‘Black Children’ Archives
Letter to Mark Dayton: The African American Agenda presented to you at the Minneapolis Urban League is not the Minnesota Black Agenda Report
Editors note: If the shoe was on the other foot we would invite these folks who held a secret meeting with you to meet with the “other side.” But stupidity happens at real high levels in the Black community. State Rep. Bobby Jo Champion approached an attendee at Monday’s meeting and told him, “This is a public meeting, your with the [...]
2010 Minneapolis Public School Board Candidate Forum – LIVE “ON POINT!” (9/2/10)
When: Thursday, September 2, 2010 Where: Urban Research and Outreach Center (UROC), 2001 Plymouth Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN. 55411 Time: 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Forum moderators: Ronald A. Edwards (Black Focus) and Donald Allen (IBNN NEWS) Participants: Richard Mammen, Chanda Smith Baker, Rebecca Gagnon, T Williams The BlogTalkRadio [...]
Minneapolis NAACP Parent Information Centers hit the fan in 2005, and again in 2010 (Part 1 of 2)
"IBNN NEWS has received current information about alleged fiduciary mismanagement at the north Minneapolis’ Parent Information Center. In a visit today (8/11/10) to PIC, Ms. Beverly Props was in the basement of PIC and told IBNN a little about what happened to the center this year and why no programming is available at PIC. Before we move [...]
The Disastrous Minneapolis Public School System – An Education “Fail.”
"Our children can't read. Our Children don’t know math. The Minneapolis Public School system doesn’t deserve a new district headquarters until they fix a system that is broken, busted and beat down. Not one north side school passed the MCA test!" by Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief/IBNN NEWS and USA Radical Black Minneapolis, MN [...]
Open Letter to National Urban League President Mark Morial
By Donald W.R. Allen, II – IBNN NEWS and USA Radical Black/Member of the Minneapolis Urban League, a membership organization. The Demands: 1. The Minneapolis Urban League to immediately be put into Affiliate Receivership. 2. An open election for the Board of Directors. 3. An election for President of the MUL drawn from a pool of local [...]
CeaseFire Minneapolis: Disrespect to Stakeholders of Minneapolis
The Twin Cities has some of the most celebrated and best political, corporate, social and “human interaction” minds in the country. Yet, the city of Minneapolis and it’s mayor, R.T. Rybak still look elsewhere to solve a problem of crime and murder in a the Black community. What makes it real disrespectful? They didn’t even have the sense [...]
North Minneapolis Politics: Will the real “Slim Shady” please stand up?
“Could it be a possible conspiracy theory that no Native Americans (Indians) have ran for office in Minneapolis? In 2005, the nation's more than 400 Indian gaming casinos generated more than $18 billion dollars in revenue -- a staggering amount that is more than the NFL, the NBA and Major League Baseball generate in one year combined. The wealth [...]
Murders and more Meetings: Attempting to solve the problem of Violence in North Minneapolis with Institutional Racism
In 2007 KARE 11 News published a news report titled, “North Minneapolis: Hope for the Future. A paragraph in the article read: “It has been a year of bad news on the Northside, where news accounts of murder after murder have reinforced the neighborhood's image problem.” The story was from July 11,2007 – thousands of meeting later we [...]
Murderapolis – Murder, Death, Kill of a 16-year-old child leads community members to demand changes in city’s infrastructure
Here’s where the problem continues. You have the Peace Foundation; Shiloh International Ministries represented by a guy name Andre Dukes; A Minneapolis City Councilman’s wife running an organization that refuses to bring “The Right Stuff and People” to the table with another division of folks that say they “represent” the community and [...]
Who will press the RESET button for Black Minneapolis? It must be everyone!
Editors Note: When I say Black Minneapolis – I just don’t mean just Black people. Everyday, some of you that are not Black experience the same hate, trauma, racism and unfair playing field that certain races have experienced for decades. The RESET button in Black (everyone) Minneapolis must be pressed with a collaborate effort to reject the [...]
