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Posts tagged with "Lissa Jones"
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...
Chasing the tornado money
Jul. 11 | By Charles Hallman Staff Writer and Jerry Freeman Senior Editor Almost immediately after the tornado struck North Minneapolis in May 2011, the Minneapolis Foundation established its Minnesota Helps Fund and raised $1,756,060...
Waste disposal poses pollution threat to Northsiders
Apr. 11 | News Analysis By Lissa Jones Contributing Writer Proposals are currently under consideration to significantly increase emissions from Minneapolis polluters that have a disproportionate impact on low-income...
From tragedy comes a demand for change
Apr. 11 | The murder of Trayvon Martin is a horrible reality that the people of the village are almost desensitized to, as murder isn’t an anomaly for too many of us. At the same time, like the deaths of Malcolm and Martin, Trayvon’s...
Wake up! We’re still invisible!
Mar. 28 | “There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.” – Fannie Lou Hamer Last night’s “Urban Agenda” radio show was one of those that unfolds as it is in motion, a potpourri...
Our history is the shield of our resistance
Feb. 22 | A month or so ago, a wonderful woman reached out to me on Facebook to invite me to a screening of the new documentary Slavery by Another Name. It so happened that I saw the chance to preview it tonight as I was thinking about what to offer...
Book shines with stories of the Great Migration of Blacks to the North
Feb. 15 | A book review By Lissa Jones Contributing Writer The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Random House, 2010) is authored by Isabel Wilkerson, the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer...
What you can do to preserve Black history — and why you should
Feb. 8 | ”When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his ‘proper place’ and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the...
Women ADVANCE to take the lead
Jan. 25 | A primarily Black Urban Women’s Movement is officially launched By Vickie Evans-Nash Contributing Writer On Saturday, January 21, approximately 200 people — overwhelmingly women, predominantly African American, with...
