STATE OF MINNESOTA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURTCOUNTY OF HENNEPIN PROBATE MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION In Re: Estate of Richard Duane Newstrom, Sr., Deceased NOTICE OF INFORMAL PROBATE OF WILL AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS FILE NO. 27-PA-PR-22-598 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND CREDITORS: Notice is hereby given, that an application for informal […]
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Summons
STATE OF MINNESOTA DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF RAMSEY SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT Cherrie Lenora Smith, Plaintiff, VS. Haweya Chafeh Djama, and Ahmed Awil Ashkir, Defendants. THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: HAWEYA CHAFEH DJAMA AND AHMED AWIL ASHKIR. 1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff has started a lawsuit against you. The Plaintiff’s Complaint […]
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Remembering Dolly J. Coleman
Dolly J. Coleman, 83, of St. Paul, passed away on May 14 with her loving husband of 33 years, Charles L. Coleman, Sr. by her side.
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Remembering Reverend Dr. Mildred Louise Cox
Sunrise, May 3, 1935 — Sunset, May 14, 2022 Reverend Dr. Mildred Louise (Wright) Cox, age 87, passed peacefully on May 14, 2022. Mildred was born May 3, 1935, to Clyde and Katie Ruth Wright and raised in Knoxville, TN. She attended Meharry Medical College and pursued a career in nursing and nursing education before […]
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Remembering Nell Dodson Russell: reporter, columnist, truth-teller
It is frustrating that many important women and minorities in journalism have never received the recognition they deserved. A good place to start changing this is with the career of Nell Dodson Russell, who spent more than a decade writing for the Minneapolis Spokesman (today the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder). She was born Nellie Ellen Dodson in […]
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Special needs a specialty of Apple Tree Dental
ADVERTISEMENT Appropriate and competent dental care is needed for every population. Apple Tree Dental is a nonprofit group dental practice specializing in geriatric and special needs dental care. Starting 31 years ago in 1985, the clinic was initially founded around the care of older adults and in-house older adults who lived in long-term care facilities […]
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Race and class appear equally divisive in America
The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. — Adam Smith An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most […]
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Where is the money going? The untold story of who really benefits from human incarceration
A biweekly column in which various contributors from both sides of prison walls explore common ground for effecting change. By Deon Miller Contributing Writer There are a lot of different companies who benefit from mass incarceration. It is not just the Department of Corrections (DOC) — some of your favorite companies pray on us coming […]
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A challenge for the Black media
The new Kremlin in the West Black Media faces many challenges in 2017. Success or failure in Black America will depend on the following: The victory by Donald Trump provides a great challenge for the next four years. Black journalism has to decide whether to hide with the White mainstream as it establishes its Kremlin […]
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Pope Francis needs his gay priests
To the shock of many of us LGBTQ people of faith is the Vatican’s recent decision in the document “The Gift of Priestly Vocation,” to ban gays from the priesthood; thus, reaffirming its 2005 stance. Those of us who have “deep-seated homosexual tendencies” or who “support the so-called ‘gay culture’” are categorically denied to serve […]
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Jeff Lorber and friends thrill at reunion show
By Raymond Jackson Contributing Writer The Dakota Nightclub continues to show why it’s one of the best musical venues in downtown Minneapolis, as it recently brought Jeff Lorber and friends back to the club for what was billed as a reunion show. Lorber was joined by Twin Cities’ own Stokley Williams, lead vocalist and drummer […]