Month: April 2015

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, the first feature-length film to focus on the origin and downfall of the ...

The general use of marijuana has been fairly controversial until recently, when attitudes toward its use have shifted significantly. Over ...

A system that never really wanted to educate Black children beginning with the early laws against educating slaves, to so-called ...

According to The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport’s (TIDES) latest figures, nearly a third of the National Football ...

Prep sceneThe St. Paul City Conference isn’t actually recognized as a hotbed talent pool when it comes to high school ...

The Facing Race Ambassador Awards took place Tuesday, April 28, honoring the racial equity work of Nekima Levy-Pounds, law professor ...

With the NFL 2015 Draft this week being held in Chicago, the Vikings are looking to improve on last year’s ...

Over 2,000 people turned out for the "Rise Up and Shut it Down with Baltimore" rally Wednesday, April 29, organized ...

Is the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s reporting on Black leaders and local Black organizations an intentional attack? The daily newspaper’s recent ...

The MSR alerts its readers, and through them the entire community, of an uncommonly important event coming up this weekend ...

It is a slow death — a painful death. The cause of death does not show up down in the ...

The NAACP has congratulated Loretta Lynch on her confirmation as the 83rd U.S. Attorney General. Lynch makes history as the ...

“This is a time for moms to say: ‘We deserve two days to get out, go downtown, hang out with ...

The powerful, signature jazz vocals of local singing sensation Thomasina Petrus will be featured in a new theatrical modern dance-figure ...

Keith followed Helen and Sam off-stage, Luis nudging him in the ribs. "Yo', iss some girls want to meet us, ...

Sportswriter Wendell Smith covered baseball games sitting in the outfield stands because he was Jim Crowed from the press box. ...

“That was one of the highlights of my being with Muhammad Ali when he had me stood up in the ...

After a 166-day partisan political struggle in the U.S. Senate to confirm the first Black American woman to be the ...

Julianne Malveaux You know their names – Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice – because these African American men were ...