Minnesota legalizes same-sex marriage

May. 15 |     But my same-sex marriage was real before the law passed       By Stephani Maari Booker Contributing Writer   Instead of attending to the novel I was supposed to be working on, I spent the afternoon in front of the TV...

Local art star leads evening of creative, collaborative fun

Apr. 3 |   By Stephani Maari Booker Contributing Writer   Ta-coumba Aiken turned an audience into an artistic collective at a Feb. 28 “An Evening with tpt’s MN Original” event held at the Minnesota Humanities Center in St. Paul. The St. Paul-based...

From Floetry to rebirth: Natalie ‘Floacist’ Stewart walks an independent road to artistic excellence

Feb. 13 | A music review By Stephani Maari Booker Contributing Writer   Natalie Stewart, a.k.a. “The Floacist,” has been forging a fiercely independent musical path since Floetry, the duo she formed with Marsha Ambrosius, broke up in 2006. Stewart...

Les Nubians bring more of their joyous revolution to Mpls

Jun. 20 |   A CD review By Stephani Maari Booker Associate Editor   I’ve been a fan of Hélène and Célia Faussart, two French sisters of Cameroonian descent known as Les Nubians, since their first U.S. hit “Makeda” in 1998, a paean to the...

Hiding in plain sight: Black women in chemistry

Jan. 18 |   By Stephani Maari Booker Community Editor   Jennette E. Brown has made uncovering and spreading the history — indeed, the existence — of African American women in the chemistry field her mission for the past decade. Her new book, African...