Light rail construction poses threat to surrounding businesses
Black-owned club struggles to stay open while losing customers By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer Progress at what cost?...
This week’s entertainment spotlights
Acoustic Africa: Dobet Gnahoré, Manu Gallo and Kareyce Fotso Sun,, Oct. 21, 7 and 9 pm Dakota Jazz...
Black girl speaks: a play and artistic movement
Talitha V. Anyabwele’s Black Girl Speaks, makes its area premiere, launching the 2012-13 national tour, at a...
Vikings stadium officials promise 32 percent diversity hiring!
But no one seems to have a copy of the equity plan At a small, special meeting I...
We must challenge and change our system of mass incarceration
“Police!” The shout from outside the front door was followed by the house shaking violently from a stampede of...
Power is in your person
By Marian Wright Edelman Guest Commentator “You know, when we started the farm workers movement, I remember going...
What if Romney wins?
By Raynard Jackson Guest Commentator With the presidential election right around the corner and most of the pundits...
WNBA President Laurel Richie Photo by Sophia Hantzes
It was “a terrific summer for women’s sports,” proclaimed WNBA President Laurel Richie in her second “State of the...
Fitzgerald second-fastest ever to 10,000 yards
PHOENIX — Two teams off to good solid starts and looking to bounce back after tough losses, the...
Central, Washburn keep winning championships
St. Paul Central captured its fifth-straight City Conference football title, and Minneapolis Washburn won its 11th consecutive crown...
Major League Baseball earns top grade for racial hiring practices
Twins’ diversity lags far behind league progress Second in an occasional series The 2012 Major League Baseball Racial and...
Scholars discuss Emancipation Proclamation at University of Minnesota
Dr. John Wright (l) Dr. John Wright, Morse-Amoco Distinguished Teaching Professor of Afro-American & African Studies and English at...
Fragments of the Ark: Civil War saga tells of Black soldiers and survivors
Gifted novelist Louise Meriweather followed Daddy Was a Number Runner with Fragments of the Ark (Pocket Books/Simon and...
Geoffrey Canada creates ‘A Small Army of Love’
Harlem Children’s Zone founder gives feedback on Northside Achievement Zone By James L. Stroud, Jr. Contributing Writer If a...
Local businessman seeks to enliven entrepreneurial spirit
Solutions to Black unemployment lie in more Blacks buying Black By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Local Black entrepreneur Duane...
Short films’ premiere celebrates voting power of communities of color
By Vickie Evans-Nash Editor-in-Chief On Thursday, October 11, between 6:30 and 8:30 pm, the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis...
Black farmers fight to retain land ownership
Modern-day struggle renews, redefines 40-acers-and-a-mule promise By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Land ownership, which signaled both privilege...
This week’s Entertainment spotlights
When a Man Loves a Diva Every Thurs.-Sat., Oct. 18 — Nov. 10, 8 pm The Lab Theater 700...
Wenso Ashby releases latest CD with classy listening party
Longtime collaborator Zsamé featured at party, on album Wenso Ashby featuring Zsamé, premier Twin Cities neo-soul purveyors (Midnite Walkin’,...
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