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Over the past few weeks, the MSR has published a series of articles focusing on an organization called Better Ed,...

The 29th annual Juneteenth festival kicked off Saturday, June 20 at North Mississippi River Park in North Minneapolis. Close to...

The HIRED Program of Minnesota was formed in 1968. Its mission is to provide personalized and innovative work solutions through...

With an awesome turnout and a beautiful day for the 11th Annual 38th & Chicago BBQ & Music Festival, all...

Skepticism was in no short supply June 16 at the American Indian Center in Minneapolis. The occasion was a community...

In what is quickly and unexpectedly gaining ground as a fitting memorial to the nine African Americans killed by a...

The National Brotherhood of Cyclists’ (NBC) Equity in Motion event (July 15 -19), which is not for brothers only. Sisters,...

“We’ve come to understand that terrorism is something that happens from people who have a large agenda beyond a small...

VP Jones sees convergence of social justice and labor movements Being a community advocate is high among Cathy Jones’ passions....

Media on all platforms are failing women, especially Blacks and other women of color, according to the new Women’s Media...

Women in film and television entertainment are underrepresented and outnumbered by men, says the 2014 Women’s Media Center (WMC) U.S....

Fourth in a multi-part series Over the past few weeks, the MSR has published a series of articles focusing on...

Male-dominated Kenya is being dragged figuratively kicking and screaming into the modern world, the principle architect of that movement being...

The seventh annual Black Men’s Healing Conference coming up June 25-26, like those preceding, shouldn’t be perceived as pertaining only...

Seldom photographed together are two of the men pictured above, Walter White, secretary of the NAACP, and Lester Granger, executive...

Minneapolis — On Monday, June 8 the Minneapolis City Council voted 12-1 to repeal spitting and lurking laws as around...

A “community healing service” will help kick off this year’s Juneteenth celebration, set for June 20 in North Minneapolis and...

The Minneapolis Urban League (MUL) is still doing business serving the community, according to Interim Director Steven Belton. But “our...

Over Memorial Day weekend in Chicago, 56 people were shot, 12 of them fatally. These numbers leaped from a story...

Third in a multi-part series The MSR began this series two weeks ago looking into an organization called Better Ed...