Young under-the-radar hoopsters get a chance to show their stuff
Brian Sandifer’s idea to host a prep boys’ basketball game wasn’t anything new, but his approach was, to say the ...
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Remembering Lillian Anderson, Minneapolis’ first civil rights director
Longtime friend Josie Johnson offers tribute to ‘a tough sister’ By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Asked which adjectives she’d ...
Gopher fans’ website doesn’t play fair
Some all-sports websites and fan “chat rooms” are as fair and balanced as Fox News. MSR Columnist Ron Edwards ...
What happened to Terence Franklin is inexcusable
By Wayne Nealis Guest Commentator I wish to applaud the Spokesman and the ...
The chief reaches out — Harteau meets with Black officers
The last couple of months have been challenging for the administration of Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau. She ...
“We didn’t know!” Really?
Everybody pretends ignorance or amnesia on Zygi’s dealings Many intelligent, knowledgeable people purposefully said they were surprised by the 21-year-old ...
What it’s like to be Black in the MPD — The chance for another Cincinnati?
One cannot begin to understand the current racial tensions within the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) until one reviews ...
God bless Rachel Jeantel, a courageous witness
During the first week of July, some in America showed their true colors by once again viciously attacking, ...
Snowden, Hastings and surveillance? Were they right?
The ‘here we go again’ relevance for Black America Young journalists stepped forward to warn again how we ...
Mpls police killed T.T. Franklin for being Black — Racism, individual and institutional, is alive and well in our fair city
There was a lot of hatred directed at and rained down upon T.T. Franklin May 10 in that poorly ...
Justice for David Cornelius Smith — David C. Smith In spite of obstruction of justice from the Mpls. Civil Rights Dept.
On Friday, May 24, 2013, Minneapolis City Council awarded $3.75 million to the family of David C. Smith, ...
Unanswered questions still cloud police shooting of T.T. Franklin
The Star Tribune’s headline of May 18, 2013: “Sources: Burglary suspect fired shots that injured Minneapolis Officers.” What about ...
Terrance Terrell Franklin’s police-shooting death — Many questions remain unanswered
Terrance Terrell Franklin died at the hands of the Minneapolis police in the basement of a home at ...
Changing of the guard with the T-Wolves
Flip Saunders’ good calculations will replace David Kahn’s poor ones Because of my November 7, 2012 column (“The ...
Update on MPD’s 2012 assault on Ames Elks Lodge — No contact with MPD for over a year
My May 2, 2012 headline was about the April 21, 2012 assault by the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) ...
People’s Stadium in trouble! — Can the funding really be found?
How does “the People’s Stadium” stand at this hour? Answer: wobbly, as we see from the fierce and ...
Terror in Boston? Terror in America!
How fragile is our precarious democracy in the face of senseless violence? Two explosions exposed the fragile state of our precarious ...
Legislature caught whistling in the dark — Financial problems for Viking stadium construction project
For years I have defined as ill-conceived any planning that mostly serves the planners and their agency/bosses and ...
Congratulations, Tubby!
Texas Tech hires Tubby Smith while U of M keeps looking There is no mystery about the well-designed ...
Thank you Tubby for an excellent run! — Tubby Smith: a man of principle and integrity
First things first: we join and support the observations made by our longtime friend Sid Hartman in his ...
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