Month: September 2013

            By Benjamin Todd Jealous Contributing Writer   In my time as an organizer, I ...

Director says strength comes through community support    By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   Phyllis Wheatley Community Center (PWCC) annually ...

              The cast of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the closing scene of ...

Flu vaccinations offered at all Minnesota Lunds & Byerly’s stores   Flu season is returning to the Northern Hemisphere. It won’t ...

              I am amazed at the amount of cowardice that exists in our community. ...

Retired teacher gives 1,600 sandwiches nightly to inner-city homeless    By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer   The power of caring commitment ...

Recruitment for college volleyball does not come cheap   All four volleyball teams at the September 6-7 early season tournament ...

    By Robin James Contributing Writer   If you want to go hear some good music, Thursday night, Sept ...

  By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   The 2013 WNBA Playoffs begin this week: Washington-Atlanta and Indiana-Chicago in the East, ...

              By Alyse M. Hamilton, MD  The short answer to the question, “Are all men ...

President Barack Obama stands in that shadow   Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of 1930s Great Britain, went to Munich, Germany ...

            By Wayne Nealis Guest Commentator   I wish to applaud the Spokesman and the ...

                            Bettye Lavette Mon.-Tues., Sept. 23-24, 7 ...

He saw Helen to a cab, pretty much poured her into the back seat, made a show to the driver ...

Jazz and R&B heavyweights come together for “special show”   By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   Last week was the first ...

Classes taught by unlicensed teachers led some to lose required credits   By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   Minneapolis Public ...

Vikings lose again, this time a heartbreaker, 31-30 at Chicago last Sunday. Bears tight end Martellus Bennett grabbed the game-winning ...

It was quite the weekend in prep football. Here are 10 outstanding performances turned in by some of the metro ...

Four hundred and thirty-nine consecutive batters for a baseball team went to the plate, and everyone of them walked — ...