When President Franklin Roosevelt signed the GI Bill into law on June 22, 1944, it laid the foundation for benefits that would help generations of veterans achieve social mobility.Formally known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, the bill made unprecedented commitments to the nati…
Giving birth is one of the most magical moments in life. But when you slam dunk and bring twins into the world, it’s double magic.
The case of Amber Guyger and Botham Jean is the most sobering example of implicit bias and the need for a retraining of police throughout our nation.
Jeffrey Epstein has been headline news since his now definitive suicide on Aug. 10 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.
I woke from a crazy dream at about 4 a.m.
Months after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam came under fire for the racist images on his yearbook page from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1984, he remains in office, a battered and chastised, public figure.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines environmental justice as, “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulat…
“Over the past 12 years there have been some 12,000 police shootings … only 95 have been prosecuted and less than half of those successfully prosecuted … this was one.”
“I’m A Rican” my brother Luis Mario Robles, Jr. use to say with his strong Brooklyn accent and a bit of swagger and attitude for effect.
Recently, I had the chance to experience a life-changing event. That’s right, I had that chance and I’m only13-years-old and in the 8th grade. What did I do, you may ask? Well, it was something I had looked forward to since I was five-years-old.
Politics is certainly a contact sport, but for Rep. Ilhan Omar it’s turning into a blood sport and we must speak out in support of Minnesota’s Fifth District representative.
Our recent journey to Egypt put us in Cairo during the Coptic Christian New Year celebration. It was as an emotionally stirring time. A large bustling city in the North, Cairo was on high alert with armed guards and military tanks positioned throughout the city.
Since 2006 Angie Hall Sandifer has been creating fashionable unique designer hats from her studio in Lowertown St. Paul.
At this point I'm convinced these so-called luxury brands are intentionally coming out with racist concept lines (that they really didn't plan on releasing) just to get the free press that comes with the controversy.
So it seems calling out isms is a partisan activity.
The term Black power was coined in 1954 by Richard Write, the African-American author of novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction.
I was in the middle of writing another commentary – one on the need to retrain police on how to deal with calls on those suffering from mental breaks – but I had to stop in the middle to type this instead.
There’s no question that education quality has an extraordinary impact on the future lives of students.
In 2019, we will commemorate 400 years since the first 20 slaves were transported by ship from Africa by white slave traders and landed in Jamestown, Va.
Editor’s note: Victor Martinez, a Henry High School student leader a little over a decade ago, shares a lifechanging message of life lessons he learned as he searched for the love of his life. He reveals a framework for getting everything you want out of life and more. Martinez now pastors a…
Kwanzaa is an African-American holiday, which acknowledges the achievements of Black people, yet it is more.
Minnesota African American Heritage Calendar Committee (MAAHC), announced the MAAHC Honorees for 2019.
Linda Radimecky holds the key to another world, one that’s accessible only part of the year.
Like any chef, Jametta Raspberry’s fondest food memories stem from childhood, and from heritage.
NAMI Minnesota (National Alliance on Mental Illness) presented Resmaa Menakem, author and trauma specialist, with a Professional of the Year Award at its annual conference, held Nov. 3 in St. Paul.
The 2018 midterms were of the most historic election cycle of our lifetimes.
The ACLU of Minnesota will honor Eric Janus with its 22nd annual Earl Larson Award and the NAACP Minneapolis with its first Changemaker Award.
Summit University Planning Council
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) cleared the path for construction to begin on the Southwest Light Rail Transit Project (SWLRT).
Elliot Park Neighborhood, Inc. (EPNI) Board of Directors sent its official recommendations to the Minneapolis Parks Planning Department for 2019 park improvements.
Architecture surrounds everything that we do.
GIN – Cash money makes things happen.
GIN – Dar es Salaam’s governor, Paul Makonda, has begun urging citizens to report homosexuals for round-ups, sending hundreds of LGBTQ activists into hiding to avoid arrest.
GIN – Forced labor tolerated by the Mauritanian government was called a decisive factor in the U.S. decision this week to end favored nation trade status for the country as of Jan. 1.
This week, I wanted to take a moment to shine a little “purple spotlight” on a brother doing important work by maintaining positivity, purple music, and philanthropy, wherever he goes, Craig Alexander of Prince Day Houston.
When is the right time to teach young Black children how to navigate through society?
When talking about elections, I always say it’s a marathon not a sprint.
DALLAS – “Even boys 10 to 16 years old felt the whip. There was no such thing as a good slave owner” – Tom Nash, Monticello tour guide.
Throughout my life, I have seen great advances in the cause of civil rights. I have been honored to work alongside many other community activists, leaders and elected officials to achieve some of those steps – including passage of Minnesota's landmark anti-discrimination laws in the 1950s an…
The Mid-Western Region of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., recently participated in Mid-Western Region Fall Area Workday Clusters at the Doubletree Hotel in Bloomington.
Keith Ellison’s plan to become Minnesota’s next Attorney General has emerged as a lightning rod attracting venomous vitriol in a toxic and dangerous political environment.
The right of Black people to vote has been opposed since the passing of 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1870, which granted Blacks access to the ballot.
Let us be clear, the stakes couldn’t be much higher than they are with the looming Nov. 6 midterm elections.
Since moving to Minneapolis in 1990, my career in public policy has included organizer for the Whittier Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP), the first approved by the city of Minneapolis, consultant to various neighborhoods NRP plans, tenant’s rights organizer in St. Paul, executive di…
“We bled, we got beat, we went to jail, we got murdered. Pay up.” said Harry “Spike” Moss. “Make sure they (young people) understand that there is a debt to be paid. We didn’t do any of this in vain.”
It is no accident that the very first amendment to the United States Constitution ensures the right to a free press.
Throughout my life, I have seen great advances in the cause of civil rights. I have been honored to work alongside many other community activists, leaders and elected officials to achieve some of those steps – including passage of Minnesota's landmark anti-discrimination laws in the 1950s an…
Some of us are so “woke” we’re sleepwalking.
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