This year the motivational messages that honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Minneapolis MLK Holiday Breakfast on Monday, January 16 will be available to listeners on 830 AM WCCO Radio starting at 8 am.
Special Editions
Each year the MSR recognizes and celebrates MLK Jr. Day, Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Juneteenth and Black Music Month. In this space, find stories pertaining to each special edition as categorized.
Posted inMLK Legacy Section, Opinion, Special Editions
Some never tire of abusing Dr. King’s legacy
Reading Dr. King and reviewing his speeches will give anyone a rounded picture of him that can allow us to truly cast our comments about him in the light of truth and of what he would likely approve.
Posted inLocal & State, MLK Legacy Section, News, Special Editions
2023 MLK Calendar of Events
Find MLK Holiday happenings in the Twin Cities and beyond.
Posted inLocal & State, MLK Legacy Section, News, Special Editions
MLK in 2022: ‘Has the hour yet come to get rid of racism?’
How do King’s words, life and legacy resonate in our current times? Community members sound off.
Posted inBlack History Month
How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America
The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group featured in a new movie and a documentary, helps illustrate how cartography—the practice of making and using maps—can illuminate injustice.
Posted inBlack History Month, Featured
Reparations? Not until hostilities cease
We’ve gone from disbelief and surrender to fervent belief and critical mass activism to secure reparations.
Posted inBlack History Month, Special Editions, Sports
The truth about traveling football trophies
These traveling trophies—the Little Brown Jug and the Floyd of Rosedale Pig—have a deep history of incidents of racism and pride from former and present student athletes of African American descent.
Posted inBlack History Month, Featured
Early reparation ideas for freed slaves
The idea for land redistribution for former slaves had been tossed about by abolitionists long before it was implemented with the agreement worked out in Savannah between the U.S. government and 20 Black preachers (see last week’s story “The origin of a revolutionary idea: 40 acres and a mule”). There were several proposals brought forward, […]
Posted inBlack History Month, Featured
The limiting framework of reparations
Reparations become a limiting framework in which justice is conceived of as coming almost exclusively from existing legal and power structures.
Posted inBlack History Month, Featured
The origin of a revolutionary idea: 40 acres and a mule
The original idea for redistributing 40 acres of formerly Confederate land to newly freed African slaves was the brainchild of a group of 20 Black preachers
Posted inBlack History Month, Featured
The St. Augustine Four is a vital part of Black history
Despite the rich African American history, St. Augustine remained one of the hottest beds of White supremacy and White privilege.
Posted inBlack History Month
Slave-built infrastructure still creates U.S. wealth, suggesting reparations should cover past and current value of slavery
The fact that centuries-old relics of slavery still support the economy of the United States suggests that reparations for slavery would need to go beyond government payments.
Posted inBlack History Month, Featured
Black Inventors and Innovators: Frederick McKinley Jones
Frederick McKinley Jones invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks.
Posted inBlack History Month
When Black kids—shut out from the world of children’s lit—took matters into their own hands
The Brownies’ Book gave African American children a platform to explore their lives, interests and aspirations.
Posted inBlack History Month, Featured
Reparations: a philosophical exploration
Of all the details that need to be addressed in devising a workable plan for reparations, perhaps none is as immediate as the question of reparations for what, exactly?
Posted inBlack History Month, Featured
2021 Black History Month online events (updated)
Enjoy a few of the many local online events in honor of Black History Month.
Posted inBlack History Month, Featured
The Ebenezer Creek Massacre, a prelude to ‘40 Acres and a Mule’
Thousands of freed slaves drowned at Ebenezer Creek after the Union army betrayed and abandoned them.
Posted inBlack History Month, Featured, National, News
Biden administration to ‘speed up’ Harriet Tubman $20 bill redesign delayed by Trump
‘The Treasury Department is taking steps to put Harriet Tubman on the front of the new $20 notes,’ White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.
Posted inBlack History Month, MLK Legacy Section, Opinion, Special Editions
MLK influence felt in George Floyd protests
People across the world took to the streets to nonviolently protest the police killing of George Perry Floyd in their cities.
Posted inBlack History Month, MLK Legacy Section, National, News, Special Editions
MLK called for a revolution of values
MLK’s speech “Beyond Vietnam,” delivered at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, spoke out against U.S. violence and the war in Vietnam.