This year the motivational messages that honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Minneapolis MLK Holiday Breakfast on Monday,...
Read moreReading Dr. King and reviewing his speeches will give anyone a rounded picture of him that can allow us to...
Read moreFind MLK Holiday happenings in the Twin Cities and beyond.
Read moreHow do King's words, life and legacy resonate in our current times? Community members sound off.
Read moreThe work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group featured in a new movie and...
Read moreWe’ve gone from disbelief and surrender to fervent belief and critical mass activism to secure reparations.
Read moreThese traveling trophies—the Little Brown Jug and the Floyd of Rosedale Pig—have a deep history of incidents of racism and...
Read moreSharecroppers, post-Civil War South The idea for land redistribution for former slaves had been tossed about by abolitionists long before...
Read moreReparations become a limiting framework in which justice is conceived of as coming almost exclusively from existing legal and power...
Read moreThe original idea for redistributing 40 acres of formerly Confederate land to newly freed African slaves was the brainchild of...
Read moreDespite the rich African American history, St. Augustine remained one of the hottest beds of White supremacy and White privilege.
Read moreThe fact that centuries-old relics of slavery still support the economy of the United States suggests that reparations for slavery...
Read moreFrederick McKinley Jones invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks.
Read moreThe Brownies’ Book gave African American children a platform to explore their lives, interests and aspirations.
Read moreOf all the details that need to be addressed in devising a workable plan for reparations, perhaps none is as...
Read moreEnjoy a few of the many local online events in honor of Black History Month.
Read moreThousands of freed slaves drowned at Ebenezer Creek after the Union army betrayed and abandoned them.
Read more'The Treasury Department is taking steps to put Harriet Tubman on the front of the new $20 notes,' White House...
Read morePeople across the world took to the streets to nonviolently protest the police killing of George Perry Floyd in their...
Read moreMLK’s speech “Beyond Vietnam,” delivered at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, spoke out against U.S....
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