University of MN changes crime-alert race-reference policy after criticism
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler announced Wednesday that use of racial descriptions will be reduced considerably in U police crime alerts. The issue has been a contentious one on campus since the student group Whose Diversity? staged a sit-in Feb. 9 in Kaler’s Morrill Hall offices and listed the cessation of racial descriptions in crime reports as one of its … [Read more...]
Popularity grows for hometown singer PaviElle
As PaviElle French’s voice lifted the audience’s spirits at First Avenue’s Best New Bands of 2014 show, it was easy to see why the audience danced along with her. French’s music embodies her life experiences. She creates something timeless, something everybody can relate to she said recently at the Acadia Café in Minneapolis. French doesn’t go by a stage name, and smiled when … [Read more...]
PHOTOS | Greater Twin Cities United Way celebrates 100 years
The Greater Twin Cities United Way recognized a century of service and volunteering with the Good for Generations celebration, gathering 3,000 volunteers from over 450 companies at the Minneapolis Convention Center February 19. The sold-out centennial gala utilized social media and the hashtag #Next100 to raise awareness of its goal to engage 100,000 new volunteers in 2015. … [Read more...]
Willie Carter would quit a job to box
A chance to fight is what brought him to Minnesota Willie Carter was born October 24, 1943, in Shawnee, OK, 40 miles east of Oklahoma City. His father, Thomas Lee Carter, and his mother, Willie Mae (nee Burrell), were both born and buried in Oklahoma. His mother died when he was about a year old. “She hemorrhaged to death. Couldn’t go to a hospital back in those days.” He … [Read more...]