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Open Letter to the General Mills Foundation From the Independent Business News Network
In 2009, the following letter (as re-posted on Business Finance News) was sent to the General Mills Foundation's executive director Ellen Luger in regards to the Martin Luther King Birthday and GMF's Breakfast Celebration. The GMF refused to let minority-ethnic media have a table at the breakfast event to distribute current information about [...]
National Association of Minority Contractors – Upper Midwest Chapter (MN) must organize to survive in the era of a Black President
By Donald W.R. Allen,II - Editor in Chief/IBNN and USA Radical Black On Thursday, May 6, 2010 at the Heritage Park Community Center in North Minneapolis the National Association of Minority Contractors held their monthly meeting. The National Association of Minority Contractors-Uppper Midwest (MN), is a Chapter of the National Association [...]
Another funeral for another Black child…and a plea from the Family
By Donald W.R. Allen,II - Editor in Chief/IBNN and USA Radical Black Fox 9 News reported on this tragic murder of a Black youth. (Click on the FOX 9 News picture to see the news report.) Below - the family asks for the communities support... Hello Friends & Family, Hope to find you all well and in the best of health and spirits. [...]
West Broadway Business Area Coalition needs new management…NOW!
"Kathy" - Owner of Digital City on Broadway Avenue By Donald W.R. Allen,II - Editor in Chief/IBNN and USA Radical Black According to their website, the primary focus of the West Broadway Business & Area Coalition (WBC) works to change the image of North Minneapolis by engaging in activities designed to transform West Broadway into a [...]
Part 1: KMOJ-FM “What happened to the Heart and Soul of the City?”
"It’s 1989. Remember the KMOJ Breakfast Jam: Chico "Fat-fingers" Edner, Dorian Flowers, Walter ‘Q-Bear’ Banks, Michael Shannon, “Rockwell” Odell Hopkins, Chas Millionaire, Newswoman Heather Murphy, and a host of other public radio personalities that made KMOJ the ‘power-house’ back in the day? Well, it’s a new day, and things are [...]
For Black America, 2010 Looks a Lot Like the 1970s
by Tara Kyle March 29, 2010 08:20 AM (PT) Topics: Race And Ethnicity When the National Urban League released its annual State of Black America report last week, its message had the unpleasant flavor of familiarity. At a D.C. press conference, vice president of research Dr. Valerie Rawlston Wilson read directly from the League's inaugural [...]
