Veterans Day has always been an important day of reflection for me.

They served out of a sense of duty … whether voluntary or mandated … but most importantly, they served with honor.

The Midtown Phillips Neighborhood Association, Inc. (MPNAI) has issued an open call for visual artists to work with community outreach partners to create public art on utility boxes in the neighborhood. 

The Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, Inc. celebrates its 90th year of service with its annual gala, A Night at the Q. 

The Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery celebrates its one-year anniversary with its Northern Lights Gala on Friday (Sept. 27).

August is National Breastfeeding Month, and peer counselors at Hennepin County Public Health have been working to identify and overcome barriers that women (families, really) of color face to adopt the practice of breastfeeding for babies and moms.

If like me, you find 48 degrees to be a nearly perfect temperature, visit the cave and beat the heat.

PaviElle, Maria Isa, Mac Irv, Queen and Poets from Just Write Now, KPW, the ARTS-Us Youth Drummers and Dancers, and DJ Digie will perform at the 4th Annual Central Honors Philando, Aug. 18.

The nation’s first, permanent, public memorial to honor survivors of sexual violence will break ground at Boom Island Park (near the footbridge to Nicollet Island) in Minneapolis on Aug. 8. at 10 a.m.

Lea Olsen, former collegiate athlete and current sports broadcaster, is seeking to change the way we talk about youth athletics through a platform called Rethink the Win.

When my husband and I decided to start a family, we promised ourselves that having kids wouldn’t mean abandoning our active lifestyle.

Most go through a journey of finding a passion and purpose, but for Ivy McGregor, her light was destined to shine from a young age. 

‘Dream Big’

The Twin Cities Black Affinity group will host its spring biannual Twin Cities Black Affinity Network Development Day (TC BANDD) at the Cargill headquarters,15407 McGinty Rd. W., Wayzata this coming Saturday (June 22).

The jeow mak len explodes on the tongue in a scattering of spicy-sweet. Tiger’s eye fish sauce melds with mortar-and-pestled bits of cilantro, chili, tomato, shallot, and garlic– a conspiracy of flavors bordering on fatal.

Twin Cities artist Jessica Winnie has released her second book of poetry, “Everything I Am,” a reflective account of a journey through the life of a young woman raised by an activist family and community.

U.S. Navy Electrician’s Mate 1st Class Jamies Halstead, from Minneapolis, eats breakfast with students during a community outreach event at the Saint-Louis Primary School in Marseille, France, April 30. Sailors assigned to the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group (JCSCSG) volunteered at the …

It is common knowledge that the relationship between mothers and daughters or older and younger women shapes the lives of both generations.

Bronx-based graffiti artists Tats Cru – comprised of Bio, Nicer, and BG183 – has a residency at Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA).

Area author, Dr. Barbara Cole, will host a launch event for her upcoming book, “God Morning.”

Tucked between Avenue C and Clinton Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan is Adela Fargas’ tribute to her Afrodecendientes roots.

U.S. Navy Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Ibrahim Kaba (front), from Brooklyn Park, maneuvers through the ship while responding to a simulated active shooter during anti-terrorism force protection drills aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance in the Indian Ocean, March 13. The Spruance …

When Alex Watson walks through a state park, he can tell what’s going on over the next hill because of audio cues he hears from birds.

More than 800 rare black and white photographs depicting life for area Blacks in the 1940s are on display at the Hennepin Gallery.

No one has ever tried to enter NASCAR from the Navy until now.

You spend more than 90,000 hours in a lifetime at work.

Ice fishing is one of the coolest things you can do during the winter months in Minnesota … literally.

For the second year in a row Insight News was honored by the Minnesota Newspaper Association (MNA) in the Better Newspaper Contest.

From beat cop to the first African-American St. Paul Chief of Police, to Ramsey County Undersheriff ,William (Bill) Finney (aka Corky), epitomizes the spirit of public service.

More than 800 rare black and white photographs depicting life for area Blacks in the 1940s are on display at the Hennepin Gallery.  

Rajané Katurah will join the Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) Acting Company.

San Francisco — “Black Memorabilia,” A PBS documentary, explores the world of racist material, both antique and newly produced, that propagate demeaning representations of African-Americans and promotes white supremacy.

Dr. Artika Tyner, founder and executive director of Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute (PPGJLI), will be hosting a trip to Ghana in 2019 as part of what the Republic of Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo has declared “The Year of the Return.”

EAST CHINA SEA – Gas Turbine System Technician (Mechanical) 3rd Class Jonathan Pate, from Eagan, takes readings from a low pressure system aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell. McCampbell is forward-deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in suppor…

At night not too many decades into the past, Minnesotans lit the farmland and countryside only with the use of lanterns.

Nobody asked me anything while l was healing and rehabbing my injuries.

The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) has announced that Grambling State University will host the 2019 and 2020 Football National Championships at the historic Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A detail from the Navy Ceremonial Guard performed

The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that one year after the launch of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund the organization has hit a funding milestone, raising more than $10 million dollars for this $25 million initiative.