ADVERTISEMENT By Brandi D. Phillips Contributing Writer Southside Community Health Services is an organization with a long history of serving the community. Director of Development and Communications Autumn Chmielewski told the MSR, “We are a clinic that has been serving the South Side of Minneapolis and local areas for 45 years. “We actually started out as a … [Read more...]
Somali American is not synonymous with terrorist
Farhana Khers, executive director of the group Muslim Advocates, said of U.S. anti-terrorist security measures, “They seem to focus on Muslim communities, which account for only a small fraction of terrorist activities in the U.S.” Yet, they never talk about increased employment opportunities or after-school programs for Whites after a White person commits an act of … [Read more...]
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A few weeks ago I wanted to re-learn a skill that I had been taught. I needed to update my certification for training in Adult and Child CPR, AED, and First AID. I attended the class and noticed that I was the only African American there. I had no problem with this. I was there for a lifesaving course that would serve me if I ever needed to help someone. When one works in the … [Read more...]
U.S. sets up disenchanted citizens
The CNN newscasts and others blast headlines like, “ISIS recruits threaten to carry out assassination of Obama.” And the headlines probably got most folks attention and scared most of them. ISIS members/recruits threatening to kill the president sounds serious. But upon further review this appears to be the case of the government setting up some poor people who have espoused … [Read more...]
Council on Black Minnesotans being weakened
In the new movie Selma, Martin Luther King, Jr. works tirelessly to integrate Black Americans socially (education, opportunity), economically (jobs, housing), and politically (voting, holding office). He understood “American” refers not to race, religion or country of origin, but to the ideal of “truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…with certain unalienable … [Read more...]