The 26-year-old Hamline University graduate, former high school teacher, and current political consultant is running for St. Paul City Council in Ward 1. She wants to build her community up with steady jobs, safe streets, and a welcoming city council and police force.
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On the Run: Youth advocate/activist looks to put focus back on students
For decades, Chauntyll Allen has served youth in the classroom as a Saint Paul Public Schools employee. The Rondo native has also worked in the community in youth outreach, where she’s been focused on inspiring youth to choose positive paths in life. After experiencing issues firsthand that she wants to work on and effect change […]
Community responds in solidarity against New Zealand mosque attack [photos]
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Black leaders prominent among 2019 Bush Fellows
Provided by the Bush Foundation, Fellows receive upwards of $100,000 over a one- to two-year period to further develop their leadership skills.
‘Hate will not win’: local reaction to New Zealand mosque massacre
‘Hate will not win. Our communities are resilient,’ said Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Minnesota in response to the Christchurch, New Zealand mosque shootings.
Why Jamaica is leading the climate revolution
Even before the British billionaire invested US$1 billion in making the region ‘climate-smart,’ Jamaica, Barbados and Dominica were pioneering a renewable energy boom in the Caribbean.
Black Business Spotlight: Lee & Louise Confections
The MSR chatted it up with Allen at a local pop-up to find out more about the inspiration behind her business.
In the Heart of the Beast Theatre falls on hard times
HOBT has been part and parcel of multicultural theatre in the Twin Cities for the past 45 years. That could all end this summer.
Townsend boosts local Black filmmaking
Using his own filmmaking experience as a lesson in how it’s done, director, actor and comedian Robert Townsend offered encouraging news for Black filmmaking hopefuls during his visit to the Twin Cities last weekend: The barriers are fewer and the prospects better now than when he struggled for a break. Townsend came to kick off […]
Twilight reflections of a Rondo native son
Melvin Whitfield Carter, Jr’s memoir, ‘Diesel Heart’ captures how the former wayward hellraiser transitioned to a leader serving his community.