Month: February 2015

As the Republican-led Congress prepares to update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), civil rights groups, educators and student ...

Birdman won Best Picture at the 87th annual Academy Awards on a night periodically punctuated by politically-conscious acceptance speeches.

Many young African Americans will be shut out of the high paying jobs of the future, if they don’t earn ...

Psychology has been an essential discipline in the makeup of society for hundreds of years. The study of the mind ...

A recent mainstream newspaper editorial urged the need for reform in college sports. But as usual, the ‘emperor’s new clothes’ ...

Accomplished Twin Cities actor Charla Marie Bailey is portraying a role, in Good People at Lyric Arts, not altogether uncommon ...

A very public conflict between the Bridge Crossing Jubilee, Inc., the local group that has been commemorating the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery ...

Black ‘leaders’ work on a plan to reduce crime, but will the community be left out again? “Leadership’s” annual empty ...

Willie Carter was born October 24, 1943, in Shawnee, OK, 40 miles east of Oklahoma City. His father, Thomas Lee ...

The NAACP image portrays strength and resolve, courage and confidence, integrity and respect for its membership; but some of its ...

Buying a house or a piece of property to call your own is part of the American Dream. But if ...

What would happen to you if you were in an accident or sick or if you were just getting older ...

American Masters will present August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand nationwide on PBS, Friday, February 20.

Julián Castro, the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, wants to provide broadband access to public housing ...

Dr. Thelma Battle-Buckner for most of her four-score-plus life has forged a “blessed path” from the South to Minnesota. “I ...

On a three-day historic visit, President Obama hit a home run for India. Anyone watching these events in person would ...

Allina Starr is Gophers Head Coach Marlene Stollings’ first city signee. The Minneapolis DeLaSalle High School graduate will be eligible ...

By March there could be three teams from the Minneapolis City Conference and one from the St. Paul City Conference ...

Things are looking up for the Vikings with a billion-dollar domed stadium 35 percent completed in downtown Minneapolis that is ...

African American women have, far beyond reasonable expectation, had to hold their communities together. And a sage saying goes, “A ...