Community

Dads: May I have this dance?

Tuesday, 26 February 2013 09:41

Positive Image 1st Annual Father Daughter Dance was held at the Crowne Plaza in Brooklyn Center, on Sunday, February 10, 2013. A community-sponsored, formal, elegant and fun-filled evening for girls ages 5 years and over, and the special men in their lives.

Irma McClaurin keynotes Black Nurses Association gala

Monday, 25 February 2013 13:24

Dr. Irma McClaurin, former President of Shaw University, former University of Minnesota Associate VP and Founding Executive Director of UROC, and Ford Foundation Program Officer, 6pm Saturday, March 9, 2013 delivers the keynote address for the Minnesota Chapter of National Black Nurses Association, (MNBNA) fundraising gala.

Dayton appoints Judge Alexander to 4th judicial district

Tuesday, 12 February 2013 11:36

Governor Mark Dayton announced the appointment of Judge Pamela G. Alexander as District Court Judge in Minnesota's Fourth Judicial District. Judge Alexander will be replacing The Honorable Robert A. Blaeser, who recently retired. The judgeship will be chambered at Minneapolis in Hennepin County.

Occupy organizer acquitted of assault charges at Freddie Mac law firm

Tuesday, 12 February 2013 11:21 Sunny

Last week a Ramsey County jury found Anthony Newby, executive director of Neighborhoods Organizing for Change, not guilty on assault charges. An employee of a law firm representing Freddie Mac, a primary target of the housing justice movement, pressed charges after a peaceful protest March 1, 2012.

WORDS FROM THE WISE: America's oldest park ranger brings Black History to life

Tuesday, 12 February 2013 11:13 New America Media/Richmond Pulse, Profile, Malcolm Marshall

RICHMOND, Calif.--Betty Reid-Soskin is America's oldest National Park Ranger and one of the most beautiful people I have met in Richmond, Calif., across the bay from San Francisco.

Call 911 for suspicious activity, emergencies and crimes in progress

Tuesday, 12 February 2013 10:47

There have been reports of burglaries in some city neighborhoods recently so now is a good reminder that the City of Minneapolis wants residents to call 911 to report any suspicious activity, crimes in progress and anytime folks need the police, fire, or ambulance to respond.

First Black nurse in Army Nurse Corps honored; anniversary celebrated

Monday, 11 February 2013 13:01

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (February 1, 2013) – Army ROTC and the College of Veterinary Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health helped to celebrate the achievements of one of black American history's pioneering professionals, Della H. Rainey, Feb. 1 in Basil O'Connor Hall. During WWII, Rainey became the first black nurse commissioned as a lieutenant in the United States' Army Nurse Corps and the first nurse to become part of the Tuskegee Airmen.