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Racial Issues

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Brother Ali: My fans are kicking the sh*t out of me over Trayvon Martin

    Note: Brother Ali is a Minneapolis rapper signed to Rhymesayers Entertainment. His latest album, Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color, will be released in August. Here are portions of an interview following the One Million Hoodies March for Trayvon Martin held March 29 at the University of Minn ... More >>

  • News

    March 7, 2012

    Rush Limbaugh loses ad over slut comment

    Select Comfort pulls the plug

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2012

    11 white supremacists turn out in Duluth, get pelted with snowballs

    ​It probably wasn't the sort of showing members of the Supreme White Alliance had in mind, but really, what else did they expect? Eleven members of the white supremacist group took part in an anti-Un-Fair Campaign march in downtown Duluth on Saturday morning, only to be vastly outnumbered by count ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    Duluth: Racial justice, pro-white rallies scheduled concurrently this Saturday morning

    ​This Saturday should be an interesting one up in Duluth.Backers of the Un-Fair Campaign's controversial "It's hard to see racism when you're white" billboards have scheduled a pro-racial-justice counter-rally set to happen concurrently with a white nationalist group's pro-white rally.The racial j ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Minnesota Majority, pro-voter ID group, blasted for using race-baiting imagery

    ​Minnesota Majority is the main advocacy group backing the GOP-led drive for a constitutional amendment requiring all voters to show some form of identification at the polls.Today, one of the websites Minnesota Majority maintains -- wewantvoterid.com -- is being blasted for using racist imagery.

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    Duluth: "Pro-white" rally to protest anti-racism billboards

    A pro-white group plans to rally in protest of Duluth's controversial anti-racism billboards.​Backlash against the Un-Fair Campaign's "It's hard to see racism when you're white" billboards continues. Stormfront -- a "white nationalist" group devoted to promoting white pride throughout the world -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Michele Bachmann makes bold play for black vote, claims she's better for blacks than Obama

    The title of Michele Bachmann's new autobiography took many observers by surprise.​This may be the craziest thing Michele Bachmann has said yet.At the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans over the weekend, Bachmann tried to make in-roads into Barack Obama's most reliable voter base by c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    MSP: The most racist airport in Minnesota? [Comment of the Day]

    Charles Lindbergh was all about racial purity.​If Lake Calhoun is named after a pro-slavery racist, should it get a new name? We asked that question this morning and the poll results and comments took off like wildfire. "This is ridiculous," writes commenter Boom Boom Shikadance (who should ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    George Bush calls Kanye West rant lowest point of presidency

    ​MATT LAUER: You remember what he said? PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Yes, I do. He called me a racist. A brief excerpt has been posted of Matt Lauer's interview with former President George W. Bush, set to air this Monday night on Matt Lauer Reports.For a man who dammed the river of scientific prog ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    Keith Ellison says, yep, there's "extreme racists" in the tea party

    Photo: cometstarmoonKeven LawWhat about racism at tea parties?​The Republicans, led by Michele Bachmann, are trying to figure out how to co-opt tea partiers, and the Democrats said yesterday they're happy to let the Republicans do it. You want to stand with folks determined to end Medicare, pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Protesters throw Jell-O at neo Nazis and end up getting fined

    Photo: TMAB2003Dangerous weaponry in Austin​So Matthew Novak and Naomi Snoozy decide they're going to do the honorable thing and confront a handful of neo-Nazis at one of those typically tiny little racist rallies that draw more protesters and TV cameras than actual Hitler wannabees. The prot ... More >>

  • News

    May 19, 2010

    Readers respond to "Girl Gangs"

    Photo: TMAB2003Dangerous weaponry in Austin​So Matthew Novak and Naomi Snoozy decide they're going to do the honorable thing and confront a handful of neo-Nazis at one of those typically tiny little racist rallies that draw more protesters and TV cameras than actual Hitler wannabees. The prot ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 4, 2009

    SKIN: Solo in a Crowd

    Photo: TMAB2003Dangerous weaponry in Austin​So Matthew Novak and Naomi Snoozy decide they're going to do the honorable thing and confront a handful of neo-Nazis at one of those typically tiny little racist rallies that draw more protesters and TV cameras than actual Hitler wannabees. The prot ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 27, 2008

    Harriet Washington

    Photo: TMAB2003Dangerous weaponry in Austin​So Matthew Novak and Naomi Snoozy decide they're going to do the honorable thing and confront a handful of neo-Nazis at one of those typically tiny little racist rallies that draw more protesters and TV cameras than actual Hitler wannabees. The prot ... More >>

  • Feature

    February 20, 2008

    Skinheads at Forty

    Twenty years after their heyday, the anti-racist Baldies recount the rise and fall of a notorious Twin Cities scene

  • News

    November 1, 2006

    The Rehabilitation of Rich Stanek

    The MPD captain tries to outrun his most formidable opponent—his own checkered history on race—in a bid to be Hennepin County sheriff

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2006

    Rich Stanek: role model for white people

    The MPD captain tries to outrun his most formidable opponent—his own checkered history on race—in a bid to be Hennepin County sheriff

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    The Wanted Man

    When a couple of students objected to the course materials in Stephen Philion's race and culture class at Hamline University, he thought the trouble would pass. Wrong.

  • News

    October 12, 2005

    White Fight

    How did the majority-minority Eighth Ward end up with two white candidates?

  • News

    November 10, 2004

    Black Minnesotans Stick With Dems--for Now

    African Americans voted their pocketbooks; white Americans their "values"

  • News

    November 19, 2003

    A Blast from the Past

    Former mayor Sharon Sayles Belton on her successor

  • News

    October 29, 2003

    A Whiter Shade of Pale

    Why mayor Rybak is loathed on the north side

  • News

    September 10, 2003

    Skin Tight

    Samuels and African Americans, pt. II; Another Sabri Snafu

  • Arts

    July 9, 2003

    Class Action

    With 'Justice,' a pair of Twin Cities civil rights lawyers raise the bar for African American filmmaking

  • News

    December 25, 2002

    Reckless Eyeballin'

    Longtime civil rights activist and agitator Ron Edwards talks about the city he loves and hates

  • Arts

    October 16, 2002

    Beyond the Pale

    Screwing the white guy and dancing with the devil: Race matters at the 40th annual New York Film Festival

  • News

    September 4, 2002

    Trouble Shooters

    A violent night in north Minneapolis and the community activists who helped the cops stop it

  • Books

    August 28, 2002

    The Content of His Character

    Why is Gregory Gray so important to Paul Wellstone?

  • News

    January 16, 2002

    Black and Blue

    Dennis Green, Dan Barreiro, and the Race Card

  • Books

    February 14, 2001

    Take Me for a Ride

    Why City Pages won't be using this space to write about racial profiling from the cops' perspective

  • Books

    December 6, 2000

    Race for Last

    In One Drop of Blood,writer Scott L. Malcomson examines the destructive legacy of racial designations

  • Movies

    November 8, 2000

    Original Sins of Comedy

    Beginning as a satiric gutbuster, Spike Lee's Bamboozled becomes its own stereotype

  • Arts

    February 16, 2000

    You Down with GOP?

    An obscure conservative organization peddles Republican-sanctioned hip hop to the masses

  • Books

    September 15, 1999

    Under Color of Law

    A racially charged ethics case travels all the way from Anoka County to the state supreme court

  • Feature

    September 1, 1999

    The Torn Heart

    An African-American mom reflects on the difficulties of raising her son in a decidedly white culture

  • Sports

    July 28, 1999

    A Piece of the Rock

    An African-American mom reflects on the difficulties of raising her son in a decidedly white culture

  • Sports

    July 14, 1999

    Team Colors

    Lynx officials say they want all their fans to feel welcome. Then why are the Target Center crowds so pale?

  • News

    June 2, 1999

    Off Beat

    Lynx officials say they want all their fans to feel welcome. Then why are the Target Center crowds so pale?

  • Feature

    October 1, 1998

    The Colors of Love, Acceptance, and Tolerance

    Found in the hands of Sister Anne

  • Arts

    July 1, 1998

    Back in Black

    Thirty-four years ago, LeRoi Jones's Dutchman sent American race relations careening on a New York subway. Where's the end of the line?

  • News

    June 24, 1998

    Not in our Backyard

    Scott Paulson was sick of his stepson's complaints about a white posse beating up his black friends. Then the phalanx of trucks pulled up on his lawn.

  • Books

    April 29, 1998

    W.T. Lhamon Jr: Raising Cain: Blackface Performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop

    Scott Paulson was sick of his stepson's complaints about a white posse beating up his black friends. Then the phalanx of trucks pulled up on his lawn.

  • Arts

    March 25, 1998

    Paint It White

    Playwright Syl Jones updates the 1930s race novel Black No More as a wildly satiric, off-color joke.

  • Feature

    February 1, 1998

    Double Take

    Being black and gay is seen by some as double . But playwright Djola Branner disputes that notion, And his play, Homos in the House, which premieres this month, shows how such attitudes create stigma, erect barriers, and inhibit HIV/AIDS prevention

  • News

    March 26, 1997

    The Thin Black Line

    A veteran cop's race discrimination suit against the St. Paul Police Department raises old questions and new tensions.

  • Arts

    February 5, 1997

    On The Porch

    A veteran cop's race discrimination suit against the St. Paul Police Department raises old questions and new tensions.

  • Arts

    October 23, 1996

    It Takes A Nation Of Millions

    A veteran cop's race discrimination suit against the St. Paul Police Department raises old questions and new tensions.

  • Movies

    December 6, 1995

    Trading Places

    A veteran cop's race discrimination suit against the St. Paul Police Department raises old questions and new tensions.

  • Feature

    October 18, 1995

    Farrakhan's Moment

    Where do we go from October 16?

  • Feature

    October 4, 1995

    The Verdict

    The acquittal of OJ was the least of it.

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