State championships not the highest goal of coaching
There are only 25 Blacks listed on the Minnesota State High School League (MSHSL) list of state boys’...
Boys’ state basketball tournament highlights
The 2012 state boys’ basketball tournament held at the Target Center last weekend will certainly be one to remember....
Sounds of Blackness headline this year’s Carol Fitzgerald Memorial Benefit
Three-time Grammy Award-winning Sounds of Blackness will headline the Eighth Annual Carol Fitzgerald Memorial Fund Benefit on...
Prejudice for years at Hopkins High
By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Many suburban schools in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area have experienced a...
Entertainment, etc. — Buddy Guy’s brilliance ends on a weak note
By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer Blues legend Buddy Guy can be brilliant or on...
It’s what — and not who — killed Whitney Houston
A new allegation has surfaced that pop superstar Whitney Houston was murdered. Legal television commentator Nancy Grace ignited...
As stadium bill gets lawmakers’ attention,‘People’s Hearing’ takes on housing crisis
GOP denies formal hearing on suspending home foreclosures News Analysis By Mel Reeves Contributing Writer Last week,...
Rasta Republican is Ron Paul devotee
By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer David Daniels arguably is the oddest duck in the Twin Cities political...
More student suspensions for bad behavior?
By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Last week the MSR reported that Black students in the Twin Cities...
State’s top communicating super: Dr. Bernadeia Johnson
Dr. Bernadeia H. Johnson, superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), was honored March 16 with the District...
Optimistic ‘Village Child’ serves Brooklyn Park minorities
By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer Immediately on meeting Mary Anderson, one is impressed by a sense of...
That’s My Face depicts a journey seeking African images, affirmation
Filmmaker finds himself reflected in Afro-Brazilian culture By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Thomas Allen Harris did what...
Pioneering newscaster Sue Simmons got shafted
Once upon a time, before the early 1970s, there were even fewer Black faces in television news than...
Unlike SCSU’s Earthbound propaganda, Duluth’s Un-Fair campaign attacks racism
By Myrle B. Cooper Guest Commentator At St. Cloud State University (SCSU), a PR firm is charging...
Discontent erupts in early spring violence
MPD takes possession of Civilian Review Authority On the international scene last year, the Arab Spring brought an offensive...
Show our youth we care by resurrecting the village
It was an August afternoon and the sun was blazing. I was a penniless seven-year-old, and I decided I was...
NCAA has little to say about Black-White graduation disparity gap
By Charles Hallman Staff Writer All last week, endless bracket stories were told ad nauseam. But...
First steps toward getting help for a child
Having a child with challenging behaviors can at times seem overwhelming. It can seem even more so if...
Will Tiger Woods win again?
I remember a few years ago covering the NCAA Men’s Golf Championships at Hazeltine National in Chaska. Northwestern...
Hopkins, DeLaSalle, Maranatha Christian state champs again
Hopkins, DeLaSalle and Maranatha Christian repeated as state champions at the girls’ basketball finals held at the Target Center...
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