‘Minnesota Black Contractors’ Archives
Martin Luther King Day “Silent Protest” planned on Monday
Security for this years MLK Day events hosted by the Council on Black Minnesotans will be increased due to the exposing of the COBM's lack of community engagements and fiscal mismanagement that has gone on for almost 20 years. Community members are in outrage at the COBM's chairperson who is also a City of Minneapolis Assistant Attorney who has [...]
Minneapolis City Council picks up the slack on the 2010 Disparity Report – no takers in the Black community
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Councilpersons Robert Lilligren, Elizabeth Glidden, Cam Gordon, Sandy Colvin Roy, Betsy Hodges and even my arch-nemesis Don Samuels for “stepping up to the plate” and intelligently discussing the importance of paying attention to detail as it pertains to the 2010 City of Minneapolis Disparity [...]
Minneapolis City Council sends Civil Rights director Korbel back to the drawing board on Disparity Report recommendations and her plan
Civil Rights director Korbel: Do not pass go. “Tomfoolery” will not be allowed in Minneapolis’ city council chambers. Director Korbel gets her first taste of strong-council, weak mayor politics. By Donald W.R. Allen, II - Editor in Chief/IBNN NEWS and USA Radical Black (Editorial Opinion) "Poor work ethics, denotes Poor [...]
2011 Pro Football Hall of Fame Semi-Finalist Chris Doleman talks Sports, Politics and the Community – this Saturday ON POINT!
"Readers of IBNN NEWS are encouraged to vote for Chris Doleman for the Pro Football Hall of Fame by clicking here." Join co-hosts Ronald A. Edwards and Don Allen for another exciting program on BlogTalkRadio’s ON POINT! This Saturday, December 11, 2010 at 4 p.m. (CST), tune into ON POINT! as we welcome a very special guest. On [...]
Community Leaders or Charlatans – God will judge you
Editors note: This story was posted at 33,000 feet on Delta Airlines MD88 headed to Baltimore, MD. GoGoinflight free Wi-Fi made available through a partnership with Google and Delta Airlines. This service is available until January 2011 on most Delta Airlines Flights. Remember, “Travel the World, Search the Web - Fly Delta Airlines and Surf [...]
The Rape of the Minority Contractor – Disparity study finally released
Tune in Saturday, November 20, 2010 to BlogTalkRadio's ON POINT with co-hosts Ronald A. Edwards and Don Allen as they "dismantle the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights." by Ron Edwards - Originally posted 11/17/2010 Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, reprinted with the permission of the author. It took 15 years to tell us what we [...]
Shubert Theater in downtown Minneapolis: No Blacks, Native Americans, Hispanic-Latinos or Asians on the construction site
"Obama money doesn't work in Minneapolis. Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and not a conservative has no brains. — Winston Churchill" “Culture can perform, culture can’t work. This defines the racist make up of the city of Minneapolis. Classical Music World Music Comedy Pop/Rock Broadway [...]
Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights: Sex, Lies, Hype and CPED
"A message to the MDCR and CPED, I got the goods on you - get ready to be Dog Walked" In the video below, City of Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED) Mike Christensen tells a lie at the National Association of Minority Contractors monthly meeting one year ago today (November 9, 2009). Based on the findings in the report [...]
Soul Food Conversations with a Side of Politics
“Don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour for daylights saving time. Listen live anywhere in the world at http://kfai.org.” by Cranmer Danzig - The National Research Institute On Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. (CST) – tune into Twin Cities radio station KFAI-FM (90.3) to hear two different point of views about a two [...]
The State of the African American Community in Minneapolis
The Council on Black Minnesotan’s couldn’t imagine it. Northwest Area Foundation and the Headwaters Foundation’s had no idea. The Minneapolis Department of Civil Right – hell no! The African American Leadership Summit will have to go back to the drawing board to try and come up with real issues, real events and a presentation that is [...]
