Month: February 2016

“I want young people to learn and tell stories about themselves, about who they are and who they will become,” ...

Anticipation builds as the museum, opening in September 2016, prepares to receive visitors from around the world.

The Black Liberation Project “is less about policy and more about social change. It’s about how people have to start ...

Maritza Correia later made history as the first Black female swimmer to break an American swim record, as well as ...

Given the pioneering success of Madam C. J. Walker, America's first self-made Black woman millionaire, people wanted to know how ...

We virtually spent a no-diversity weekend at the NHL Stadium Series game, staged for the first time in Minnesota and ...

Why does a state that supposedly is among the nation’s best in providing “a high quality of life” grapple with ...

Restore the Vote was an event co-sponsored by the NAACP Minneapolis and University of St. Thomas Law School. Held at ...

On Friday, February 19, in honor of Black History Month, the Network for Development of Children of African Descent (NdCAD) ...

The MSR recently talked to the U of M’s three Black swimmers in individual interviews at the U of M ...

Just as we were about to do our Black fan search in the Gophers’ football stadium concourse, we ran into ...

The new movie Race aims to enlighten those unfamiliar with the legendary story of athletic star Jesse Owens, “whose quest ...

While the members of the Academy have nominated a fine slate of actors and actresses, it has failed to include ...

Honor among thieves? Not with this bunch. These guys are playing a mean duplicitous game, and as they do, you ...

Susan Cain's 2012 bestseller, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, helps shed light on ...

For decades, African American women have been run through the ringer because of how they style their hair. It doesn’t’ ...

I pose the two questions because the answers are not as clear as one would like to believe. Black is ...

Dear Doctor: Late at night I wake up with severe hand tingling, and I have to shake my hands out ...

Beyoncé’s new song “Formation,” recently released and performed at Super Bowl 50, is a masterpiece of Black protest art and ...