Month: December 2011

    Twin Cities Black Data Processing Association (BDPA) will hold its Seventh Annual Awards Ceremony on Friday, January 6, ...

  In a new Economic Policy Institute report, “A Jobs-Centered Approach to African American Community Development,” Algernon Austin, director of ...

  Mumia Abu-Jamal will not be put to death. For all that is a relief to people with conscience, there ...

  My Minneapolis beat continually exposes me to the fact that Black folks are really not liked nor appreciated in ...

  I want a moratorium on all foreclosures. Most folks have practically paid for their houses anyway when you take ...

        By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   Not counting HBCUs, there might be 20 Black women head ...

    The only bad thing about high school basketball in the metro area is that there are so many ...

    The NBA’s new 10-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) is now in place. Among its key provisions is a ...

    PHOENIX — After 19 straight wins over 364 days, the Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers’ bid for ...

Passed away on Sun., Dec. 11, 2011. Born to Arthur and Jean Frazier of Fergus Falls, MN on Jan 16, ...

    By James L. Stroud, Jr. Contributing Writer   On December 3, 2011, the Minnesota Jaycees organization held their ...

    News Analysis By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer   Young Black men, naturally propelled by their hormones and bombarded ...

  Members hope to encourage more grassroots participation   By Vickie Evans-Nash Contributing Writer   On Saturday, December 10 on ...

  By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   An October 2010 City of Minneapolis report concluded that locally owned Black small ...

    By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   Radio broadcasters added nearly 1.7 million weekly listeners in the past year, ...

  On Nov. 19, Ramsey County Human Services held its Fifth Annual National Adoption Day event. This year, families with ...

    As we enter the holiday season and the season of giving, I wanted to reach out to our ...

    ”The Master’s tools will never dismantle the Master’s house,” advises feminist Audre Lorde in her famous essay. I ...

  Herman Cain disappeared in the first week of December 2011 as a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. ...

    Out in the community, at meetings, in the media, or while talking with others, think of all the ...