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Freedom Day: joy, resilience
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (369+ words) Rondo was the beating heart of Black St. Paul " churches, bu" Every year, the panel overseeing the trust fund for Social S" Gary Hines, Sounds of Blackness musical director Written and produced by founder and music director Gary Hines and…...
From a kitchen in Cameroon to the foot of the Stone Arch Bridge
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (987+ words) Diane Moukouri and Fritz Ebanda They met as teenagers, in the same neighborhood in Cameroon, in what used to be the French colonial portion of that country " two kids who would grow up, marry each other, work in luxury hotel…...
HIV treatment as bargaining chip: Senators object to Zambia copper-for-aid plan as Africa absorbs fuel shock
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (293+ words) U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio Three Democratic members of the United States Senate have written to Secretary of State Marco Rubio demanding that the State Department reject a reported plan to withhold lifesaving HIV treatment from more than one million…...
Stable budget outlook projects $3. 7 billion surplus now, no deficit in next biennium
3+ mon, 5+ hour ago (384+ words) Interstate I-394 between downtown Minneapolis and Highway 100 will have overnigh" It's not unusual to see young passengers peering at videos i" The projected surplus for Fiscal Years 2026-27 is now higher than it was in the November estimate, and no deficit is…...
Conditioning the minds of enslaved Africans
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (346+ words) With a nod to Claude Mc Kay's poem "If we must die," a question that's often asked is why Blacks in the United States, particularly when they held the numerical majority over whites in many southern states, did not fight…...