Less than a month before the Midterm elections, Professor Duchess Harris has released a new book, “Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump,” that examines the role of Black feminism in the era of President Donald Trump.
Time for some frank realities.
Kari Davis has been announced as the new branch director of the YMCA at the Cora McCorvey Center, 1015 N. 4th Ave., Minneapolis (formerly Heritage Park YMCA).
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Insight News founder and editor-in-chief, Al McFarlane, recently appeared on Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) to discuss race and the media. Below is a link to the Sept. 28 MPR conversation.
Yet again, the Black man is the ‘suspect’
My name is Abeni Hill and I am having a crisis … a quarter-life crisis.
The violence this past weekend in Charlottesville, Va., further underscores the urgency of rooting out domestic terrorists who have become more emboldened during the political rise of their chosen leader – now president – Donald Trump.
Commentary by Harry Colbert, Jr., Managing Editor
Latest shooting shows her officers lack training, prone to violence
Where was Chief Harteau’s statement when her officers killed Jamar Clark?
On Feb. 20 the United Nations declared a state of famine in South Sudan. Man-made crisis and conflict had left 4.9 million in need of urgent food assistance and at least 100,000 in immediate danger of death by starvation.
By Julio E. Vega Cedeño
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By Harry Colbert, Jr., Managing Editor
Editor’s note: One of the photos that accompanies this commentary is graphic in nature but was included to underscore the urgent need for us to address the issue of violence within our community.
By Harry Colbert, Jr.
By Julianne Malveaux
Dear Editor:
By Glenn Ellis
Now is the time for all of us to contact your mayor and your city council members with specific and concrete proposals to change the racist nature of the police and city government.
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By Harry Colbert, Jr.
I was angry when some said we should stop watching and disseminating the video of the police murder of Philando Castile with absolutely no justification.
Commentary by Matthew C. Nelson, National Chair, National Society of Black Engineers
By Harry Colbert, Jr.
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Richland County Senior Deputy Sheriff Ben Fields seemed to think the only way he could get a young black girl out of her seat was to fling her across the room. His brutal attack on her was filmed by one of her classmates, and it’s a good thing he documented the incident. It was said that the…
Saint Paul is following the lead of Minneapolis and considering an ordinance designed to protect our young people from the harms of flavored tobacco. This ordinance will remove candy and fruity-flavored tobacco, including tropical fusion cigars, berry chewing tobacco, pineapple shisha, and c…
There is an old African proverb that says: “Where you put your wealth signifies where and how your life’s priorities are ordered.” Such is the case when one views where and how corporate America invests its wealth beyond the boardroom and the stock market. There are some companies, however, …
The news of the suspension of longtime Twin Cities attorney Herbert Igbanugo hit the community like a thunderbolt this past May. The Minnesota Supreme Court suspended the high profile Mr. Igbanugo for three months.
Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last 20 years share one thing in common: all of the perpetrators were suffering or had suffered from some form of mental illness. Although most of the mass murderers were white, it is an issue that quietly ravages the Black community.
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