When we go looking for a dentist, what we will most likely find are White males. According to the 2014-2015 “Minnesota Dentists Workforce Survey,” 67 percent of dentists are male, 92 percent are White, and 0.7 percent are African American. A young African American woman from North Minneapolis has successfully challenged those odds. Shakeyla Barber was born in Robbinsdale, … [Read more...]
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Too many people live in fear — summit aimed to quell street violence
A local newspaper columnist in his Sunday column earlier this month questioned if last weekend’s two-day Peace Summit would work, largely because one of its key organizers was Sharif Willis. Willis, who finished a 25-year prison sentence, hopes to resuscitate a “street organization” like United for Peace, which started in the early 1990s but fizzled out after a … [Read more...]
After the verdict: The fight for justice continues
On a seemingly appropriate cloudy Friday afternoon, just minutes before sprinkles of rain fell, many reporters, community members and what seemed like the entire nation, waited outside the Ramsey County Courthouse in downtown St. Paul for the verdict in the case against former Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez. Around 2:35 pm on June 16, an individual came out of the courthouse … [Read more...]
Community reacts to not guilty verdict in Yanez trial
The emotions expressed among community members that Jeronimo Yanez, now a former St. Anthony police officer, was acquitted Friday of all charges in the killing of Philando Castile, were nearly unanimous: Everyone is angry. Minneapolis NAACP President Jason Sole on MPR called the verdict a result of a “fake trial” because it’s rare that a police officer has been convicted … [Read more...]
Yanez found not guilty in fatal shooting of Philando Castile
After close to 27 hours of deliberation, a jury on Friday acquitted St. Anthony Police Officer Jeronimo Yanez of all charges in the shooting death of Philando Castile. Yanez faced felony charges of second-degree manslaughter and two counts of dangerous discharge of a firearm in the fatal shooting of Castile during a traffic stop on July 6, 2016. Yanez fired seven shots, … [Read more...]