It is nearly a year away, but the 2012 Summer Olympics will impact the 2012 WNBA regular season. “The WNBA traditionally stops the season to allow the players to play in [the Olympics],” notes USA Basketball Women’s National Team Director Carol Callan on the fact that the start of next year’s WNBA season will coincide […]
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SECOND TIME AROUND By Judeth Hence—Creating lifelong memories, grandparent to grandchild
Holidays and summer are at the center of our childhood. I was moved by the genuineness of this quote: “Nothing is more powerful than the memories created by a child’s experiences.” (www.westarkchurchof christ.org) We are adults, but we hold tightly to childhood moments. For me, it was family get-togethers. Every other year, relatives would arrive […]
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Trinity Goodheart premiers on GMC-TV—By Charles Hallman, Staff Writer
Eric Benet stars in his first dramatic lead role as a single parent of a teen in Trinity Goodheart, an original movie on GMC TV and will premiere on Saturday, August 20, at 8 pm central time. Based on an original screenplay by Rhonda Baraka, Trinity Goodheart is the name of a smart, independent young […]
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Rondo area meeting gives voice to community concerns to education—By Charles Hallman, Staff Writer
The new school year will begin in a couple of weeks, and a local group of parents are asking what it will take to provide excellent education for every child in every neighborhood. Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) held an open discussion Saturday, August 13, at Rondo Library in St. Paul. According to NOC organizer […]
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Sanchez, Malveaux inspire Pan African women—By Vickie Evans-Nash, Contributing Writer
“When you talk about Africa and Pan African women. you talk about multiculturalism… If you don’t believe it, all you have to do is just look at us and you see that,” said Sonya Sanchez to a room of approximately 250 women of many languages and ethnic backgrounds dressed in colorful fabrics that reflected the […]
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Northside Community Response Team promises new level of accountability, transparency—NCRT responds to MSR—By Charles Hallman, Staff Writer
Last Sunday marked three months since a tornado struck parts of North Minneapolis. Nearly 60 local organizations, agencies, churches and other entities helped formed the Northside Community Response Team (NCRT), which has been meeting weekly to help residents in the recovery effort. The Minneapolis Foundation established a recovery fund, and over $1.3 million dollars has […]
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Campaign proposed to curb disrespect—By Charles Hallman, Staff Writer
A citywide Community Standards Initiative (CSI) has been proposed to establish positive standards and values for youth that are acceptable in homes, schools and the community. And it’s not just for the youth, but for adults as well, community activist Al Flowers told the MSR last week. Part of the plan includes a series of […]
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Men’s health the focus of Hue-Man kickoff—By James L. Stroud, Jr., Contributing Writer
When you put a hyphen after the word Hue and connect it with the word Man, you get Hue-Man. If you look up the word hue in a thesaurus, you get some of the following words: shade, tone, tinge, tint and color. That is exactly what the organizers of the Hue-Man Partnership Project of Minneapolis […]
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An unlikely partnership challenges societal norms in The Help—By Charles Hallman, Staff Writer
PHILADELPHA — If you want to see Black history told from a rarely heard point of view — the Black maid — then The Help will provide that opportunity. Even as the Civil Rights Movement was reaching a seismic and profound change in this country during the early to mid-1960s, the South still was clearly […]
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THROUGH MY EYES By Ron Edwards—Without MPD narcotics unit, drugs flow freely in Black community
In very early June of 2011, a community resident by the name of Johnny Turnipseed raised a very serious and profound question at a press conference being held by the tornado recovery team. His question had to do with the aftermath of the tornado and damage to homes: How were the authorities going to deal […]
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Why would St. Cloud State inflate Black graduation numbers?—By Myrtle Cooper, Guest Commentator
By Myrle Cooper Guest Commentator St. Cloud’s racist environment probably costs St. Cloud State University (SCSU) more Black students than combined academic and financial difficulties. SCSU provided Black student graduation information in response to a Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request (July 2010). The data received ranged from apparently accurate to complex and confusing to […]
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VOICES OF THE VILLAGE By Lissa Jones—A new language can help heal the village
“It is very nearly impossible…to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. “ — James Baldwin Last Thursday, the community launched its own campaign to restore respect in the way we speak to each other, about one another, and in how we relate to one another. In a culture […]
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TRYING MY BEST By Frank Erickson—White Norway terrorist exposes glaring bias
Now there is a new not-so-secret-anymore floating “terror detention” ship, a U.S. Navy ship that recently held a “Somali militant” for up to two months. That’s a lot of time to torture someone… I’m sorry, to “interrogate” someone. It is safe to say that this floating torture vessel will not be heading up to the […]
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THE POWER OF MENTORING By Nancy Torrison—The unsung heroes… resourceful single moms
Angela Young is a single mother of three children. Her home was recently damaged in the tornado that swept across North Minneapolis May 22. She and her children are living in a hotel in Brooklyn Park and are dealing with the multitude of challenges that come along after losing a home and experiencing the trauma […]
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ANOTHER VIEW By Charles Hallman—WNBA diversity still far from ideal
The WNBA is the diversity leader among America’s professional sports leagues, according to the Institute for Diversity in Sports’ (TIDES) latest racial and gender report card. This is the eighth time that Richard Lapchick’s group has awarded the WNBA at least an A grade for race (2001, 2004, 2005, 2006-07, 2008, 2009, 2010 and now […]
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FITZ BEAT By Larry Fitzgerald—Vikings improve, win 20-7
Last year the Vikings missed the playoffs, winning just six games. After beating Seattle 20-7 Saturday on the road, the team took a big step towards establishing that 2011 is not a rebuilding year. When you are in the division of the defending Super Bowl champion that includes two playoff teams and NFC runner-up Chicago, […]
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Gopher notebook: Black student- athletes reunion coming—By Charles Hallman, Staff Writer
By Charles Hallman Staff Writer Calling all Black Minnesota Golden Gopher alumni! The second annual African American student-athletes reunion will be held September 16-17. Around 80 Black former players attended last year’s inaugural get-together, recalls U of M Special Events Director Linda Roberts. She hopes to double that attendance this year. The theme this year […]
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PREP SCENE By Mitch McDonald—High school football is back
The prep football season has arrived as schools across the state begin their second week of practice in preparation for their first games next week. The publication of this picture featuring St. Paul Central’s Gabriel Williams (28) blocking for Malik Glass (25) signifies the beginning of the high school football season. Central won the St. […]
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Movie The Help looks at American history from Blacks perspective—By Charles Hallman, Staff Writer
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — If you want to see Black history told from a rarely heard point of view — the Black maid — then The Help will provide that opportunity. Even as the Civil Rights Movement was reaching a seismic and profound change in this country’s South during the early to mid-1960s, the South still […]
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McDonald’s ‘Wise Owl’ helped him speak the truth—By Vickie Evans-Nash, Contributing Writer
In 1959, Kwame McDonald came to the Twin Cities as director of employment and guidance in charge of job development and education at the St. Paul Urban League. He was introduced to the MSR — at that time the Minneapolis Spokesman and the St. Paul Recorder — through writing stories about the Urban League in […]