Charles Hallman is a contributing reporter and award-winning sports columnist at the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder.
Roger Guenveur Smith is in town for the next couple of weeks in his acclaimed Rodney King at the Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul.
During a MSR phone interview, Smith was asked about Actress Viola Davis, who recently won an Emmy for her performances in How to Get Away with Murder.
It’s not so much what happened in Game 1, but instead what adjustments the team — now down a game in the best-of-five championship series — will do for Game 2.
I know there are Blacks who like hockey, occasionally we run into one or two at games. But rarely, if ever, does the Only One find someone who looks like me in the press box or at media days.
Black lawyers nationwide are concerned about “prosecutor’s discretion” whether or not to file charges on police officers who shoot Blacks. The Cochran Firm, founded by late attorney Johnnie Cochran, earlier this summer released a “boiling point” timeline of police-related shootings of Blacks over a 12-month period from July 2014 to July 2015.
Award-winning actor Roger Guenveur Smith brings the late Rodney King to life on stage beginning this week at St. Paul’s Penumbra Theatre. Smith stars in Rodney King for eight shows, October 1 – 11.
Dominic Frost all season has faithfully maintained one of baseball’s time-honored traditions — never mess with a streak. The Minnesota Twins batboy pledged not to cut his hair while the team strives for its first post-season spot since 2010.
Why isn’t baseball the American pastime for Blacks? My late father and late uncle hooked me to baseball as a child. The former would listen to Detroit Tigers games on his car radio. My uncle conspicuously planted an egg-colored earphone in his ear connected to his pocket-sized AM transistor radio, also listening to baseball broadcasts. […]
The Minneapolis City Council last week approved funding for a study to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour as well as a proposed ordinance to help protect minimum-wage workers, including “predictability pay” for employees if their work schedule changes, cancels or shortens with less than 24 hours’ notice. The council’s actions may have been influenced by labor unrest at the downtown Twins stadium.
Randi Chapman of Potomac, Maryland, intended to purchase some team merchandise at the Minnesota Twins stadium store while in town on business. As she left the store, Jim “Mudcat” Grant was selling books outside, in between late afternoon showers before a Twins game.
This year’s West finals, based on the first game played Thursday in Minneapolis, is Ali-Frazier like. “[Like] two heavyweight fighters going blow by blow,” remarked a relieved Seimone Augustus after Minnesota’s 67-60 win over Phoenix to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three semi-finals series.
Urban Perspectives, a weekly local urban affairs program, has received a 2015 Midwest Regional Emmy nomination for Program/Host.
The term “Black-on-Black crime” is oft-referenced in reporting on violence in this country, often using the annual FBI crime reports. These reports show that the percentage of Black murder victims who have been murdered by Blacks in the U.S. has consistently hovered around 90 percent since 2009.
It’s an old story: A young man gets his first car and then goes to work on it, making it uniquely his own.
Three of the six newcomers on the 2015 U of M volleyball team are Blacks: Toni Alugbue, Taylor Morgan and Kayla Buford join holdovers Daly Santana and Dalianliz Rosado as the most players of color in Gopher Women’s Volleyball Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon’s four-year tenure.
It’s a rare sight in Big Ten volleyball, especially at Minnesota. The Gophers this season has three of the five players of color are Bl
The MSR got a quick analysis from two coaches in the closing seconds of Minnesota’s two-point win over Los Angeles Friday in Game One of the Western conference semifinals.
“I am very honored but as a Black filmmaker, we don’t trust the system in which we are going to be judged,” said Joe Brewster in a recent MSR phone interview. He and his wife Michele Stephenson co-produced and directed American Promise.
Collateral consequences are the additional state and/or federal penalties offenders often face once they’ve completed their jail sentences.
A new ad campaign to draw attention to the disproportionate impacts of smog on communities of color has been unveiled by a coalition that includes the NAACP and the Sierra Club.
The fourth-seeded Sparks are playing well, as opposed to Minnesota, who have struggled through a brutal August schedule (6-6) and lost their starting backcourt to injuries for much of that stretch while trying to incorporate new players into the regular rotation.
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