Before his untimely death at the hand of St. Paul police officer Jeronimo Yanez, Philando Castile was a popular nutrition services supervisor at the JJ Paul Montessori school in St. Paul, Minnesota. After his death, his friends and family vowed to keep his memory alive in a special way. Splinternews.com reports: The Philando Feeds The Children […]
Before his untimely death at the hand of St. Paul police officer Jeronimo Yanez, Philando Castile was a popular nutrition services supervisor at the JJ Paul Montessori school in St. Paul, Minnesota. After his death, his friends and family vowed to keep his memory alive in a special way. Splinternews.com reports: The Philando Feeds The Children […]
First, it was Missy Elliot, whose hometown of Portsmouth, VA had a petition signed by over 24,000 people to replace a Confederate statue. This came out of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. White supremacist and neo-Nazis met around the statue of Robert E. Lee on the University of Virginia campus. They were protesting […]
How does a grown man get 180 days in prison for rapping a mentally disabled 14-year-old girl? Darmalo R. Crawford will serve 180 days in prison for the assault of his victim In Minneapolis, Minnesota, 19-year-old Damarlo R. Crawford walked his young victim home after school in September 2016. When they get to the house […]
Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of Philando Castile, was arrested and charged in relation to a hammer attack on a woman in St. Paul.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â One by one, the entire Minnesota football roster walked out of the locker room and onto the practice facility turf to face a waiting media gathering. Wearing their maroon game jerseys with gold numbers, they lined up behind 10 of their teammates who were suspended earlier this week after an internal university […]
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) â A suburban police officer who killed a black motorist likely wouldn’t have fired if the driver had been white, Minnesota’s governor declared, jumping into a suddenly reignited national debate over how law enforcement treats people of color. Philando Castile‘s girlfriend streamed the gruesome aftermath of his shooting in a St. […]
UPDATE: FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) â The Latest on a police shooting in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota (all times local): Authorities have identified the two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a black Minnesota man during a traffic stop. The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension names them as Officer Jeronimo Yanez and Officer […]
Happy Birthday, Prince! Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton has officially declared June 7 “Prince Day” in the Purple One’s home state, US Weekly reports. The holiday was put in place to honor Prince not only as an artist, but also as a philanthropist. US Weekly wrote: “As fans will recall, Prince was passionate about his suburban […]
Prince fans in Minnesota are trying to understand how Beyonce â a native of Texas â was given her own official day in their state before Prince, a Minnesota native who kept a home and business there until his death on April 21. âYouâre kidding, right? 4/21 is going to be declared Prince day, right? […]
Minnesota is developing something called a “Water Bar,” which is designed to call attention to the inequalities in water supply all over the world. Even still, is such a thing insensitive to the crisis in Flint? Click on the audio player to hear more on this story in this edition of The Jazzy Report on The D.L. Hughley Show. […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â Three Minnesota men’s basketball players were suspended over the weekend after a sexually explicit video appeared on one of their social media accounts, according to a person with knowledge of the discipline. Guards Kevin Dorsey, Nate Mason and Dupree McBrayer were benched Sunday at Illinois for what the Gophers announced as a […]
