‘If you believe human beings are valuable, you wouldn’t shoot someone at all, let alone shoot them for a nonviolent offense.’
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Posted inArts + Culture, Music
Tory Lanez receives 10 Year prison sentence for shooting Megan Thee StallionÂ
The sentencing comes after a Los Angeles jury, in December, found Lanez guilty of all three charges linked to the July 2020 shooting in Hollywood Hills.
Posted inLocal & State, News
MN report amplifies concerns about guns, suicide link
For the second year in a row, suicides represent nearly 70% of all gun deaths in Minnesota.
Posted inLocal & State, News
MPD warns Lyft, Uber drivers to be alert after numerous carjackings
After numerous carjackings the Minneapolis Police Department has issued a citywide alert to warning to Uber and Lyft drivers to be alert.
Posted inHealth + Wellness
What we can and must do to mitigate our trauma
Trauma creates physical, psychological, or emotional harm and adverse effects on the individual and/or group’s ability to function.
Posted inOpinion
Silence from Minneapolis city leaders in response to community stress, trauma, and violence
City leaders need to hold themselves accountable to the promises they made to the community over a year ago…
Posted inOpinion
Murders on the rise in U.S. cities—opinions vary as to why
One survey of America’s larger cities found that between 2019 and 2020, homicide deaths rose more than 30%.
Posted inOpinion
Youth speak: students need more support
I am speaking from experience when I say that I did not have the support in school that I should have.
Posted inOpinion
Black internecine community violence and police violence spring from the same tree
Those who are opposed to our murder at the hands of the system are also opposed to death at the hands of one another. They are not mutually exclusive.
Posted inFeatured, Local & State, News
9-year-old girl struck by gunfire in Minneapolis dies after two-week fight for her life
Nine-year-old Trinity Ottoson-Smith died from her gunshot injuries on Thursday evening after having been shot on May 15.
Posted inFeatured, Local & State, News
Another day, another dead Black body
Historically, Minneapolis and other major cities have proposed solving the problem of violence in the Black community by employing more police. Yet so-called Black-on-Black violence persists.
Posted inOpinion
A nation divided
We don’t need future historians to look back to see what we already know: America is a split nation, and therefore, a dangerous nation.
Posted inOpinion
Violence in Black neighborhoods: Where are the schools?
In my last month column, I provided information straight from the mouths of gang members explaining their reasons for the continued shooting and violence that appears to have no real ending anytime soon. Sadly, each column that I write over the next 10 months could produce a comment on a recent murder of an intended […]
Posted inNews
Northsiders resist surge in gun violence
After several shootings in North Minneapolis during the month of April of this year, crime statistics show that violent crime has increased by 11 percent over last year at this time. If you think the residents of North Minneapolis are accepting this violence, then guess again. Saturday, June 4, from 10 am to 4 pm […]