‘Educating Our Children’ Archives
Minneapolis Urban League must provide full audit and program information before any sale of 2000 Plymouth Avenue North
"Our children are dying in the streets. The public schools have abandoned best practices in favor for a $41 million dollar headquarters. Black Unemployment is the highest in the state. Your next big deal is trying to sell a building? WTF? You have to go, we need change now!" (photo edited by IBNN.) If facts are not provided, then speculation [...]
Minneapolis Public Schools failing children of color and nobody’s saying SHIT about it.
In the Minneapolis Public Schools, A-B-C stands for “abandoned,” “betrayed,” and “cut-out,” from the opportunities to compete in the marketplace of education. I suspect at some point – when MPS failure system really starts to affect the non-ethnic children, some changes will be made from the top down. I hope this includes the [...]
IBNN NEWS Exclusive: Deceptive yellow journalism at the heart of attack on Harvest Prep – board chairperson speaks out
IBNN has received many calls about the resent stories in the Star Tribune about Harvest Prep and its headmaster Eric Mahmoud. At this time, IBNN would like to make it very clear we are in support of Black education and student success in Minnesota. After careful review of several reports IBNN intercepted, it seems clear the “news tips” to the [...]
Some Niggas are also responsible for the speculation and inappropriate attacks Harvest Prep’s Eric Mahmoud
"Reader advisory issued. Some real stuff in this article, pay attention - I was trained at the college of Ronald A. Edwards. IBNN NEWS is closely watching the stories and events surrounding the judge, jury and hanging of a local Black educational institution. Contempt prior to investigation will be the downfall of those that seek to obstruct [...]
Part 1: African Leadership Council of Minnesota asks for the resignation of the Council on Black Minnesotans Board Chairman and reckless board member
"Council on Black Minnesotan's board chair Patwin Lawrence (far left), is under-fire from other human life-forms." (Photo: COBM website) IBNN NEWS supports the Council on Black Minnesotans board chairman Patwin Lawrence and his vision for the COBM. It’s unfortunate that Black organizations with their own agenda’s have tainted a process [...]
The Attack on Black Student Success: Performance justifies reward
2012 looks much like the 1950's in Minneapolis. (photo: vkb.isvg.org) On Saturday, August 18, 2012 at approximately 12:15 p.m. – African American Leadership Forum’s Gary Cunningham patronized Sunnyside Café for lunch. This chance encounter with Mr. Cunningham gave me the opportunity to tell him the following: “We need to put our petty [...]
Board of Directors responds to Brandt and Star Tribune’s deceptive characterizations of Black educational institution – IBNN NEW Exclusive Report
"Crabs in a barrel when reporting on the Black Community." (Photo: IBNN) Editor’s note: The Star Tribune is refusing to print a response from the board of directors of Seed Daycare and Harvest Prep, the most successful educational institution in Minnesota when it comes to teaching, learning and success for students of color. IBNN NEWS has [...]
Buy Black 2012: Join Black Twin Cities on Saturday for a celebration of Black Wealth and Spending Power!
On this Saturday, August 18, 2012 Black Twin Cities makes history in Minnesota by inviting local businesses and the general public to the first annual Buy Black 2012 event. The event is headquartered at Sunnyside Café located at 1825 Glenwood Avenue North (corners of Glenwood and Morgan Avenue North), from 9:00 a.m. to 12-noon. Sunnyside [...]
Success in educating Black students has its downside: Attacks on Harvest Prep and its Headmaster are Racist
Charter's schools are all non-union. This is where the trouble begins and ends. Someone is slowly losing their since of “White Privilege” and regardless of successes within Harvest Prep and Eric Mahmoud’s other educational facilities, Minnesota Nice wants it all to go away. It’s funny how the Star Tribune can be used as a public [...]
Minnesota Department of Education Commissioner Dr. Brenda Cassellius must resign in regards to investigation of successful Black charter school
"Black educations status quo in Minnesota." It’s evident that some of our people don’t have our (Blacks) best interest. This is what notoriety and success brings to Black education – an unjust scrutiny of processes. Now if this had been Superintendent Johnson of the Minneapolis Public Schools and she had somehow managed to close the [...]
