coach Richard Pitino, which continues its free fall. This year I purposely remained silent.

Donald Trump, leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, is a lighting rod across the country. Trump plays both sides against the middle in his search for a wider net of voters, pretending ignorance of White supremacists, like Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

You can also set goals for the immediate short term, such as for each day or each week. If there’s a certain task that you’d like to get done by the end of the day or the end of the week, make it a goal and work out how you can achieve that goal and what you need to do.

When the Minneapolis NAACP and Black Lives Matter Minneapolis announced to the world they were not only there at the very moment of Jamar Clark’s death but had videos of it, I wondered.