‘Feature’ Archives
Hennepin County seeks community insight during preparation for north Minneapolis human services “hub”
Don't forget to "LIKE" the Hennepin County Facebook™Page by clicking here. First meeting Tuesday, May 14 at 6 p.m. (photo: Hennepin County) IBNN Public Service Announcement via Internet Marketing Social Media Concepts Minneapolis, MN...Starting May 14, Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Department will host a [...]
Solutions Not Suspensions Youth Summit – Saturday May 11
Who do you turn to when the ones you need are paid to look the other way? (Photo: IBNN). Saturday May 11th, 2013 at the The Humphrey School of Public Affairs on the University of Minnesota Campus from 10 a.m. -3:30 p.m. (Check in begins at 9:00 a.m. Registration is completely FREE! Lunch and a T-Shirt will be provided! If you know any YOUTH [...]
St. Paul Police Department wants youths away from the system and in School
Please, take our poll on the right----> Drop Out to Drop Ins - showing immediate success is very important. (Numbers based on estimates.) Click photo to enlarge. “There will come a time when the need for a grassroots community engagement will put Black and Hispanic men and women back in their communities to reach the youth that need to [...]
Northside Achievement Zone: Aiming kids towards College? Former NAZ board member pulls the covers off no achievement in NAZ
Expected college graduation for poor minority students in 2035 does nothing to fix issues in 2013. On Saturday, April 27 a former board member of Peace Foundation/NAZ was interviewed on the Internet radio program ON POINT with Ronald A. Edwards and myself. This former board member uncovered that NAZ was not doing the community any favors and [...]
Keith Downey – Chairman of the Republican Party of Minnesota: ¿Es el tiempo de su lado?
The GOP Fantastic Four: Downey, Paulsen, Clayton and Allen. I've received too many calls to count from my Black, Asian, Hispanic and Somali friends asking me about the MN GOP convention this weekend. I gave them my opinion and told them I was hard pressed to go beyond Saturday. Chris Fields was elected as secretary, but that sends some of the [...]
The Neighborhood HUB presents “Healthy Life Initiative” – Tuesday, March 12th
Ms. Julianne Leerssen, Executive Director - The Neighborhood Hub. The Neighborhood Hub located at 3210 Oliver Avenue North has done more for north side residents in a year then most north Minneapolis non-profits have done in the last 5 years. Now they invite community members to learn about healthy eating initiatives. IBNN NEWS Public [...]
Part 1: Minneapolis Urban League’s 13th Grade Pilot Program sends a clear signal nobody wants to deal with current K-12 educational issues
Really? An almost vacant building; no money coming in and you want to tackle education? This is no better than the Minneapolis Foundation hanging signs in the skyway." This is not the first time the Minneapolis Urban League has attempted to become relevant in the 21st century. We need look no further than the grant from the Minnesota Department [...]
Minneapolis Public Schools: Problems of defining race, culture and identity for Somali’s and Blacks
Black American Students overlooked. (photo: mukiyi-colorijo.blogspot.com) “I also blame Congressman Keith “Poor excuse for the 5th CD” Ellison - a Negro American, himself - who has done little or next to nothing in requiring Somalis to have any acknowledgement of the contributions of his own ethnic peoples in this country. He never [...]
Will WCCO-TV air the brutal beating of Demario Booker by Minneapolis Police?
While we are big fans of the Fox 9 Morning Show, we understand the Fox 9 News evening and nighttime senior producers missed this story because of so many bathroom breaks. (photo: The Wrong Stuff on Tumblr) In December 2012, both Fox 9 News and WCCO-TV Channel 4 locked out the story about Demario Booker. On November 20, 2012 Minneapolis Police [...]
Minneapolis Foundation and Minnesota Black Chamber of Commerce must come clean on 10-years and $300,000.00
It hasn’t happened in 20 years – how will it happen now? Mainstream “chambers” in Minnesota (a few of them), make decisions that involve millions of dollars. The small businesses in north Minneapolis get a “drop in the bucket” and citizens cannot know who is behind this plantation mentality of a plan being laid out that remains aloof [...]
