Terrance Gaines is a husband, father and sought after IT professional, consultant, and personal technology specialist, and data security expert. Better known as “BrothaTech,” Gaines has been featured in PC Mag, Black Enterprise and Ebony magazines as both a guest and contributor. 

Minnesota-based co-owners of Revel Avila, Micah McFarlane and acclaimed chef Hector Ruiz, are reveling over the attention their spirit is receiving around the country. The July issue of The Spirits Business features Revel in a cover story which discusses the rise in popularity of agave spiri…

One of the primary rules of celebrating Juneteenth is that you must eat and/or drink something red to honor the blood shed by enslaved Africans. Eating red food can come in many forms from red beans and rice, red velvet cake and fruit like watermelon, strawberries and raspberries. But you re…

DETROIT – The Boys & Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan (BGCSM) has recruited major star power to help raise funds for their COVID-19 relief efforts.

Gov. Tim Walz today issued Executive Order 20-38, which expands allowable outdoor recreational activities.

 Front-line responders are putting their safety on the line every day to ensure the health and well-being of the Minneapolis community during the current COVID-19 Pandemic and Tide would like to help lighten the load on them and their immediate family members. 

Kobi Gregory a junior at DeLaSalle High school is has been described as cheerful, nurturing, adventurous and funny. She can now add philanthropist to the list.

While the emergency order from Governor Tim Walz prohibits the general public from dining and drinking inside Minnesota bars and restaurants through March 27th, it does allow these businesses to sell food and drink for take-out, delivery and curbside pickup.

The Northside Oral History Project is giving North Minneapolis residents a platform to share their stories.

I only lasted five hours.

Don’t let the name fool you, the French Hen Café is plating up soul-satisfying meals without the pretenses of haute cuisine. 

The owners of Heritage Tea House want to thank it businesses supporters as it closes its doors after two years of operation. 

In a moving tribute, the Minnesota Vikings honored 100-year-old World War II veteran Ray Robinson prior to primetime home game at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Chef and restaurateur Justin Sutherland has been named Eater – Twin Cities Chef of the Year.

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. 

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.