Month: May 2015

In September of last year, President Obama issued a challenge to America: to develop strategies so that our youth may ...

Maryland’s LaMonte Wade threw out a runner at home. His brother Jamal’s only at bat in the tournament was a ...

One of the goals in the ten months since Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) opened its new Black Male Student Achievement ...

Spring is finally here. I think it might finally be safe to say we will not see anymore snow for ...

Last week this column described five advances in medicine that have enriched the quality and prolonged the lives of humankind. ...

HIRE Minnesota — not to be confused with the HIRED program in Minnesota — hosted a community meeting at the ...

As part of our celebration over the next several months of 80 years of continuous publication, the MSR will be ...

The Minnesota Comic Book Association (MCBA) holds two events a year that they say are “the largest comic book conventions ...

Only one of six major St. Paul construction projects, including the now-open Lowertown ballpark, has met or exceeded the 32 ...

As I sat glued to the telecast of the Baltimore City riots, I was overcome with an overwhelming sense of ...

Minnesota’s “culture of winning” team, the WNBA Minnesota Lynx, opened their 2015 training camp May 17 in their new downtown ...

MellaneoussquareIf violence is wrong in Baltimore, it is wrong when the government uses it as well. While we were distracted ...

New head prep boys’ basketball coaches Marcus Hill (Breck), Broderick “Bo” Powell (Robbinsdale Cooper), and James Ware (Park Center) hope ...

Are sports in America seen through a racial lens? No more and no less than anything else in this country. ...

In professional boxing, fighters are often categorized as champions, contenders, pretenders, prospects, or also-rans. And anyone involved in the sport ...

Keith-&-Lesli“Don’t you dare bother that girl.” Sam had caught Keith pondering the sleeping Faith. Sam’s smile broadened. He couldn’t get ...

On May 20 the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (MSR), now in its 80th year of publication, and its nonprofit namesake the MSR ...

Ludacris. J. Cole. Big Sean. Ice Cube. Brother Ali. Half-naked women. Marijuana infused air. Mosh pits. Freestyle raps and dances. ...

Dua Saleh came to the United States when she was five years old with her mother and two younger siblings. ...

In every major city in America there is a public outcry pleading for someone to do something about the ridiculously ...