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Speaking to the MSR by phone, keynote speaker ayo said her address will encourage attendees to “shift from a mindset...

While officers voiced opinions of the lack of respect by young citizens of the Twin Cities, teens voiced similar frustration...

The Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ (AWP) Annual Conference and Bookfair, which boasts of being “the largest literary conference...

The effects of living in a patriarchal, racist society measurably erode Black women’s physical and mental well being, an emerging...

Identity thieves are constantly on the prowl for your personal information. The Minnesota Department of Commerce and Better Business Bureau...

Claudette Colvin was a very young teenager, only 15 years old, when she refused to relinquish her seat in March...

Turning Point honors three community “unsung heroes” April 17 on the University of Minnesota campus. Retired University of Minnesota administrator...

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Leaders of local civil rights organizations had been taking a wait-and- see approach to the April 4...

An award-winning playwright is bringing her play about Detroit to St. Paul later this month. Dominique Morisseau is a two-time...

James Barnett, principal of Minneapolis College Preparatory School, a public charter school currently serving 9-12 grade students at the old...

Steve Wonder’s masterpiece Songs in the Key of Life proved every bit worthy of a tour some 39 years after...

While March Madness mainly focuses on the court, college basketball coaches also are fired and hired during this time as...

If the Black residents of Ferguson, Mo., want to radically reform the political climate that encouraged police to disproportionately ticket,...

Hundreds of Black women and girls representing the Black Women’s Roundtable descended on the nation’s capital last week to petition...

For more than two generations and across both Twin Cities, a father-and-son team have provided haircare services to Minnesotans. The...

“Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black male masculinity in popular American film:...

First-time novelist Kyle S. Taylor strikes an interesting note right out of the gate with Fate’s Destiny, a new twist...

MSR “contributing writer” Dwight Hobbes has contributed to just about every category of story the newspaper runs: news, features, reviews,...

The CNN newscasts and others blast headlines like, “ISIS recruits threaten to carry out assassination of Obama.” And the headlines...

Dear Doctor: My brother told me he was having surgery to treat a pilonidal cyst. He told me that the...