http://donny-allen.us News and Information Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:28:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/20/mainstream-media/ http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/20/mainstream-media/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:24:49 +0000 admin http://donny-allen.us/?p=5632 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } Local Black news reporters have covered everything from “grass fires” in northern Minnesota to the lack of snowfall in the state, which makes a tough time for snowmobiles. A rich history of culture, with enough “Black History News” to feature at-least four-minutes in evening news broadcasts has been forgotten. Local producers who are White, but [...]]]> http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/20/mainstream-media/feed/ 0 http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/20/young-lawyers-suing_sodahead/ http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/20/young-lawyers-suing_sodahead/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:46:36 +0000 admin http://donny-allen.us/?p=5624 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } Again we take another look at “training” without successful outcomes. If law school students spend thousands of dollars to get their degree, then pass the Bar Examine but still can’t find jobs who’s responsible? by SodaHead News Originally Posted February 17, 2012 Brooklyn, NY (IBNN NEWS/Soda Head/Education/Politics/February 20, 2012)…How’s this for irony: A group of [...]]]> http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/20/young-lawyers-suing_sodahead/feed/ 0 http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/19/kfai-fm-black-history/ http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/19/kfai-fm-black-history/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:43:33 +0000 admin http://donny-allen.us/?p=5612 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., KFAI-FM 90.3 (Minneapolis) and 106.7 (Saint Paul) continues their tradition of being the Twin Cities #1 station for community engagement, conversations and public service as they present “The Future of Black History” as part of their Black History Month Day of Programing. IBNN’s Don [...]]]> http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/19/kfai-fm-black-history/feed/ 0 http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/16/shoot-black-movies/ http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/16/shoot-black-movies/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:39:26 +0000 admin http://donny-allen.us/?p=5607 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } by Barry Michael Cooper At the dawn of the Black Hollywood Renaissance of the ’90s, the sodality of filmmakers like Spike Lee, The Hudlin Brothers, Bill Duke, Stan Lathan, John Singleton, The Hughes Brothers, George Jackson, Doug McHenry, Mario Van Peebles, Robert Townsend, Keenan Ivory Wayans, Kevin Hooks, Fred “Fab Five Freddy” Braithwaite, Charles Stone, [...]]]> http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/16/shoot-black-movies/feed/ 0 http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/15/silence-kill-us-protect-serve-murder/ http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/15/silence-kill-us-protect-serve-murder/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:41:55 +0000 admin http://donny-allen.us/?p=5601 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } IBNN NEWS first covered the Minneapolis Police murder of Mr. David Corneluis Smith on October 3, 2010. This was after repeated trips to the YMCA to speak with someone about the events on September 9, 2010. No returned phone calls; no interviews and certainly no Black elected officials said a word. Of course, there’s no [...]]]> http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/15/silence-kill-us-protect-serve-murder/feed/ 0 http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/11/wood-woodchuck-chuck-woodchuck-chuck-wood/ http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/11/wood-woodchuck-chuck-woodchuck-chuck-wood/#comments Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:43:16 +0000 admin http://donny-allen.us/?p=5584 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } “Somethings about to happen. The usual suspects have been at it too long. Matter of fact, the Woodchuck is chucking.” (Woodchuck commercial courtesy of GEICO, via YouTube.) Fast Tube by Casper by Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief of The Independent Business News Network Someone knows what’s going on. The deals cut in [...]]]> http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/11/wood-woodchuck-chuck-woodchuck-chuck-wood/feed/ 0 http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/09/govenor-mark-dayton-holds-secret-meeting-north-minneapolis/ http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/09/govenor-mark-dayton-holds-secret-meeting-north-minneapolis/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:35:57 +0000 admin http://donny-allen.us/?p=5576 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”–Shakespeare, The Tempest by Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief/IBNN NEWS and Black Politics in Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN (IBNN NEWS/Politics/February 9. 2012)…This is the challenge. Why would Minnesota’s governor come into north Minneapolis to talk to a bunch of money-grubbing non-profit poverty-pimps to talk about [...]]]> http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/09/govenor-mark-dayton-holds-secret-meeting-north-minneapolis/feed/ 1 http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/09/black-reconstruction-failure/ http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/09/black-reconstruction-failure/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:24:26 +0000 admin http://donny-allen.us/?p=5570 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } Training programs might not be working. They train the unemployed, under-employed and the poor. The challenge is, if training programs don’t have a pipeline to careers and futures it’s like going to an apple tree and looking for a pear. The Black community is the most well trained community in the United States – but [...]]]> http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/09/black-reconstruction-failure/feed/ 1 http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/08/kmoj-fm-insight-news/ http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/08/kmoj-fm-insight-news/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:26:21 +0000 admin http://donny-allen.us/?p=5561 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } You can’t go to an apple tree looking for a pear. Nor can you expect to find a fair and balanced information pipeline in the “go-to” Black news outlets that gone to the “left” of what’s right.  If you can’t tune in a station because of a bad signal, or thousands of newspapers sit on [...]]]> http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/08/kmoj-fm-insight-news/feed/ 0 http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/07/clipper-clinic/ http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/07/clipper-clinic/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:53:29 +0000 admin http://donny-allen.us/?p=5556 #followform { padding-top:5px; text-align:left; } Clipper Clinic is scheduled to hold another community clinic next week. One thing I’d like to tell the organizers of the Community Clinics: Spending valuable dollars in print advertising with local newspapers that sit in the stands wastes valuable information that the community should know about. You didn’t call – so this one’s on me. [...]]]> http://donny-allen.us/2012/02/07/clipper-clinic/feed/ 0