For area homeowners, weekends in April are often set aside for spring cleaning. The story is quite the same for Twin Cites nonprofits who need help with landscape clean-up, sorting and pitching, painting, general fix-up and more at their respective facilities. And Comcast reached out to lend a helping hand.
In the words of Dr. Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), one of the largest non-governmental educational organizations in the world, now reaching nearly 140 million people in nine countries. "We thought nationally, worked locally, and looked for inspiration globally."
Minneapolis resident Manu Lewis has spent the past four years working to turn his life around and give back to society despite his criminal record. "I do a lot of volunteer work. I do a lot of community work," he said. "I do a lot of organizing within the community that I reside in, but the fact still remains that society still sees me as a convicted felon. So no matter how much time I volunteer, no matter how many good deeds I try to do, I always have that stigma attached to me." He looks to people like Michelle Alexander who are "trying to overthrow some of these policies that are keeping the community held hostage."
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As President Obama continues to underscore the need to increase the college-educated workforce significantly by 2020, all except two states have slashed their funding for higher education.
[Editor's Note: This is the second of two stories by NNPA Washington Correspondents Freddie Allen and Maya Rodan examining how federal loan problems are hurting Black students in college.]
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is revered a symbol of strength and courage during a time of great strife and upheaval.
WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Marie Johns, the retired president of Washington Verizon, was busy managing a consulting firm when she received an unexpected call three years ago from the White House.
Economic empowerment is the next phase of the civil rights movement.
Even though the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled against her, Dorothy Dunning is fighting on in her quest to gain custody of her granddaughters.
If a person were to only judge African-American culture based solely on the majority of television programming currently being offered, the representation would be quite sad.
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