Month: September 2011

Alison Canty with her daughter Kayla Naomi Smith. For many students, learning disabilities may have a mild, moderate or severe ...

Wynton Marsalis turns 50 on October 18, 2011. But before that personal milestone, he returns to Orchestra Hall on October ...

Thirteen-year-old Brittanie Potter and her 12-year-old sister Sydney held a bake sale and garage sale at their Marion, Ohio home ...

When I learned that the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Mid-western Regional Office requested Chairman Martin R. Castro to ...

Last week, a new ad for Nivea lotion came out in print showing a Black man with a fade and ...

The St. Paul Pioneer Press Sunday, August 14 edition put local teen Maryan Gaafaa on the front page of the ...

‘One Minneapolis, One Read’ event Mon., Oct. 3, 7 pm, Guthrie Theater, 818 S. 2nd St., Mpls. • One Minneapolis, ...

  The Twin Cities Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) Minnesota teams won first and fifth place at the 2011 National ...

The current buzzwords today are “Go Green.” We’re being told to go paperless, recycle, replace our wood sash windows, buy ...

A new report strongly suggests that big-time college football and men’s basketball players should be paid for their efforts while ...

The NCAA reinstated three Ohio State football players last week who were suspended for taking $200 each from a university ...

Only in boxing can you just about expect the bizarre. You always have more questions than answers. Saturday night in ...

To finish first, you must first finish. The Vikings had better figure that out fast, or the 2011 season could ...

Last week there were some outstanding performances in the St. Paul and Minneapolis City Conferences, while two suburban quarterbacks continue ...

Managing residents through unplanned setbacks isn’t new for Shiloh Temple International, a North Minneapolis church. But doing this for folks ...

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that no victims of May’s tornado that tore through North Minneapolis are beefing about ...

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) has renewed its call for television stations to better diversify their newsroom management ...

Junius Wilson is a senior at Woodbury High School who has been featured in his school newspaper as one of ...

From the mouths of babes: Lebron Riley, executive director of Urban Jungle, Inc., recalls, “Back in ’94, ’95, a father ...

    It’s great when an up-and-coming comedic ace pays homage where it’s due, which is exactly what happened when ...