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U of M honors late MSR senior sportswriter
Feb. 14 | Kwame McDonald was highly regarded as educator, activist and friend to many By Charles Hallman Staff Writer The University of Minnesota men’s basketball team honored the late Kwame McDonald during halftime of Sunday’s Gophers-Illinois...
The illusion of racial progress
Feb. 13 | By Dr. Luke Tripp Guest Commentator What appears to be racial progress in America is largely an illusion. Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored for his great contribution to the struggle for human rights and social justice in America. He was assassinated...
The struggle continues — Obama is not proof of a post-racial society
Feb. 6 | When one compares the 1968 Kerner Commission Report, which chronicled the problems that Black folks were experiencing in just about every walk of life at the time, and the misery index for Black folks today, one finds that the lot of...
Letter to the Editor: A call for 21st century Black consciousness
Feb. 6 | First of all, our greatest gift to America is our humble humanity. Black people, we are in deep trouble with our Afro-American ideology. The responsibility of a community concerns everybody living in that community, whether you are rich or...
Does Black love exist?
Feb. 6 | Welcome to Black History Month 2013. This is a month to enjoy and celebrate the legacy of our ancestors and encourage the development of future leaders. This is a time of not only celebration, but also a time to embrace the greatness of being Black....
Minister celebrates his 105th birthday — Reverend Smith describes himself as a ‘late bloomer’
Jan. 30 | By Jamal Denman Contributing Writer On Saturday, January 19, Wayman AME Church in North Minneapolis played host to a glorious event that celebrated the 105th birthday of Reverend Noah Spencer Smith. The church was filled with...
Is doll-hanging incident a result of ignorance or callousness?
Jan. 30 | Someone once said that “the problem with the past is it’s not quite past.” Ironically, the hanging of a Black doll and the dragging of it through school at Minneapolis Washburn was a reminder that the past is not quite past us in our...
Ravens vs. 49ers an all-Harbaugh Super Bowl
Jan. 30 | NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans braces for Super Bowl XLVII, the first Super Bowl in that city since the horrific storm Hurricane Katrina. This is the 10th time the NFL has brought the world stage of the Super Bowl to New Orleans; the last Super...
St. Paul City Conference race wide open and rife with ironies
Jan. 30 | DION BRADLEY, the 5-10 scoring machine from St. Paul Highland Park, continues to amaze. The senior scored 32 points in leading the Scots to a surprising 85-75 victory over City Conference leader Central. The victory not only put Highland...
