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Minneapolis, for the first time, is hosting the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Annual Convention August 5-9. The MSR...

A late-night “car lot” at the corner of Rice and University, in the southern shadow of the State Capitol building...

A new “cutting edge” pool is expected to open in North Minneapolis later this month. The Webber Park Natural Swimming...

As part of our celebration over the next several months of 80 years of continuous publication, the MSR will be...

On Friday, July 17 a healing ceremony took place at a proposed commemorative plaza at the corner of Concordia Avenue...

Minneapolis, for the first time, is hosting the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) annual convention August 5-9. The MSR...

As the Minneapolis Police Department plans to expand the implementation of body cameras in 2016, the Police Conduct Oversight Commission...

Schools are failing our children because they don’t see them as entrepreneurs and don’t encourage such skills as a result,...

In our May 21 issue, the MSR began a series of stories looking into an organization called Better Ed that...

The Rachel Dolezal story created a perhaps unnecessary uproar among some Blacks, says noted historian Mahmoud El-Kati.

In these days of achievement gaps and disappointing graduation rates, one South Minneapolis high school this year graduated 100 percent...

As part of our celebration over the next several months of 80 years of continuous publication, the MSR will be...

After a tragic mill explosion left several children orphaned, the Washburn Center for Children was founded in 1883 by Cadwallader...

Many of our readers will surely recognize friends, family and neighbors from the distant and not-so-distant past — such as...

Ancestry Books unequivocally is a boon to writers, readers, and the Twin Cities at large, not in the least because...

Omaha, Nebraska, has a population about the size of Minneapolis, a little over 400,000, with a smaller percentage of African...

Wintana Melekin moved with her family from Eritrea to America in 1989 when she was three years old. Eritrea, which...

Mildred Brunson, the youngest of three children, a community legend, and a community mother who loves and is loved by...

In a recent farewell statement dated May 4, 2015, released via the Internet to the Minneapolis community, including the MSR...

The June 17 Charleston massacre where nine persons were killed inside a church has “rekindled the debate” for stricter gun...