St. Paul street art project shares food with community
Local artist creates platform for educating on healthy eating By Raymond Jackson Contributing Writer Two thousand attendees gathered...
Read moreMpls park board, along with City, addresses inequities
Outreach department works to reconcile cultural differences By Charles Hallman Staff Writer First of a two-part story Minneapolis Mayor...
Read moreWhat happened in Ferguson, MO is a bigger issue than race
For many Mike Brown’s death represents the value of young Black men in the U.S. News Analysis By Mel...
Read moreTreating Black men means healing Black women
Black Men Healing Conference focuses on sexual exploitation By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer There are a great many programs...
Read moreEntrepreneur’s story of refugee hardship results in success
Immigrant uses family recipe to create Sadia’s Gourmet Sauce By Khymyle Mims Contributing Writer Have you ever met someone, and before...
Read moreBLACK CAUCUS DISCUSSES STRATEGIES FOR DFL ACCOUNTABILITY
Community members want more than talk — they’re ready for action By Charles Hallman Staff Writer All DFL...
Read moreTRIO teaches high school students the culture of college
Program director’s personal experiences inform her work with youth By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Minerva Muñoz’s main mission is...
Read moreTired of long-term plans to close the achievement gap?
SkyLearn promises ‘significant improvements’ By Dwight Hobbes Contributing Writer Minnesota’s educational disparity isn’t just a gap, it’s a...
Read moreA ‘hidden level of government’ few understand: county boards
Hennepin’s board lacks the diversity of those it represents By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Three of the seven...
Read moreOn the ground in Ferguson, MO
News Analysis By Mel Reeves Contributing Writer The MSR sent writer Mel Reeves to Ferguson, Missouri to personally observe...
Read moreBack In The Day 2014
Approximately 600 people gather at at Phelps Park in Minneapolis on August...
Read moreThe federal poverty line grossly underestimates actual U.S. poverty
During the summer of 2008, art would imitate life in New York as Michael Bloomberg implemented a more meticulous and...
Read more‘Younger generation’ provides valuable feedback to governing boards
Latavia Osgood contributes remarkably strong qualifications to St. Paul's venerated anti-poverty program Community Action Partnership (CAP), starting with, as you'd...
Read moreThis board member breaks the mold
You don’t meet LeAndra Estis so much as experience her. The svelte, diminutive dynamo, an enthused conversationalist, arrests your attention,...
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An eye-witness account of Black Lives Matter’s MOA protest
This participant found the event life-changing Dear freedom riders, civil right activists, Soweto, South Africa, Mandela, Malcom X, Dr. King,...
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Family suspects police cover-up in Terrance Franklin shooting
Uncle says ‘crazed individual’ profiled in media is not his nephew Something happened May 10 after he allegedly was earlier involved...
Read moreMinister celebrates his 105th birthday — Reverend Smith describes himself as a ‘late bloomer’
On Saturday, January 19, Wayman AME Church in North Minneapolis played host to a glorious event that celebrated the 105th...
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