MELLANEOUS By Mel Reeves Anyone who has been paying attention to the news of late couldn’t help but notice that...
Read moreSOMETHING I SAID By Dwight Hobbes Minnesota Viking Adrian Peterson sustains America’s history of extraordinarily privileged Black men with no...
Read moreLITTLE BY LITTLE By Matthew Little Yes! It was April 12, 1861 (exactly 150 years ago) when America suffered its...
Read moreTHROUGH MY EYES By Ron Edwards The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported April 5 that two ranking Minneapolis police officers, Lt....
Read moreEVERYTHING'S POSSIBLE By Sondra Samuels Years ago my husband Don and I had a neighbor I’ll call Teresa. Teresa was...
Read moreVOICES OF THE VILLAGE By Lissa Jones In his struggle against apartheid in South Africa, for which he was killed,...
Read moreYEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, I SAID IT By Sheletta Brundidge Where are they getting these raggedy airplanes from? Is Boeing using...
Read moreMELLANEOUS By Mel Reeves I attended Governor Mark Dayton’s Black Economic Summit a few weeks ago, and like most of...
Read moreTHROUGH MY EYES By Ron Edwards Tuesday’s April 5, 2011 edition of the Star Tribune reported an unveiling of the...
Read moreISSUES & NEW PERSPECTIVES By Lucky Rosenbloom I have to ask this question: What kind of messages are Democrats sending...
Read moreLITTLE BY LITTLE By Matthew Little An early April edition of JET magazine contained a feature news item titled “The...
Read moreVOICES OF THE VILLAGE by Lissa Jones “After I was placed in the cell, I began to hear sounds of...
Read moreTHROUGH MY EYES by Ron Edwards During his address to the nation on Libya on Monday, March 28, 2011, at...
Read moreSOMETHING I SAID by Dwight Hobbes After careful consideration, this column might, on occasion, be, shall we say, a bit...
Read morePASTOR'S CORNER By Mary Flowers Spratt Is special education failing your child? What are you doing about it? These are...
Read more“Our Black-White jobless gap worst in the nation,” a recent Star Tribune headline read. “Worst in the Nation” stood out...
Read moreI find it interesting that, in all the protests throughout the Middle East, the Iraq protests are the only ones...
Read moreDid you ever stop to take note of the many basketball tournaments that take place this time of year? They...
Read more“The pot was empty,/ The cupboard was bare./I said, Papa,/What’s the matter here?/I’m waitin’ on Roosevelt, son,/ Roosevelt, Roosevelt,/Waitin’ on...
Read moreLast week’s column reported three Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) personnel who have emerged as heroes in exposing serious...
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