The Northstar Link shutdown has ended a key transit connection from St. Cloud to the Twin Cities, leaving commuters without reliable options.
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New Gophers ready to show Minnesota what they can do
Lu’Cye Patterson, Femi Odukale, and Frank Mitchell are three of eleven newcomers on the Minnesota men’s basketball team, bringing a wealth of experience and physicality to the team.
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Donaldson one of many pre-integration Black players MLB may overlook
John Donaldson, a legendary Black pitcher who amassed over 420 wins and over 5,200 strikeouts in over 700 games.
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MN poised to complete one of nation’s largest solar farms after permit vote
Construction of the final phase of the nation’s largest solar energy development, the Sherco coal plant site, has been approved by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.
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St. Cloud: No MN community has paid a higher price for its pathological racism
Witnesses told police the racist man attacked the Black man first with a bottle causing facial lacerations. Then, he continued to attacked by swinging a large strap with metal hooks, charging at him with an ax, running him over with a truck and threatening to hang him from a tree – all while yelling racial slurs.
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White Cloud: St. Cloud’s pride-filled racism to blame for job and student losses
Saying that St. Cloud, Minnesota (best known and ridiculed as “White Cloud”) suffers from its history of incompetence and racism is a gross understatement.
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‘Emancipation procession’ reaches City Hall
An “emancipation procession” led by La Asamblea de Derechos Civiles (The Assembly for Civil Rights) made its way from Brooklyn Center to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey’s office on Monday afternoon. “We are here to show the dignity of immigrants who are often criminalized and marginalized,”
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St. Cloud racism continues
Recently, a Black family with three foster children in Delano, Minnesota, was targeted by typical racist White “have-nots” like those associated with St. Cloud (“White Cloud”). “Have-nots” defined here are cultural, intellectual and psychological beggars desperately using racism for self-esteem. (“Racist graffiti found inside Delano family’s home;” WCCO-TV, March 16, 2017) Delano Mayor Dale Graunke […]
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St. Cloud racism: NAACP Stockholm Syndrome victims ignore Somalis
If frustration with Booker T. Washington’s accommodationist or gradualist approach to attacking racism resulted in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the strategy failed in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Anyone familiar with St. Cloud’s (“white Cloud’s”) history knows effective but infrequent punishments for racism were imposed before Somali students became active and […]
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Somali community under scrutiny
Can St. Cloud and the Twin Cities heal? Hostility and uneasiness between Muslims and the Christian population of St. Cloud, Minnesota, are well known and documented. In fact, Ethiopian students at St. Cloud State University were the first to bring attention to the problems of religion and race in St. Cloud. As its Somali community […]