‘Educating Our Children’ Archives
President of 100 Black Men Chapter Says Black Men Make Too Many Excuses
Editors Note: An Evening with 100 Strong Who Care is scheduled for Saturday, January 14, 2012 from 9:00 p.m. - 12-mid. The event will take place at Ridgedale Mall Center Court, 12401 Wayzata Boulevard, Minnetonka. The curiosity IBNN has: "Why is this event taking place outside of the Minneapolis Public School District? Anyway, join executives, [...]
Better off dead? Let’s talk about it – Saturday ON POINT!
Join Ronald A. Edward and Don Allen with some BlackTalkRadio on BlogTalkRadio’s ON POINT! Saturday at 4 p.m. (CST). This is an hour-long call in program asking the questions and answering them on Saturday. It doesn’t seem right to see a funeral and cartoon character “Sponge Bob” with Angel Wings…Two Minnesota’s, separate and unequal. [...]
Open letter to Star Tribune Reporter Matt McKinney: A decline in gunshot injuries?
“Sometimes using Minneapolis’ Star Tribune newspaper to check current events makes one think, who’s running this joint?” by Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief/IBNN NEWS and Black Politics in Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN (IBNN NEWS/Editorial/Open Letter/January 2, 2012)…Mr. McKinney, while personally I have no beef with [...]
Kim Ellison comes out on top for the Minneapolis Public School Board
Even with the lowdown, dirty tricks played by the African American Leadership Forum to set Ms. Ellison on the back burner, a quiet, unique, honest and humble person is now on the MPS board. “Shame on @#@$!! AALF.” by Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief/IBNN NEWS and Black Politics in Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN. (IBNN [...]
Cosby’s plea to parents: “Before you get to the point where you say ‘I can’t do nothing with them’, do something with them.”
The posting is a prelude to an IBNN NEWS Exclusive Report involving the Minneapolis Public Schools. Stay tuned... Re-posted by IBNN NEWS Washington, DC (Source: Rainbow Push Conference)…The Reverend Jesse Jackson almost never gets upstaged and I had never seen the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson cry in public until last month. Jackson [...]
Minneapolis Public Schools continue to fund dead-end programs with taxpayer dollars. $15,000 taken away from education
After waiting for more than two weeks on some information the Minneapolis Public Schools had readily available, IBNN finds out that the Community Standards Initiative is for a program that funds Alfred Flowers and former African American Family Services executive director $15,000 for pretty much doing something “trained professionals” should [...]
Proposal for a Minnesota Governor’s Advisory Committee for the Enforcement of Affirmative Action
Goal and objective: A level playing field. by Alan L. Maki, Guest Contributor - Photo by IBNN NEWS St. Paul, MN (IBNN NEWS/Op Ed/November 22, 2011)...All the talk about a new Vikings’ Stadium, the need for infrastructure development and repair, talk of light rail and other large-scale public works and joint public-private initiatives [...]
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WE WIN Institute needs you right now. Through donations with GiveMN, we have an opportunity to match your donation today to WE WIN dollar for dollar up to $3000. If you donate $10, WE WIN will receive $20.00. If you donate $100, WE WIN will receive $200,and if you donate $1000, WE WIN will receive $2000. We are so excited! What a [...]
Part 1: Student African American Brotherhood/B2B at MCTC Presents: Black Men in America – A Real Conversation
IBNN NEWS and its affiliates; ON POINT, Black Focus and Black Politics in Minneapolis are proud to announce a long overdue conversation with real people. Black Men in America will be held on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, 4:30–6 p.m. K Building, Room K.3360 on the beautiful campus of Minneapolis Community and Technical College in downtown Minneapolis, [...]
7% of Black 8th-graders perform math at grade level…doesn’t that say enough?
IBNN NEWS will feature a series about Black Men in America which shows something is seriously wrong and the "invisible hand" is still at work in the United States to keep Black men from rising up. We will start with facts about Black Men, then turn to editorials about the issues and what the solutions could be. Dr. Donna Ford has the solutions, [...]
