Month: November 2014

By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Commentator In May 2004, comedian, social critic, and philanthropist Bill Cosby took the stage at ...

By Lisa Ferentz Contributing Writer  The holidays can be a wonderful and cozy time of year. We reconnect with those ...

Farm to Head Start among many nonprofit programs making progress   This past summer, Community Action Partnership of Ramsey & Washington ...

Homeowners can act now to help prevent ice dams and costly water damage to ceilings and walls. Ice dams can ...

MPS Black Male Achievement director gets some barbershop ‘real truth’   By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   Shahmar Dennis plans ...

Dr. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri on April 4, 1928. She overcame a traumatic ...

Randy Shaver is wrong. He nominated North High Polars’ coach, Charles Adams III, for the Coach of the Year Award. ...

  By Marc Morial  Guest Commentator “We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage ...

Doing better requires that we confront our self-defeating behaviors   It’s hard not to notice the plight that Black people are ...

Spiritual leaders voice parishioners’, community’s concerns on media coverage   By Charles Hallman Staff Writer   The local mainstream media ...

From the MSR Legacy Archives As part of our celebration over the next several months of our 80 years of ...

Mabel “Madea” Simmons is the moralizing, motor-mouthed senior citizen created and first introduced on stage by the incomparable Tyler Perry. ...

Keith didn’t like the idea of contradicting anyone  as powerful as Alaina Sheridan, but he had to stand his ground. ...

Tips for reducing waste, saving money during the holiday season   The holidays are coming up and we all know ...

Marion S. Barry, stalwart civil rights activist cum prominent politician, passed away Nov. 23 at age 78 owing to cardiac ...

              By Myrle B. Cooper  Contributing Commentator  Despite frantically hiring the Lakota Group and ...

This week’s column features an outstanding basketball prospect who’s quarterbacking his school’s football team to the Prep Bowl, a running ...

            By Marilyn Tavenner Contributing Writer Your health needs change from year to year. And, ...

KSTP’s outrageous Pointergate story has caused quite the stir on the Internet. Daily Kos called it the most racist piece ...