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No More Excuses
Jan. 30 | Too many have sacrificed for us to give up now Most of the excuses we make up make it hard for our life on this earth. Everything that really matters we make excuses for: excuses why we won’t go to school, why we don’t listen to our parents, why...
Black History Month Calendar of Events
Jan. 29 | Black History Month Calendar of Events Through Wed., Feb. 6 Thursday, January 31 6:30-7:30 pm — My Soul Looks Back, Sumner Library, 611 Van White Mem. Blvd., Minneapolis Celebrate Black History Month with songs, poetry and stories that give...
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
Jan. 29 | This January 1 marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The original purpose for the document core to President Abraham Lincoln’s presidency may have been to free slaves, or it may have been solely a strategic move to...
Sports Authority Legislative Report, with Unequal Equity Plan, sent to legislature
Jan. 23 | It is an unintended but very real sad irony of history that on the birth date of Martin Luther King, Jr., January 15, the Vikings, the NFL, and the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA) sent its first annual report to the state legislature...
Northside pastors partner to increase number of Black homeowners
Jan. 16 | Habitat for Humanity focuses on eight-block N. Mpls area damaged by tornado By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Homeownership among Blacks on the Northside has been waning in recent years, first because of the mortgage foreclosure crisis,...
New Year resolutions: Protect children from violence, poverty
Jan. 9 | By Marian Wright Edelman Guest Commentator As New Year’s Eve countdowns wound down, many people turned to the familiar ritual of taking stock of where they are now to make resolutions for what they can do better in the new...
North Carolina NAACP statement on pardon of Wilmington 10
Jan. 9 | Today the spirit of justice was awakened in the capital of North Carolina. Governor Beverly Perdue signed a Pardon of Innocence for nine men and one woman known as The Wilmington 10. These young people were nonviolent protestors fighting...
Gypsies, Jews, Hmong and Blacks — diasporas of the unwanted
Jan. 9 | When I was a little girl, people would ask, “What nationality are you?” That is to say, to what tribe do I belong? What is my country of origin? Belonging is tribe, blood and culture, not necessarily territory and certainly not based on...
Media justice activists develop racial equity pledge
Dec. 12 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Nearly 50 persons attended “A Gathering for Media Justice” held last weekend at Hamline University for community members and local non-mainstream media representatives. Sponsored by Community Action...
