Month: July 2015

Dr. Fayneese Miller, who has been the dean of the College of Education and Social Services and a professor of ...

Layoffs! Layoffs! Layoffs! There’s a word that corporate America has gotten very used to. Even though layoffs have become somewhat ...

Laurel Richie — in the fifth year of her WNBA presidency — had to address a couple of controversial off-season ...

Wintana Melekin moved with her family from Eritrea to America in 1989 when she was three years old. Eritrea, which ...

The Minnesota Twins hosted The Diversity Networking Summit at the Metropolitan Club at Target Field on July 1, 2015 and ...

Black athletes do wrong? White athletes do right? This type of imbalanced imagery regularly exists in sports media stories on ...

Mildred Brunson, the youngest of three children, a community legend, and a community mother who loves and is loved by ...

University of Missouri Associate Professor Cynthia Frisby proposed that if you ask the average Joe, they would more often than ...

The Minnesota Twins annually promote their “Celebrate Diversity” campaign. But each year, it’s awfully hard to find a decent representation ...

In a recent farewell statement dated May 4, 2015, released via the Internet to the Minneapolis community, including the MSR ...

It has been difficult and frustrating to watch the news lately. Black children continue to be on display for all ...

As of July 1, 2015 medical marijuana will be available by prescription in Minnesota to patients who qualify for it. ...

When rap arrived back in the late '70s, more than the music burst on the scene. The performers' outlandish costumes ...

Cartoon of the Week

When news broke that President Obama used the N-word during the podcast interview “WFT with Marc Maron” about America’s racial ...

During a South Carolina gubernatorial debate last year, when the topic of the Confederate battle flag on the State Capitol ...

The shooting of nine Blacks in the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), Wednesday, June 17, in Charleston, South ...

My brothers and sisters at Emmanuel AME in Charlotte are gentle and loving souls, but they also represent the weakness ...

  Helen hollered out, “Hey!” Keith came out of his thoughts. “Hey, Jackson! Mr. Music Man!” He called back, “At ...

I get no personal satisfaction out of telling you how bad things have been and for how long the 16-66 ...