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Strib takes wrong side in Target stores dispute
People who think that the owners of big business newspapers like the Star Tribune don’t take the side ...
Why some Blacks shun the Occupy movement
The Occupy Wall Street actions have given us an opportunity to reflect upon where Black folks are these days ...
U.S. meddling in Somalia is divisive
What took place during the trial of the Somali women Amina Farah Ali and Hawo Mohamed Hassan, who were ...
Ghettophysics: Film claims we all live in ‘pimps and hos’ system
A movie review By Mel Reeves Contributing Writer The creator of GhettoPhysics has tapped into something that is slowly seeping ...
Will ‘good faith efforts’ get Blacks light rail jobs?
Current construction along the CCLRT line -Photo by James L. Stroud, Jr. News Analysis “Where are the Black people?” has ...
‘The Help’ exposes hidden wounds of Jim Crow racism
The movie The Help has been well reviewed and critiqued at this point, with some finding it wanting. And there ...
‘U scandal’ exposes U.S. hypocrisy, unfairness
At bottom, the so-called “U scandal” at the University of Miami is just another example of the inequity and hypocrisy ...
Even Miami Heat-hating is political
More than folks realize was riding on the NBA championship series. In class society, everything, and I mean everything, counts. ...
Mainstream media puts same old negative spin on Northside with tornado stories
Folks often wonder how racial stereotypes and misperceptions became so imbedded in the U.S. psyche. The answer of course is ...
Relief efforts sweep through North Minneapolis
Photos by James L. Stroud, Jr. News Analysis By Mel Reeves Contributing Writer The tornado of 2011 — or the ...
Fifty years later, Freedom Riders’ courage still needed
MELLANEOUS By Mel Reeves ”This is the story of young people at great personal risk who set out to make ...
TakeAction Minnesota opposes ex-offender discrimination
TakeAction Minnesota last month hosted a forum to elicit support for its “Justice 4 All” fair hiring campaign. Speakers included ...
What the U.S. really stands for (and it’s not justice)
MELLANEOUS By Mel Reeves “There is pride in what this nation stands for,” President Obama recently said before a cheering ...
Disputes among the famous heighten need for Black consensus
MELLANEOUS By Mel Reeves Anyone who has been paying attention to the news of late couldn’t help but notice that ...
Republicans seek drastic cuts in MN Human Rights Department
By Mel Reeves Contributing Writer “They seem intent on taking away the state’s ability to fight for equal rights. We ...
Process concerns aside, Black Economic Summit delivered the right message
MELLANEOUS By Mel Reeves I attended Governor Mark Dayton’s Black Economic Summit a few weeks ago, and like most of ...
Minnesota Not-So-Nice reveals Black unemployment stats
“Our Black-White jobless gap worst in the nation,” a recent Star Tribune headline read. “Worst in the Nation” stood out ...
Propaganda war divides those of us who work for a living
Whether we are aware of it or not, most of us hold values and ideas that are in direct contradiction ...
WI gov’t workers’ rights struggle a lesson for all workers
If you work for a living, what happened in Wisconsin is a good thing on lots of levels. There was ...
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