‘Ward 5’ Archives
Minneapolis Public School District sent 24 representatives from the community to check out Super Charter School in Chicago
“This IBNN NEWS exclusive report provides the names of participants sent to Chicago to check out Noble Street Charter School. Would this be the educational equivalent of CeaseFire-Chicago?” By Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief/IBNN NEWS and USA Radical Black Minneapolis, MN. (IBNN NEWS/October 19, 2010)…Many community [...]
Minneapolis PUNK
"The Real Northside Achievement Zone. There's no NAZ about it! A form of economic development created by society's disregard for the least of thee" The average youth selling drugs in Minneapolis with an investment of $250 dollars can make more than $1500 in less that 3 hours, especially around the 1st of the month. What's the incentive for this [...]
Minneapolis NAACP is indirectly responsible for proposed closing of North High School
It’s clear that the Minneapolis NAACP and the Star Tribune newspaper did not review the history of the Minneapolis Public Schools and the NAACP. In a call to Star Tribune reporter Corey Mitchell from the National Research Institute to ask him about the national focus, Mitchell replied, “I thought this was a local issue.” Well DUH! Again, the [...]
Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ): Where’s the achievement?
"For some soon, job search 2010" Click on photo above to read community spokespersons comments about North High School. (Source: JHG) “It’s Sunday, October 10, 2010. Now is the perfect time to seek out a candidate to run for office in Ward 5 and defeat Minneapolis City Councilman Don Samuels. His evident lack of concern for the Black [...]
Minneapolis North High School and The Minneapolis Urban League scheduled to close?
“Is a north Minneapolis publisher dealing in development and education deals? How is it no one has read, or gotten an update on the trip to Chicago to visit a super charter school? In a blink of an eye, Black Minneapolis can lose some valuable real estate – yes real estate. The kids are not learning at North High, the MUL is ineffective – [...]
ON POINT! Politics, Star Tribune misleading numbers and stories on Minneapolis’ homicides with the Downtown Minneapolis YMCA and Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights big mistake
Join co-hosts Ronald A. Edwards and Don Allen on Saturday at 4 p.m. (CST) for Black Talk Radio on BlogTalkRadio for the next episode of ON POINT! On Saturday’s show, Ron and Don will discuss the significant mismanagement of stories and numbers coming out of the Star Tribune newspaper about time-lines and why a Black man was released [...]
Senator Linda Higgins (DFL-58) and political flunkies out of control
The video below will show John Hoff and Megan Goodmunson running away from the secretly video taped and recorded meeting. John was extremely angry when he arrived and might have been under the influence of alcohol. (Note the beer bottle in his hand as IBNN caught him coming out of the bar. He was the only one that was drinking who needed to sober [...]
Fong Lee rally in North Minneapolis – No Peace, No Justice!
"How can a Minneapolis Police officer get away with shooting an unarmed teen eight (8) times - five (5) times in the chest? IBNN NEWS is requesting to see the unedited video from the schools video surveillance cameras. Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and Minneapolis Police chief Tim Dolan have a lot of explaining to do." Minneapolis, [...]
The Conversation goes “Global” – The State of the African American Community Saturday – ON POINT! (with Special Sports Coverage!)
Co-host Ronald A. Edwards is on special assignment in Omaha, NB to cover legendary quarterback and former Minnesota Viking Dante Culpepper as his team, the Sacramento Mountain Lions play the Omaha Nighthawks of the United Football League (UFL). ON POINT! will be broadcasting live from the Crown Plaza Studios in Omaha, NB. by ON POINT! – [...]
No Solutions…Again: Selling Snake Oil to the Black Community
By Louis King – Guest Contributor to IBNN NEWS with Notes and Title by Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief/IBNN NEWS and USA Radical Black Louis King - Credibility Louis J. King II is the President and CEO of Summit Academy OIC, a merged organization of Twin Cities OIC (Opportunities Industrialization Center) and [...]
