Race/Ethnicity

Community Empowerment through Black Men Healing Conference gives counselors tools for ‘Healing the Village’

By Dwight Hobbes, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

It is said nothing is as irresistible as an idea whose time has come. The Fifth Annual 2013 Community Empowerment through Black Men Healing Conference quite evidently fills that bill.

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Prepare and Participate: Lao American Parenting to Pursue Knowledge

By Ketmani Kouanchao, Kouanchao Corner

     Recently, a student in my program was preparing a speech, and she was moved by the words of the late El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz who said “Education is the passport to the future,

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Local churches take up fight against diabetes

By Charles Hallman, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder

Beverly Propes

Diabetes is the “gateway disease” that often can lead to other health concerns, especially for Blacks. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one of every three Blacks in this country either has diabetes or is pre-diabetic, and nearly 39 percent of Black Minnesotans’ deaths are caused by diabetes.

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COMMUNITY VOICES | Popular culture's appropriation of the Harlem Shake

By John Tanur Badgley, Community Voices

UPDATED: February of 2013 forever engrained flailing bodies, ridiculous costumes, and a deep, chopped and screwed voice commanding  everyone to “do the Harlem Shake” in the minds of h

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Something's missing at the New Bohemia Wurst & Bier Haus in Northeast Minneapolis

By Jeremy Iggers, Iggers Digest

I stopped by recently for a brat and a beer at the New Bohemia Wurst & Bier Haus, 233 E. Hennepin. It's a popular place, with more than 30 different local, regional, and foreign beers on draft and another nearly 50 different beers in bottles and cans.

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Tribal jurisdiction of some children sought

By Lee Ann Schutz Wahi, Session Weekly/Session Daily

An effort to help Native American children retain ties with their tribal communities if parental rights are terminated awaits action by the governor.

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Brooklyn Park African and African-American communities convene 350 leaders for civic engagement

By Ibrahim Hirsi, TC Daily Planet

Abdullah Kiatamba, executive director of AIS, speaks to a crowd of people during a recent civic engagement conversation at Brooklyn Park’s City Council Chambers (Photo by Ibrahim Hirsi).

“This is not a talk show,” said Abdullah Kiatamba, executive director of the African Immigrant Services, at the May 9 civic engagement forum. “It is not a conference for resolution. It’s about shifting people from being observers to active leaders.”

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Golden Karen Grocery in St. Paul: Veggies, rice, fish paste, and community

By Stephanie Fox, Global Groceries

Kyu Nan

I was searching for a certain Chinese grocery store near Rice Street in St. Paul when I spotted the sign: "Golden Karen Grocery." I thought I might have read it wrong, so I did a U-turn and pulled into the parking lot. I’d read it correctly. I hadn’t known that there was a Karen grocery in the Twin Cities. As it turns out, there are two of them. I’ll visit the second one in the future.

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Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

By Sunny Chanthanouvong
Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!
 
I was proud to see David Zander recognized this year at the Asian Pacific American Herita
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"I’m Not Your Indian Any More": Over 40 years of American Indian Movement history featured in exhibit

By Laura Waterman Wittstock, The Alley

The American Indian Movement will open its first exhibit telling the story of its history on May 10th at the All My Relations Gallery. Planning for the exhibit has been underway for months, as Executive Director Clyde Bellecourt and AIM’s board of directors worked to narrow down thousands of choices to a fraction of the holdings that depict the history of the Movement. They chose a photographic exhibit, featuring the work of Dick Bancroft, long known informally as the “AIM photographer,” and Roger Woo, a photographer who worked in black and white in AIM’s earliest years.

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