Tag: Minneapolis
Dutch Slavery Exhibition to Open at UN Headquarters
By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A landmark exhibition on slavery in the Dutch colonial era that was first staged at...
Minneapolis to buy gas station at site of Floyd’s killing
By The Association Press
The city of Minneapolis has decided to buy the boarded-up Speedway gas station at the intersection where George Floyd was killed by...
Minneapolis settles with 12 hurt in George Floyd protests
By Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The city of Minneapolis has reached a $600,000 settlement with 12 protesters who were injured during demonstrations after the May...
Coalition Kicks Off Votercade with Goal of 10 Million More Black Voters
By Stacy M. Brown, Senior National Correspondent, NNPA Newswire
The bar is set high: 10 million more Black voters.
That’s the goal as the Transformative Justice...
Environmental Justice Concerns Loom Over Rail Merger
By Hazel Trice Edney, Trice Edney Newswire
A few months back, I wrote a column focused on my misgivings about the proposed merger of two...