Black Business Spotlight: South Mpls Black history inspires Funky Grits
The Black-owned restaurant boasts a menu like none other in the area, with soul food recipes based off of cheesy grits with a twist towards vegan ingredients.
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Black Business Spotlight: ME&I Fitness & Performance
Looking to leave a 25-year career in financial services, Jeff Scott opened ME&I Fitness & Performance last September.
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Black Business Spotlight: Nokomis Dental Center
After working at a dental practice for nine months, Dr. Grace Warren of Nokomis Dental Center not only knew she wanted to own her dentistry business but also own the building that housed it.
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Fancy Ray’s remarkable rise to stardom
With 30 years in the game, Fancy Ray McCloney went from lip-sync concerts to becoming a Twin Cities entertainment icon.
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Black Business Spotlight: Lisa’s Shoe Shine
February 2019 will mark Lisa Fredell’s 28th year as a shoe shiner in downtown Minneapolis. In 2001, after working at a stand for 10 years, Fredell jumped on the opportunity of a lifetime to buy her own stand from her boss.
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Black Business Spotlight: KMS Air Duct Cleaning
‘We do air duct cleaning, which is our primary business. We started out doing apartment buildings and houses. As time went on we got into commercial air duct cleaning in hospitals, schools, an account for the airport — targeting big business and commercial buildings.’
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Black history unearthed in Mpls’ oldest cemetery
The oldest cemetery member is Morgan Jones, a former slave of a Virginia tobacco field who moved to Minnesota after gaining his freedom. Jones lived in Minnesota for 44 years as a free man. He died in 1906 at the age of 101.
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Networking with a sisterhood focus
Sister Spokesman keeps growing to meet Black women’s needs and interests High praise comes from Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Publisher and CEO Tracey Williams-Dillard when speaking about the Medtronic Foundation, crediting Jacob …
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United Negro College Fund helps students across the nation attend college
It’s been doing so since 1944 “A mind is a terrible thing to waste” is the signature slogan at the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), led by President and …
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Sheila E., The Revolution, and Morris Day and the Time brave cold to salute Prince (photos)
A bitter cold draped “Salute to Prince” night at Super Bowl Live in downtown Minneapolis on Monday evening. It was cold enough that the singers seemed unable to perform without …
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