Month: February 2017

Big Sky commissioner reveals what got her where no Black woman has gone before Andrea Williams Andrea Williams is the ...

Kevin Sanders It takes neither a clairvoyant nor a political scientist to predict the new U.S. President’s plans to make ...

Lou Bellamy A local Black history exhibit is now on display at St. Paul’s Minnesota History Center. “Penumbra Theatre at ...

This column continues the Only One series in which this reporter shares his experiences as the only African American journalist ...

Joan Higginbotham, left, here with flight engineer Sunita L. Williams, flew into outer space aboard the space shuttle Discovery. She ...

Gwendolyn Brooks A towering figure in the field of 20th-century poetry is the late Gwendolyn Brooks, who touched millions of ...

In 1987 Congress passed a public law designating March as Women’s History Month. The president also issued a proclamation and ...

Cheating, stealing and lying to make a profit is as American as apple pie, and so is misogyny, xenophobia, Islamophobia ...

Trump’s public statement commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day omitted any mention of Judaism, anti-Semitism or the Nazis’ systematic program exterminating ...

With the Star Tribune robust support of the U.S. Attorney Andy Luger’s attack on local Somali Americans, the paper has ...

Each winter we salt our roads and sidewalks to protect against sliding cars and slippery walks. Doing so is an ...

The upper Mississippi River, which starts at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, is in great shape until pollutants flow in ...

Surprisingly, one in every three adults in the U.S. has a condition called “pre-diabetes.” That’s almost 100 million people! Astonishingly, nine ...

Across the United States, the likelihood that poor children will eventually rise into the middle class or beyond depends heavily ...

Menthol cigarettes are having a disproportionate negative impact on the health of the Twin Cities African American community. Yet new ...

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars performed live at the Amsterdam Bar & Hall, 6 W. 6th Street in St. Paul ...

Shawn Lewis There are some Black professionals who are not only good at their jobs, but they also exemplify outstanding ...

(l-r) Guy Benson and Jane Kirtley The First Amendment protects all kinds of free speech, including “harmful” and objectionable speech. ...

The Minneapolis Public School District (MSP) has plenty to be proud of as 13 student-athletes signed National Letters of Intent ...