University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler announced Wednesday that use of racial descriptions will be reduced considerably in U police...
Read moreMy grandson Malcolm (“Rocket”) gave me the coldest stare. I really hadn’t done anything. I was holding him and talking...
Read moreMany African Americans migrated to the North from the South upon being declared free people. Most came for opportunities to...
Read moreMelvin Whitfield Carter, Jr. was born December 1948. His father was born 1923 in St. Paul at St. Joe’s Hospital,...
Read moreIf the Minneapolis School Board approves it, Interim Superintendent Michael Goar plans to “right size” the district. “What we are...
Read moreSt. Paul Public Schools has “evolved” since 2009, the year Valeria Silva was hired as its superintendent. “Have we made...
Read moreOn February 18, Voices for Racial Justice (VRJ) held a rally at Christ Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill, 105 University...
Read moreAs the Republican-led Congress prepares to update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), civil rights groups, educators and student...
Read moreMany young African Americans will be shut out of the high paying jobs of the future, if they don’t earn...
Read moreAccomplished Twin Cities actor Charla Marie Bailey is portraying a role, in Good People at Lyric Arts, not altogether uncommon...
Read moreA very public conflict between the Bridge Crossing Jubilee, Inc., the local group that has been commemorating the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery...
Read moreWillie Carter was born October 24, 1943, in Shawnee, OK, 40 miles east of Oklahoma City. His father, Thomas Lee...
Read moreAmerican Masters will present August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand nationwide on PBS, Friday, February 20.
Read moreJulián Castro, the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, wants to provide broadband access to public housing...
Read moreDr. Thelma Battle-Buckner for most of her four-score-plus life has forged a “blessed path” from the South to Minnesota. “I...
Read moreAfrican American women have, far beyond reasonable expectation, had to hold their communities together. And a sage saying goes, “A...
Read moreCraig Warren, named last May as the Greater Twin Cities United Way's Chief Administrative Officer, took a long and convoluted...
Read moreAchieving racial equity in a suburban school district where over half of the student population is of color is an...
Read moreIn a system that is often overlooked by the public and misused by law enforcement, Blacks account for more than...
Read moreThe Black unemployment rate fell slightly from 10.4 percent in December to 10.3 percent in January and is still on...
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