Month: April 2011

Blacks have had a rich swimming history dating back to pre-slavery days in Africa, but in this country fear and ...

Conclusion of a 3 part series: Last week we talked about two athletes whose overall contributions to society assisted the ...

TODAY'S ENTREPRENEUR By Ste Brown This is the third of several articles I am writing for the MSR. My spotlight ...

THROUGH MY EYES By Ron Edwards One of the rules of investigating corruption is to determine the level of the ...

MELLANEOUS By Mel Reeves Anyone who has been paying attention to the news of late couldn’t help but notice that ...

SOMETHING I SAID By Dwight Hobbes Minnesota Viking Adrian Peterson sustains America’s history of extraordinarily privileged Black men with no ...

LITTLE BY LITTLE By Matthew Little Yes! It was April 12, 1861 (exactly 150 years ago) when America suffered its ...

Robert’s 2400 County Road H2, Mounds View, 763-432-9696 or http://robertsoff10.com Fri., May 6, 10 pm (doors open at 8 pm): ...

ARTS, NO CHASER By Dwight Hobbes At Park Square Theatre, the historic To Kill a Mockingbird is distilled from Harper ...

Here’s a question I get often enough: “What are you listening to?” What I say may come as a surprise. ...

By Charles Hallman Staff Writer The Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) recently released a study concluding that the district leadership structure ...

By Vickie Evans-Nash Contributing Writer On March 9, Governor Mark Dayton swore in 15 new Metropolitan Council members. The council, ...

By Charles Hallman Staff Writer -Photos by Charles Hallman Drowning is the second-leading cause of unintentional death in the United ...

By Stephani Maari Booker Community Editor -Photo by Misha Oneby Fox News’ Sean Hannity dismissed the 12th Annual White Privilege ...

This Easter weekend we continue the celebration of Carol Fitzgerald with the Seventh Annual benefit weekend. Carol died April 10, ...

-Photos by Charles Hallman PHILADELPHIA — I watched the Philadelphia 76ers last week play their last regular season contest and ...

DAVID HICKS (St. Thomas Academy) quietly led Long Island University to NCAA men’s basketball’s last tournament last month. While much ...

Part two of a three-part series: In DR. COLUMBUS SALLEY’s informative book The Black 100: A Ranking of the Most ...

By Vickie Evans-Nash Contributing Writer On Tuesday, April 12 at Brooklyn Park Evangelical Free Church, a group of Brooklyn Park ...

By Charles Hallman Staff Writer -Illustration by Chris Harrison A systematic pattern of firing Blacks or targeting them for eventual ...