Friends, watch this 2021 video given to the City of Minneapolis about Black Minneapolis history. Best, https://youtu.be/WZ18e_PphTY

Please read and share the below op-ed written by myself and the University of Minnesota Research Team on police surveillance of activists outside protest settings, published recently by Open Global Rights. “These findings pose international implications for police conduct regarding anti-brutality protests and protesters of African descent, as well as recommendations for human rights–based remedies.”

How can we get the cops to stop killing people? How can we get the cops to stop killing Black people? How can we get the cops to stop killing Black women? How can we get the cops to stop killing Black Trans Women? Who are these killers? He is…

“Did your husband impregnate you so that you would move to Miami?” This is what my father asked me, always blunt and indelicate. I assume…

This topic was born out of the current scrutiny of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. Black Lives Matter was started by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Ayo (Opal) Tometi after the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012. Their social media organizing started a global movement that spurred the…

On October 3, 2022, Collette Flanagan, founder of the Dallas-based group, Mothers Against Police Brutality, spoke before the United Nations-Human Rights Council sharing the story of her son, Quinton Allen. Allen was murdered by the Dallas Police Department in 2013. …

In Oyewumi’s The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Gender Discourses, the author shows how Gender organizes society and constructs the hegemony rooted in Western ideology. Oyuwumi argues that Gender is a western social construct used to construct society. …

Understanding history is a crucial part of policy analysis and problem structuring. Oftentimes, as we see a ‘problem’ in our communities or institutions, our gut reaction is to fall back onto what we ‘know’ to be common problems. Recently, the Vice-Chair of the board of Regents of the University of…

Hello All, If you have missed them, here are some articles I wrote for the Minnesota Spokesman Recorder focusing on Black Businesses in Minnesota. Black businesses face concerns over community safety and crime Black businesses are the bedrock of our community. In Minneapolis, Black business owners find themselves frontline…spokesman-recorder.com ​Black Business Spotlight: Krewe Restaurant Restaurant offers St. Joseph a taste of New Orleans Mateo Mackbee is the proud owner of the Creole restaurant Krewe in…spokesman-recorder.com