The idea of changing the name of beautiful Lake Calhoun to Hubert Humphrey Lake has caused quite a stir in...
Read more“A people without knowledge of their history and culture is like a tree without roots.” — Marcus Garvey In my...
Read moreWell, well, well. Would ya looky here. Golf fans done went and got theyself a genuine, for real cutie-pie White...
Read moreOn my radio show or in my opinion column, a few people always want to bring up the old argument...
Read moreGentrification: “to convert into a more affluent middle-class neighborhood, as by remodeling dwellings, resulting in increased property values and in...
Read more“You be the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow...
Read moreMore than folks realize was riding on the NBA championship series. In class society, everything, and I mean everything, counts....
Read moreThe basketball season has finally ended (with apologies to the Lynx who are just beginning), but it is hard to...
Read more“But suppose God is Black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro...
Read moreAt 8:30 am December 9, 1992, a long nightmare of terror began for Wylanda Williams as she answered a knock...
Read moreI always listen to conservative talk radio. Just in case slavery comes back...because Newt Gingrich or Sean Hannity will be...
Read moreBy Rev. Irene Monroe CNN’s Don Lemon has penned a memoir titled Transparent that will come out in September. In...
Read moreGil Scott-Heron: His name says it all. The man made history, an activist artist of singular consequence. Sly vocals, wry...
Read more“Let nobody fool you, all the loud noises we hear today are nothing but the death groans of the dying...
Read moreFolks often wonder how racial stereotypes and misperceptions became so imbedded in the U.S. psyche. The answer of course is...
Read moreEvery since the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the American medical apparatus has been an integral part of partisan politics....
Read moreBy Al Flowers Guest Commentator I didn’t need a tornado to tell me. Black people need Black institutions. African Americans,...
Read moreTHROUGH MY EYES By Ron Edwards The tornado that smashed its way through the northern part of Minneapolis on Sunday,...
Read moreVOICES OF THE VILLAGE By Lissa Jones “You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face...
Read moreTRYING MY BEST By Frank Erickson I heard a stand-up comic ask, “How come no one reenacts the Vietnam War?”...
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