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Vikings bounce back, beat Cardinals 21-14
Oct. 24 | Seven games into the 2012 season, the Vikings forged forward with a 21-14 hard-fought win over the Arizona Cardinals. Minnesota is now 5-2 and remained undefeated at home at 4-0. Sunday’s Mall of America Field sellout crowd of 61,068 was...
Vikings stadium officials promise 32 percent diversity hiring!
Oct. 17 | But no one seems to have a copy of the equity plan At a small, special meeting I attended at the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) Wednesday, October 10 that included MSFA Chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgen and Executive Director...
Taxation without representation
Oct. 10 | Force of contract law needed to ensure Black contractors/workers for stadium Action: $34 million contract awarded September 28, 2012, by the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (FSFA) and the Minnesota Vikings, their largest stadium...
Tone down the rhetoric on Black museum’s money problems
Sep. 12 | Who would ever say that the legendary and renowned Dorothy Bridges would be involved in harming her legacy and imprint on a community bank, Franklin National Bank, which has done so much for the African American community under her leadership? Thus...
Status quo fixes won’t stop the frightening violence
Sep. 5 | It is the elephant in the room that people don’t want to talk about: the ongoing street violence affecting so many African Americans in this country due to the dysfunctional institutions, leadership and policies that allow caste-like barriers...
Where is Thinh Q.N. Tran? — Supposed business associate of Eric Mahmoud disappears with fraud case
Aug. 29 | The cascading unraveling of the schemes of Eric Mahmoud, reported in three recent stories in the Star Tribune (August 10, 20, and 22, 2012), began in Atlanta in 2005 and again in Minneapolis in 2010. On April 21, 2010, District Court Judge...
In Twin Cities, Blacks still need not apply
Jul. 11 | “Twin Cities Still Worst in U.S. for Black Jobseekers” (Star Tribune headline, July 2, 2012). “New report shows little change from 2009 unemployment rates.” — Economic Policy Institute. That is a repeat of the June 18, 2010 report...
Trailblazer Chavers an early beneficiary of Title IX
Jun. 20 | Editor’s note — June marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon signing Title IX into law on June 23, 1972. Ever since, the law has been lauded for increasing the numbers of girls and women participating in sports...
Heat again lead NBA Finals 2-1
Jun. 20 | MIAMI — Not many teams win NBA Finals games shooting 37 percent. However, the Miami Heat have rallied; after droppinggame one of the Finals 105-94, the Heat have taken a two-games-to-one lead by calming the Oklahoma City Thunder in...
