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…

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. …

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

Since the Abolition Movement, Black Americans have been seeking international recognition of the plight of Blacks in the New World, but also to seek opportunities for themselves. While in England, William and Ellen Craft published their account, “Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom” documenting their escape from slavery which entailed…

The cornerstone of the Civil Rights Movement we learned about in school was centered around integration, voting rights, and potentially fair housing. These are all issues that pertain to the civil liberties of Blacks in America at the time (and today). Yet, as the Black Lives Matter movement has shown…

by: Angela Rose I’ll start my reflection on MLK Day, with my reflection on Indigenous Peoples Day. It was the first time Indigenous Peoples' Day had been celebrated on the federal level in the US. then, in an in-person class, in talking about issues of transitional justice, the question of…