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When will MN’s ‘no Black workers need apply’ policy end?
Mar. 13 | Who will monitor and enforce Black participation on the so-called ‘People’s Stadium’ project? My concern is for the ending of the discrimination patterns and practices that prevent access for Black men and women to the opportunities...
Gentlemen of the Round Table ready to work on People’s Stadium
Mar. 6 | Sometime in late March of 2013, an African American construction trade association, Gentlemen of the Round Table, will be looking forward to its meeting with the Sports Facilities Authority to present its members’ credentials qualifying...
The legacy of Marvin “Corky” Taylor — Rest in peace, Black Warrior, one of the Honest Five who refused to lie
Feb. 27 | Marvin “Corky” Taylor was recognized by NERA (National Economic Research Associates) for his contributions to the completion of NERA’s October 21, 2010 report to the City of Minneapolis on the City’s purposeful failure to meet its diversity,...
Will Blacks finally get a fair share of work on this stadium?
Feb. 20 | Chair of stadium authority raises serious questions about past inclusion Michele Kelm-Helgen, chairwoman of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority (MSFA), who oversees design and construction of the Vikings’ “People’s Stadium,”...
Blacks have a different agenda from Whites on gun control
Feb. 20 | Let me state what’s important to African Americans on the gun issue. White Americans who have invented the Black boogieman will never give up their guns that they feel will protect them from the American Black uprising, which has always been a myth,...
President Obama’s visit to discuss gun violence disappoints
Feb. 14 | What joy and excitement energized the Black community, individuals and organizations alike, anticipating seeing and meeting the first African American president, Barrack Obama, in North Minneapolis when he was in town Monday, February 4 to make...
So much for 32 percent Black participation in stadium construction — When will the State deposit its $50M statutory requirement?
Feb. 6 | Vikings People’s-no-new-taxes stadium is unraveling for the African American community. “It’s ours” ballyhoo regarding Minnesota has become “it’s mine” for NFL, the Wizard of Oz behind the Vikings’ curtain. • 32 percent...
Let the games begin: the selection of stadium construction manager — Fraser, Davis and Tomlin: quota guys in the NFL?
Jan. 30 | The push-Black-Americans-in-football-to-the-back-of-the-bus games have begun, raising “Blacks need not apply” signs not only for stadium construction jobs but also NFL team head-coaching jobs. This is not about quotas. It is about statistical...
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...
