Charles Hallman

According to the Mayo Clinic and other medical experts, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is “a mental health condition that is triggered by a terrifying event — either experiencing it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety.”

This week Minneapolis will be the launching site for a series of conferences for Blacks seeking corporate leadership positions.

According to the Pew Research Center, the number of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. reached a high of 12.2 million in 2007, and now is at 11.3 million — about 3.5 percent of the nation’s population.

Vietnam War veteran Makolle Williams has lived a unique life in the course of his 73 years.

Less than five percent of U.S. lawyers are Black according to a Lawyers of Color Foundation study. Yolanda Young authored the study using American Bar Association numbers, which show that over the last decade Black attorneys have increased by only four tenths of a percent, and the percentage of Blacks attending top law schools and large law firms “has actually declined.”

When Makolle Williams watched the disturbing videos of Eric Garner’s unwarranted death in Staten Island, New York City last year after a police officer put him in a choke-hold for 15 seconds, it reaffirmed his belief that racism is deep-seated in this country. He fully believed this because he has personally experienced so much of it, beginning with his service during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and intensifying after he returned home.

Minneapolis Police Officer Tyrone Barze spoke to local youth last week at the Clyde Turner Basketball Camp at Phillips Community Center in South Minneapolis. He advised them to use “self-reflection, humility and goal-setting” and to “seek advice from experienced people.”

Alan Page became the first Black Minnesota Supreme Court justice in 1993. His days on the bench officially end at the end of this month. He will retire on August 31 after 22 years as the seventh-longest serving court justice in state history.