Election 2016 is heating up. Key issues for election 2016: voter suppression and immigration.

February 1, 2016, is another day that will live in infamy for our Minneapolis community, due to the disgraceful and disrespectful confrontational name-calling witnessed by both Black and White Minneapolis leaders at an event in South Minneapolis.

When it was announced that interim Superintendent Michael Goar withdrew his name for consideration for permanent superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), it exposed a weakness of the adults in whose hands and care we have placed the children, weakness in two areas.

Expectations were high that the investigation into the circumstances of Jamar Clark’s shooting death on November 15, 2015, would be handled with integrity and honesty.

As I stated in my January 8, 2014 column, “The Rooney Rule is dead”: “This is not about Affirmative Action; this is about affirmative discrimination.

On the cover of the November ForRent.com magazine is a photo of two bikini-clad White women in a swimming pool with drinks in hands.

The protest in Oregon is part of a decades-old debate regarding ownership and management of U.S. public lands by locals versus Washington, D.C. The same as in America’s inner cities.

The Star Tribune reported that the district attorney in Massachusetts launched a criminal investigation into situations on Sergio Paez’ watch. And yet he told the board there are “no issues here to discuss.”

In the November 27, 2015 edition of the Kansas City Call, the major African American newspaper in the State of Missouri, there is a picture on the front page with this headline “Protest continues in Minneapolis. Feds head to city to begin investigation.”

Why all this obsession with addressing the radicalization of young men of color? What about the radicalization of young White males who become White supremacists? Why isn’t the FBI and U.S. Attorney Andy Luger going after these guys?

In our various media platforms, we have warned that a White supremacist terrorist plot, detected November 18, could be activated against the African American community.

Police shot 24-year-old African American Jamar Clark November 15 in North Minneapolis. Mr. Clark was taken off of life support early Monday morning.

Black students figure it out — good for them

I take “full responsibility for the frustration” students expressed; their complaints were “clear” and “real. Change is needed.”

Our “Minneapolis Story” has pulled the covers back on Minneapolis for 14 years in order to expose the purposeful and systematic walls to hold back Black Americans.

I am saddened to hear of Flip Saunders passing, Sunday, October 25, 2015. Our most heartfelt condolences go out to his family, his team and to Glen Taylor and the whole Timberwolves organization.

A dangerous pattern in public safety “Gun violence is taking over the streets… The community needs peace. We need people to put the guns down.” — Janeé Harteau, Minneapolis Police Chief The “Don’t Snitch!” theme that arose five years ago in the Eastern United States (Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other large eastern cities) showed up in […]