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Honoring the work and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, we celebrate his life.

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MLK: The movement lives on; there’s work still to be done

By Harry Colbert, Jr. Managing Editor @HarryColbertJr He was just 39 years old.

There was so much more life to be lived.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was just 39 years old on April 4, 1968 when an assassin’s bullet took the life from his body. To put 39 years in context, at 39, Barack Obama was a member of the Senate … the Illinois State Senate, that is. It would be another eight years before he would ascend to the highest office in the land. Henry Ford

didn’t invent the Model T until he was 45. It took Morgan Freeman more than 50 years to become a household name.

There would be no Vera Wang Collection if she only had 39 years to live.

King only got 39 years worth of life on this earth. Needless to say, he was able to do a lot in his 39 years.

When Rosa Parks decided to take her rightful seat at the front of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., it was King who led the boycott that brought the bus company to its knees and paved the way for desegregation throughout the land and an end to Jim Crow.

While King did not initiate

the March on Washington, it became the transformative event that it was once he was brought into the fold. That march, and King’s later efforts, led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Along the way, King was threatened, beaten, stabbed and jailed – all in his nonviolent pursuit of fairness, justice and equality. King’s fight for justice was not just for African-Americans. A civil rights activist without question, but lest we forget, King was an activist for human rights.

A year prior to his death, it was King’s opposition to the Vietnam war that brought him to the Great North to speak at the University of Minnesota, as chronicled in the photo on this page, which is part of the archives at the Minnesota Historical Society. The reason for King’s fateful visit to Memphis on April 4, 1968 was in support of the multiethnic sanitation workers’ strike.

Many postulate it was King’s coalition building that led to his assassination.

While theories swirl, the reality remains. Fifty years ago Wednesday (April 4), the world lost one of humanity’s greatest ambassadors.

The bullet that struck King ended a life but it could not end the movement. King lives on in the spirit of hope that elected Barack Obama to the office of the presidency.

King lives on in spirit of the Black Lives Matter movement.

King lives on in the spirit of the 2017 Women’s March.

In the recent March for Our Lives, King lives on both figuratively and literally. The march embodied his spirit, and

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking in 1967 at the University of Minnesota against the Vietnam War. 9-year-old Yolanda Renee King – a granddaughter he never got to know, who poignantly spoke – shares his DNA. The March for Our Lives is further

proof that a bullet can silence a man, but it is deafened by the movement.

But had that bullet never been fired. Where, oh

where would we be … as a people, as a nation, as humans.

Just Imagine … because he was just 39 years old.

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Twin Cities team selected for new national anti-displacement policy network PolicyLink announced Minneapolis and St. Paul have been selected for the first cohort of the All-In Cities AntiDisplacement Policy Network.

Along with a network of nine other cities, a team from Minneapolis and St. Paul will work together over the next year on strategies to fight displacement. The other cities selected for the cohort are Austin, Boston, Buffalo, Denver, Nashville, Philadelphia, Portland, San José and Santa Fe. “As leaders in their communities, the participants in this network are advancing strategies to halt the forces that are pushing low-income people and people of color out of cities, while creating the conditions for our cities and communities to thrive,” said Angela Glover Blackwell, CEO of PolicyLink.

“We hope this network will be an opportunity to sharpen these strategies, develop new and innovative ideas, and amplify what is working so that we can spread success across the nation.”

Each city selected created

a team including elected officials, senior city staff, and community leaders. The Minneapolis-St. Paul team includes Minneapolis Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins, Minneapolis City Council Member Jeremiah Ellison, St. Paul City Council Member Chris Tolbert, Owen Duckworth (Alliance for Metropolitan Stability), Neeraj Mehta (Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota), Shannon Smith Jones (HOPE Community), Tia Williams (Frogtown Neighborhood Association), Andrea Brennan (Director of Housing Policy and Development, City of Minneapolis), Amy Geisler (Principal Project Manager, City of St. Paul) and Tony Johnson (Planner, City of St. Paul).

To bring about equity, the teams will look at a range of strategies, that may include renter protections, community land trusts and community ownership models, commercial neighborhood stabilization, inclusionary housing and

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other development strategies.

The network participants will first meet at the PolicyLink

Equity Summit in Chicago, April 11- April 13, with one additional network gathering in Fall 2018.

Previous PolicyLink and the USC Program for Environmental

and Regional Equity (PERE) research found that reducing rent burdens, one of the main causes of displacement, would put $124 billion back in the pockets of renters. The study found that renters are the majority in the 100 largest cities in America, yet 51 percent are rent burdened (paying more than 30 percent of their income on rent). More than 60 percent of households led by women of color are rent burdened.

“In Minneapolis, displacement pressures are rising and the cost to Black communities, immigrant communities, indigenous communities, and low income communities is incongruent with the stated values of our city. I believe we can improve a city without displacing people and my hope is that, between the many brilliant minds on this cohort, we will be able to create a roadmap for anti-displacement work and policies that other cities can mechanize,” said Ellison.

Document raises questions about escalating government surveillance and criminalization of Black activists

Racial justice groups sue DHS to release contents of fully redacted ‘Race Paper’ Racial justice organizations filed a lawsuit March 19 against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release the contents of the agency’s blacked-out memo referred to in government documents as the “Race Paper.”

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Color of Change, the groups suing, first uncovered the existence of the “Race Paper” via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to DHS, which sent them a fully redacted version with only the name of the attachment visible. Advocates argue that the existence of the “Race Paper,” among other documents they obtained, confirms the targeted surveillance that many Black activists and organizers around the country have reported, and raises alarming questions about the agency’s approach to Black people engaging in protected First Amendment activity.

“The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are at war with Black activists,” said Rashad Robinson, executive director of Color of Change.

“The documents we’ve forced the federal government to release expose how these agencies are demonizing and intimidating Black activists – people who are rightly demanding that our country be more just – through coordinated and systemic surveillance.”

The redacted “Race Paper” is the newest of a slew of documents the groups have obtained that reveal how DHS and the FBI have both monitored and surveilled the Movement for Black Lives and pushed a state-sanctioned narrative that criminalizes Black protestors. The documents the groups received consist of a number of emails from the DHS sub-agency, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, each with an attached, fully redacted,

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A redacted email regarding the government-called, “Race Paper;” documents regarding the surveillance of activist groups such as Black Lives Matter. version of the “Race Paper.”

Another set of DHS and FBI documents revealed in November 2017 show how federal agencies characterized Black protestors as “Black Supremacist Extremists” and portrayed protected First Amendment protest activity as violence-inciting as a justification to surveil activists.

The documents were in stark contrast with the agencies’ communications regarding white supremacist groups, whom they deemed as engaging in “lawful” protest activity.

Between May and December of 2017, DHS and the FBI turned over hundreds of pages of emails, reports, policies, and surveillance documents to the Center for Constitutional

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Rights and Color of Change as a result of the FOIA request, many partially or fully redacted.

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“Black and Brown activists and the public in general should not be left to speculate as to why DHS prepared a document called the ‘Race Paper,’ circulated multiple versions of it, and called for in-person meetings to discuss its contents, but now fights to keep every word from seeing the light of day,” said Omar Farah, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. “But given the longstanding and unconstitutional pattern of state surveillance of Black-led political movements, it bears repeating that FOIA is about transparency, not

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protecting government agencies from embarrassment.”

The Color of Change and the Center for Constitutional Rights first filed the FOIA request to the agencies in October 2016 to uncover how DHS and the FBI were monitoring and surveilling the Movement for Black Lives, and Black protestors and organizers exercising their First Amendment constitutional rights at protests across the country.

The request was specifically directed at the monitoring of protest activity whose subject matter or theme involved police violence, criminal justice, racial injustice, or the Movement for Black Lives. The request

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By Jonathan Palmer Executive Director, Hallie Q. Brown Community Center On the eve of the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I find it important to reflect back on how far we have advanced and how close we have come to redeeming that promissory note that America has made to its citizens of color regarding our “unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” I think if we pause and look around at the world today, we would owe Dr. King an apology for not reaching the mountaintop.

The idea that in the last year we have seen racism rise and justice falter, the idea of

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who is on “American Idol” is more widely known and regarded than who is on death row … the idea that almost 15 percent of the people in this country live in poverty should give anyone pause, should make anyone stop and wonder if this day was the day that it started. That if it had not come, where would our nation’s poor and people of color have risen?

Dr. King spoke about love and compassion and leadership and inspired a nation to say “no more” to the oppression, the marginalization, the hate, and yet we have allowed the hate and anger to creep back in over the past five decades. Just look at a comments section on any social media. Our world is in greater need than ever

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Blackwell Burke P.A. again named to the BTI Client Service A-Team list for 2018 Blackwell Burke P.A has once again been named to the BTI Client Service A-Team list for 2018.

That’s significant, because the annual BTI Client Service A-Team ranking is limited solely to law firms considered by clients to deliver the absolute best levels of client service.

The BTI Client Service A-Team is the only law firm ranking based solely on objective feedback from corporate counsel. In addition to being previously recognized on the BTI Client Service A-Team, Blackwell Burke has also been

previously recognized as a BTI Client Service All-Star.

For the past 17 years, BTI has published a ranking of client service excellence for the corporate law firm market.

“Our relentless commitment to delivering excellent results for our clients is a fundamental tenet of the work we do.

We are proud to see how that commitment translates into client feedback,” said Blackwell Burke partner, Gerardo “Jerry” Alcazar.

Blackwell Burke P.A. is a certified minority-owned litigation trial firm.

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Night of Distinction - Crack v. Opioids: The Politics of Race and Addiction The Black Law Students Association is hosting Night of Distinction, April 11 at 6 p.m. at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, 1100 LaSalle Ave.,

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The Night of Distinction is an opportunity to discuss pertinent current issues. The theme for this year is Crack v. Opioids: The Politics of Race and Addiction.

The Hon. Pamela Alexander of the Hennepin County Fourth Judicial District, is the keynote speaker. Alexander has been a judge in Hennepin County since 1983. She has spent

her career advocating for fairness for marginalized groups in the criminal justice system. During the “war on drugs” Alexander continued to speak out against sentencing disparities of crack cocaine users versus power cocaine users.

The April 11 discussion will explore the criminalized response to addicts of color, particularly

Black people in comparison to the more recent opioid crisis, which mainstream media and government has often depicted as an issue affecting the white community.

This will be an open and discussion on the influence of racial politics in discussions about drug crises, particularly pertaining to users of crack and opioids.

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In addition, there will be an awards ceremony for the St. Thomas Faculty of the Year, Community Organization of the Year, and Judge/Attorney of the Year. There will also be a performance along with a catered dinner.

The program is free and open to the public.

Black marchers see gun violence differently

By Alexa Spencer, Howard University News Service WASHINGTON, D.C. – Adia Granger knows gun violence intimately.

The 16-year-old lives in Baltimore, the city with the highest murder rate of any major city in America. Of the 343 people killed in Baltimore last year, 295 died by gunfire, more than New York City or Los Angeles – cities with more than 10 times Baltimore’s population. Gun-related deaths accounted for 88 percent of the city’s homicides.

Many of the victims were young. Markel Scott, 19, shot six times. Steven Jackson, 18, shot in the head. Shaquan Raymone Trusty, 16, shot multiple times in the upper body. Tyrese Davis, 15, and Jeffrey Quick, 15, shot in same neighborhood within blocks of one another. Granger’s own cousin was shot while walking home from work.

Like her cousin, most all of them victims were Black.

Their deaths were the reason she and a group of classmates from Western High School were among the more than 800,000 who rallied in the nation’s capital March 24 to demand more action to deal with gun violence.

“I came here to represent Baltimore,” said Granger Granger was among several busloads of students sent to the march by Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh. For them, gun violence is not new. It is a longstanding issue.

Granger, a high school junior, joined the national movement for gun control sparked by the Parkland, Fla. shooting by marching out of

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Adia Granger, 16, (far right) among fellow Western High School students who traveled from Baltimore to march against gun violence in Washington, D.C.

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Frederick Shelton, an English as a second language teacher in D.C., marches for the safety of immigrant students.

her school on March 14. Like many other protestors, she said she wanted the federal government to do more to address the issue.

“It’s unacceptable what is going on,” said Granger.

“And Congress has not done anything about it.”

Granger was one of many Black marchers present to protest not only against mass shootings, but also police brutality and gun violence that plagues neighborhoods of color.

Frederick Shelton, 43, stood aside the packed streets, holding a sign that read, If the opposite of pro is con ... what is the opposite of progress?” The message of his sign, Shelton said, is “We’re not moving forward.”

“It’s just a matter of time before any of us get shot, because our federal government is not doing anything,” said Shelton.

“We’re all just sitting around

waiting for the next mass shooting. It could be you.

It could be me. And that’s a horrible way to live.”

Shelton teaches English as a second language to immigrant students in Washington, D.C. He suggested the federal government reserve guns for military personnel only.

“I believe that there is no place for guns in our society,” said Shelton.

“Guns are for the military.”

Tameka Garner-Barry, 38-year-old mother of three, brought her sons, 2, 5, and 11, to the march to “reclaim” their schools and their community.

Her children, though young, have recognized the problem and wanted to be at the march to speak out.

“These are issues and concerns that they’ve had, so it’s only right that they (her children) come out and voice their opinions and let their voices be heard,” said Garner-Barry.

Standing at his mother’s hip, 5-year-old Bryson GarnerBarry spoke in his feelings.

“I feel like people have to stop the violence because people are getting hurt,” said the 5-year-old.

Tameka Garner-Barry said she wanted to see the removal of guns from the streets and heightened security in school.

“I want Congress to know that we do control the vote, and that we take these issues seriously,” she said. “And I want the NRA to be dismissed altogether.”

Nia Smith, 21, a graduating senior film production major from Chicago at Howard University, was also at the march. Chicago had the highest number of murders in the nation two years in a row. In 2016, 771 were killed. The number declined to 650 murdered in 2017, still higher than the number of murders in Los Angeles and New York City combined.

“Gun violence has

always been a part of my life,” said Smith. “I have had family members that I’ve lost to gun violence.”

Though the march addressed gun violence, including some speakers who talked about gun violence against African-American men and women, she said she felt certain forms of gun violence, such as police brutality, were overlooked by protesters because of class and race.

“They fail to see that gun violence is gun violence, period. The police and the perpetrators of the classroom shootings,” said Smith.

To fully combat the issue, there must be support across racial lines, she said.

“I don’t think they should be separated,” said Smith.

“I think white people should march the way they marched today for the Black Lives Matter movement. They all died the same way. They all died by a bullet.”

And this, more than any other time in history, represents what Dr. King called the “fierce urgency of now.” We cannot stand idly by while injustice stands anywhere. We cannot wait for the poor and destitute to “fix”

their lives. We cannot allow the economic destruction within our communities to go unchallenged.

We must stand together and honor Dr. King›s legacy, we must work to fulfill that dream of every valley being

exalted, and every hill and mountain made low. We most hold our heads up high, link arms together and refuse to cede control and let the corrupt members of our society further the pain and suffering of those least

among us. We must change our world, and we must change it for the better and fulfill the charge put forth by Dr. King.

It is right, it is just, and Lord knows it is time.

protests and activists.

“Black communities know all too well how poisonous this kind of surveillance and intimidation is for social justice movements. During the civil rights era, agents with the FBI’s COINTELPRO program vigorously sought to discredit and destroy Black leaders and movements while they did nothing to address the injustices our communities were

protesting,” said Robinson. “We can’t allow the FBI to essentially operationalize COINTELPRO for the 21st century without a fight. Up until recently, we’ve known very little about the government’s surveillance of our communities. But, by forcing the disclosure of more information about these surveillance efforts, including our demand today for the full and unredacted ‘Race Paper,’ we can better understand

these attacks on Black activism and fight to prevent a new generation of Black activists from demonization, incarceration, intimidation, and punishment.”

“The very purpose of FOIA is to inform the people, check government corruption, and ensure accountability.

DHS’s refusal to share any information without adequate explanation about the ‘Race

Paper’ undermines the law’s critical principles, so vital to a democracy,” said Avidan Cover, professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. “Without more, we should be highly skeptical of the government’s invocation of national security as the basis for secrecy when it comes to surveillance, race, and the right to speak, assemble, and protest.”

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Insight2Health Fitness Challenge: Halfway home

By Nadvia Davis Deep inhales, groans and exhales filled the Northside studio at the Cora McCorvey YMCA during a Saturday (March 24) morning yoga class.

Participants shared heavy sighs of relief during their session. The sighs were not only for their abilities to move through difficult yoga poses, but for reaching the halfway mark of the 10-week Insight2Health Fitness Challenge.

Participants, both men and women who were once strangers or perhaps friends starting the challenge, have reached a milestone as a community. For some that meant rising as early as 6 a.m. together to break a sweat.

Fitness warriors and coowners of Noir Elite Fitness,

Valerie Fleurantin and Chaz (pronounced Shay) Sandifer, teamed up with Insight News founder and editor-in-chief, Al McFarlane to spearhead the current edition of this fitness movement; one envisioned several years ago by McFarlane.

The challenge sees up to 20 participants per session taking part in a variety of fitness activities that include cardio kickboxing, weight training, yoga/meditation and support from nutritionists.

“Every week they are breaking our bodies down and building them up in ways that I don’t think any of us could have imagined,” said participant Robin Wonsley.

Yoga Instructor Femi Akinnagbe used a soothing tone to guide participants through a sequence of yoga poses including downward dog, cobra and child’s pose. Akinnagbe also

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encouraging words of wisdom.

Take a “deep breathe in

the space of your life that needs healing then exhale,” said Akinnagbe.

Akinnagbe offered hands on adjustments and reminded the participants to modify poses as needed. Many participants took advantage of using yoga blocks to provide more comfort in certain poses, like standing split. Throughout the first five weeks, Akinnagbe noticed small changes in the participant’s desire, mental toughness and physical bodies as they step outside of their comfort zones.

“People seem committed.

People are increasing in strength and flexibility,” said Akinnagbe.

Participants actively engaged in yoga movements as they held poses such as downward dog while balancing on their toes. Akinnagbe pushed participants to hold the poses for no longer than 10 seconds at a time.

First time yoga participant Daisy Martinez has embraced meeting new people and trying to overcome some of the challenges of being in a new exercise environment.

“I have never done yoga.

It has helped me get more balance,” said Martinez.

By the end of the 10-week program Martinez has set a goal of being at least five to 10 pounds down.

Akinnagbe closed out the yoga practice by playing the song “Glory” by John Legend featuring Common to symbolize that as they press toward that 10-week mark and complete the program they will reach personal victory. To find out how to participate in the next rounds of the Insight2Health Fitness Challenge call Carmen Robles at (612) 588-1313 or email carmen@insightnews.com.

Not getting enough sleep is hurting you

By Michael S. Jaffee, TheConversation.com Many of us are still suffering from the loss of the hour’s sleep we incurred by moving our clocks forward.

For millions, the loss will be an added insult to the inadequate sleep they experience daily.

Surveys show that 40 percent of American adults get less than the nightly minimum of seven hours of sleep recommended by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the National Sleep Foundation. The National Institutes for Health estimate that between 50 million and 70 million people do not get enough sleep. These recommendations for minimal sleep are based on a

review of many scientific studies evaluating the role of sleep in our bodies and the effects of sleep deprivation on our ability of our body to function at our peak performance level.

Why sleep matters The problems caused by sleep shortage go beyond tiredness. In recent years, studies have shown that adults who were short sleepers, or those who got less than seven hours in 24 hours, were more likely to report chronic health conditions, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, asthma and depression, compared to those who got enough sleep.

There are more challenges for children, as they are thought to have an increased sleep need compared to adults.

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends children 6 to 12 years of age should sleep nine to 12 hours a day and teens 13 to 18 should sleep eight to 10 hours daily on a regular basis to promote optimal health. A Sleep Foundation poll of parents suggested that American children are getting one hour of sleep or more per night less than what their body and brain require.

Researchers have found that sleep deprivation of even a single hour can have a harmful effect on a child’s developing brain. Inadequate sleep can affect synaptic plasticity and memory encoding, and it can result in inattentiveness in the classroom.

Every one of our biological systems is affected by sleep.

When we don’t sleep long

enough or when we experience poor quality of sleep, there can be serious biological consequences.

When we are sleep deprived, our bodies become more aroused through an enhanced sympathetic nervous system, known as “fight or flight.” There is a greater propensity for increased blood pressure and possible risk of coronary heart disease.

Our endocrine system releases more cortisol, a stress hormone.

The body has less glucose tolerance and greater insulin resistance, which in the long term can cause an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes. Also, sleep deprivation causes a reduction in growth hormone and muscle maintenance.

We also rely on sleep to maintain our metabolism. Sleep deprivation can lead to decreased release of the hormone leptin and increased release of the hormone ghrelin, which can be associated with increased appetite and weight gain.

The body also relies on sleep to help with our immune system.

Sleep deprivation is associated with increased inflammation and decreased antibodies to influenza and decreased resistance to infection.

Inadequate sleep has been associated with a negative effect on mood as well as decreased attention and increased memory difficulty. In addition, someone who is sleep deprived may experience a decrease in pain tolerance and in reaction times.

Occupational studies have associated sleep deprivation with decreased performance,

increased car accidents, and more days missed from work.

The

role of the brain Researchers have known for a while that brain health is an important aspect of sleep. Notably, sleep is an important part of memory consolidation and learning.

Newer research suggest another important aspect of sleep for our brain. There is

system, which helps signal the brain to sleep using the release of the natural hormone melatonin.

It turns out that our body’s system for regulating melatonin and our sleep schedule is most powerfully controlled by light.

There are cells in the retina of our eye that communicate directly with the brain’s biological clock regulators located in the hypothalamus and this pathway is most affected

Researchers have found that sleep deprivation of even a single hour can have a harmful effect on a child’s developing brain.

a system for the elimination of possibly harmful proteins such as abnormal variants of amyloid. This waste removal process, using what is known as the glymphatic system, relies on sleep to effectively eliminate these proteins from the brain. These are the same proteins found to be elevated in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Studies show that older adults with less sleep have greater accumulations of these proteins in their brains.

Our sleep-wake cycle is regulated by the circadian

by light. These neurons have been found to be most affected by light waves from the blue spectrum or blue light. This is the kind of light most prominent in electronic lights from computers and smartphones. This has become a modern challenge that can adversely affect our natural sleep-wake cycle.

Additional factors that can hamper sleep include pain conditions, medications for other conditions, and the increased demands and connectedness of modern society.

The buzz on bees: How to help Minnesota’s busy pollinators recover

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When you sit down to your next meal, notice the fruits and vegetables on the table and think of Minnesota’s many bee species.

Yes, bees.

Without them and their ability to pollinate, more than a third of the world’s crops would not grow and 90 percent of flowering plant species would not grow.

Right now honey bees are stressed because of pesticide overuse, diseases and parasites.

Fewer bees means less honey which explains the jump in honey prices at the supermarket.

You can make a difference, by growing nectar-abundant plants from April through September at home (tomatoes, clovers) and provide nesting habitats to help bees recover and thrive. See the University of Minnesota “Bee Lab” website (www.beelab.umn.edu) or see “Minnesota’s Pollinators” on the Department of Natural Resources website, www.mndnr. gov/pollinators.

Most bees build nests on the ground, said Linda Radimecky, an interpretive naturalist at Afton

Growing nectar-abundant plants such as tomatoes and clovers can help honey bees recover and thrive.

State Park near Hastings. The park, perhaps best known for its proximity to the St. Croix River, also features abundant prairie land. Radimecky has seen bees burrow into their ground nests at the park. Prairie land provides a great food source to bees because various plants bloom in tandem during the growing season. Cone flowers, grasses and other plants cover the fields whereas a corn field or sunflower field produces only one plant and grows once and is harvested.

“When you’re out walking and see bees, observe them,” said Radimecky. “There’s a lot we could learn from them and about them.” For example, which bee species – Minnesota has more than 400 bee species – prefer certain flowers and which are generalists? Also, do bees collect nectar randomly

throughout daytime hours or in shifts?

A walk through any state park this summer might satisfy your curiosity about bee behavior, or you could create bee-friendly flower beds or gardens at home. A “Parks for Monarchs” program is restoring 520 acres of habitat for monarch butterflies, bees and other native pollinators at seven state parks.

Late in 2019, these designated bee and butterfly areas will be on display, as well as exhibits showing the importance of pollinators and how to help support them.

The habitats with interpretive exhibits will be located at Afton, Buffalo River, Fort Snelling, Flandrau, Lake Carlos, Minneopa, Myre-Big Island, Whitewater, Wild River and William O’Brien state parks.

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Phillips Aquatics Center inside Phillips Community Center, 2323 11th Ave. S., Minneapolis, opens to the public April 21.

Phillips Aquatics Center opens April 21 The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) is getting ready for a big splash in the Phillips community.

Under construction for the past year, the Phillips

Aquatics Center opens to the public on Saturday, April 21.

Located inside the Phillips Community Center, 2323 11th Ave. S., Minneapolis, the pool offers year-round indoor

swimming and a range of programs.

Program highlights include water aerobics, open swim for families, water fitness for seniors, dedicated swim times for a range

of

groups and more.

Facility features include a renovated six-lane pool that can accommodate swim competitions and features a spectator area, a new four-lane pool

geared to swim instruction, with four lanes and zerodepth accessibility and a community meeting room.

The grand opening celebration begins at 11:30 a.m. and includes

remarks from MPRB Superintendent Mary Merrill, Commissioner AK Hassan and and project supporters from the Phillips Community.

Minneapolis schedules a round of activities for Youth Violence Prevention Week

The City of Minneapolis is taking part in Youth Violence prevention week, which runs through April 8.

The city’s participation is part of a national public education initiative to call attention to the issue of youth violence, identify strategies to combat this public health threat and

promote the positive role youth and adults can play in making their communities and schools safer.

A schedule of activities includes Youth Media Force hosted by Asian Media Access, Monday, 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the Northside YMCA, 1711 W. Broadway Ave.

and Blankets against Violence hosted by YMCA of Greater Twin Cities, Tuesday from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. at Northside YMCA. On Wednesday, Talking Circle takes place from 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. at Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC), Room

H1002; 1501 Hennepin Ave., Youth Training on Historical Trauma, from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. at UROC, 2001 Plymouth Ave. N. and Girl’s Symposium, 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. at North Commons; 1801 North James Ave. N. On Thursday, the Bridges to Manhood

Conference takes place from 8 a.m.

– 3 p.m. at MCTC. A community mural project will occur on Friday from 12 p.m. – 4 p.m. at the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, 2300 15th Ave. S. Saturday, there will be rally held at the Capri

Theater, 2027 W. Broadway Ave. from 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday a 3-on-3 basketball tournament and barbeque from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. at Farview Park, 621 North 29th Ave. N., hosted

by Run and Shoot and Mad Dads. Onsite registration starts at 9 a.m.

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Monday, April 2 PANEL DISCUSSION Fifty Years Later: Has the Dream Been Realized?

Guthrie Theater 818 S 2nd St., Minneapolis 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

All ages No cover

April 2 April 15, 2018

The Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Historical Society and a group of panelists discuss the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. Harry Colbert, Jr. of Insight News moderates this discussion with panelists Chanda Smith Baker, senior vice president of Community Impact at The Minneapolis Foundation, Dr. Josie Johnson, human rights and social justice activist, Dr. Keith Mayes, associate professor, University of Minnesota and Anthony Newby, executive director at Neighborhoods Organizing for Change.

Tuesday, April 3 BOOK LAUNCH

Aesthetically It! is a list of picks from the editors of Aesthetically Speaking. Aesthetically It! features venues, events, outings and more that are worthy of “It” status.

If you have a venue, event or outing that you feel is “It” worthy, email us at aestheticallyit@ insightnews.com

Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What It Means When A Man Falls from the Sky” The Loft 1011 Washington Ave S, Ste 300, Minneapolis 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

All ages No cover Winner of the 2017 Kirkus Prize in Fiction and finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, Nneka Arimah launches her new book

Hamline University 112 Anderson Center 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Educator and author, F. Erik Brooks will deliver a keynote address for the 2018 Social Justice Symposium. Brooks is a professor and the associate director of the Centennial Honors College at Western Illinois University. Since 2006, he has authored or edited 10 books, including “Thurgood Marshall: A Biography.”

Thurgood Marshall: A Warrior for Social Justice and Civil Rights

SOUL R&B ROYALTY

BETTYE LAVETTE

Running through April 8, take part in a three-day anime convention complete with cosplay, panels, room parties, live music, guests, a dealer room, an artist alley, video games, table top gaming, and more.

Saturday, April 7

Wednesday, April 4

HIP-HOP

KIDS/YOGA

Fifth Annual Twin Cities Dilla Day featuring Pete Rock Icehouse 2528 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis 10:30 p.m. – 2 a.m.

21-plus $18 advance, $20 door

Kids Yoga Camp Minnesota Power Yoga 2905 Garfield Ave., Minneapolis 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Ages 3 – 10 $25 daily, $100 for the week Kids can learn and practice yoga through April 6th at Minnesota Power Yoga. For more information call (612) 915-0011 or email magic@ minnesotapoweryoga.com.

In honor of one of the great producers in hip-hop and soul, the departed J Dilla, this year’s Dilla Day will be headlined by the legendary Pete Rock, with performances by Kanser, Hakim Bey, Sun & La, Se›Anna, and DJs Espada and Francisco.

Thursday, April 5

Sunday, April 8

HIP-HOP

POP

Rich Garvey Birthday Show Honey 205 E. Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis 9 p.m. $5 21-plus

Todrick Hall Varsity Theater 1308 4th St. S.E., Minneapolis 7:30 p.m. $30-$139

Liberian-American hip-hop artist, Rich Garvey celebrates his birthday at Honey.

Friday, April 6

LECTURE

Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 1300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.

CONVENTION/ANIME

Season Nine “American Idol” semi-finalist Todrick Hall is more than just a singer. He is also a dancer, actor and drag queen. Catch the show at The Varsity.

Monday, April 9 PLAY/THEATER

Anime Detour 2018: New Game +

“The Bandaged Place” by

FRANÇOIS MOUTIN & KAVITA SHAH DUO

Harrison David Rivers The Playwrights› Center 2301 E. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis 7 p.m.

No cover When a former lover resurfaces, re-opening a painful wound, Jonah Irby is forced to turn to his precocious daughter and his tough love grandmother for support. A brutal and lyrical play about the things we hang on to and the price of moving forward.

Tuesday, April 10 ART

No cover Yangalele means happiness in Kikongo, the language of the Congo. This family friendly event includes live music, puppets and more.

Friday, April 13 COMEDY Jaboukie Young-White Whole Music Club 300 Washington Ave. S.E., Minneapolis 8 p.m.

18-plus (unless accompanied by parent or adult) $5, $10

May Day Community Build Workshops In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre 1500 E. Lake St., Minneapolis 7 p.m.

Jaboukie Young-White is a New York based comedian who has been featured on the “Tonight Show.”

Help to build some of the floats for the annual May Day parade.

PARTY

Wednesday, April 11

African Night: After Party Azul Night Club 400 3rd Ave N., Minneapolis 9 p.m. – 2 a.m.

21-plus

CELEBRATION Pan-Afrikan Week Pan-Afrikan Student Union 2211 Riverside Ave., Minneapolis 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

Pan-Africanism relates to all the people of the African diaspora.

Join in a week of recognition at Augsburg College. Wednesday’s event is “Painting While Black.”

Saturday, April 14

African Night 2018 will be followed with an after party hosted by The Compozers at Azul Night Club.

Sunday, April 15 HIP-HOP

WORLD

Kirko Bangz and Harvey J with DJ Cam Jones Azul Night Club 400 3rd Ave N., Minneapolis 8 p.m. – 2 a.m.

21-plus $20-$60

CD party: “Land of Yangalele” Midtown Global Market 920 E. Lake St., Minneapolis 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Houston based rapper/ singer, Kirko Bangz, returns to Minneapolis with North Carolina’s Harvey J.

Thursday, April 12

“39 Seconds” documents the life of John Donaldson, maybe the best and most unheralded pitcher in professional baseball.

Life and legacy of the greatest ‘unknown’ baseball player restored

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408 ST. PETER STREET • ST. PAUL, MN 55102

The legacy of John Donaldson, one of the greatest and most unheralded baseball players, will be restored in the feature documentary film “39 Seconds.”

Born in Glasgow, Mo., on Feb. 20, 1891, Donaldson’s life was a life of baseball, and was known in his day as the “Greatest Colored Player in the World.” In a 32-year career that began at age 17, he played in more than 2,300 games from 1908 to 1949, when he became the first Black scout in Major League Baseball history, working for the Chicago White Sox. Then he disappears, only to be buried in an unmarked grave in Alsip, Ill. The documentary will highlight the career of Donaldson and tell the story of his life as a ballplayer, considering the hardships a Black man at that time had

to overcome. Moreover, the documentary hope to explain why such a legendary ball player just disappeared from the American story.

Research for this documentary has been labeled by the Center for Negro Leagues Baseball Research as, “The most extensive research project that has ever been undertaken related to Black baseball.”

Donaldson is known to have won 405 games, the most of any segregated pitcher in history. Combined with 5,034 documented strikeouts from playing in more than 550 different cities, the numbers are impressive.

Pre-Production has begun with a major Kickstarter effort (www.kickstarter.com/ projects/1039747489/39seconds). The film is set to shoot late summer.

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‘Quest’ plays the Capri for First Thursday Films The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul and the Capri Theater present Jonathan Olshefski’s “Quest,” an award-winning documentary that tells the intricate story of 10 years in one Philadelphia family’s life.

Filmed with vérité intimacy for nearly a decade, “Quest” is the portrait of the Rainey family, living in North Philadelphia.

Beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency, Christopher “Quest” Rainey, and his wife, Christine’a “Ma Quest” Rainey raise a family while nurturing a community of hip-hop artists in their home music studio. It’s a safe space where all are welcome, but this creative sanctuary can’t always shield them from the strife that grips their neighborhood. Epic in scope, “Quest” is a vivid illumination of race and class in America, and a testament to love, healing and hope.

Each First Thursday Films screening at the Capri is followed by a discussion of

the movie. For “Quest” D. A. Bullock, founder of Bully Creative Shop, a feature film, documentary, media art and digital content social enterprise, will keynote the discussion. Bullock is a 2015 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant recipient, a 2016 Intermedia Arts/City of Minneapolis Creative Citymaking Artist and a 2017 Bush Fellow. His cinematography work can be seen in the documentary film, “Vanishing Pearls,” which tells the story of Louisiana Black oyster fishermen and their struggle and trauma after the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010.

The screening for “Quest” takes place this Thursday (April 5) at 7 p.m. at the Capri Theater, 2027 W. Broadway, Minneapolis.

Tickets to First Thursday Films are $5 and can be purchased in advance at www.mspfilm.org or at the door the night of the show.

Christopher Rainey (left) and Christine’a Rainey are featured in the documentary, “Quest,” April 5 at the Capri.

Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival screens at the Capri The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul and the Capri Theater have announced the schedule of Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF) films that will be screened at the Capri Theater.

The 2018 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, presenting 250-plus new films representing more than 70 countries, takes place April 12 – April 28.

MSPIFF, one of the longest-running film festivals in the country

and the largest film event in the Midwest, draws an attendance of 50,000 annually. Ticket prices are $14 general public, $11 Film Society members, and $8 youth under 25 and Students w/ID. The Capri Theater is located at 2027 West Broadway, Minneapolis.

Films that will be screened at the Capri include “Roller Dreams,” April 13, 7 p.m., “Don’t Get Trouble in Your Mind: The Carolina Chocolate Drops Story,” April 14, 4 p.m., “Piano Hero and

Superfriends,” April 14, 7 p.m., “The Book of Clarence,” April 15, 4 p.m., “Beyond Dreams (Dröm Vidare),” April 15, 7 p.m., “Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?,” April 26, 5 p.m., “Five Fingers for Marseilles,” April 26, 7 p.m., “Miracle (Stebuklas),” April 27, 5 p.m. and “Crime + Punishment,” April 27, 7 p.m.

More information on the film festival is available at www.thecapritheater. org and www.mspfilm.org.

MNHS.ORG “Five Fingers of Marseilles” is one of nine films to be screened at the Capri as part of the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival in April. This film runs at 7pm Thursday, April 26 at the Capri.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking against war in Vietnam, St. Paul, 1967, MNHS collections.

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It has been 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN. As we reflect on this watershed event in American history, we have to ask ourselves if the dream he gave his life for has been realized, or are we still fighting to get to the mountaintop.

Since the turbulent times of 1968, the more things changed, the more they stayed the same. The marches for equality and basic human rights that characterized the ’60s were resurrected with the blatant shooting of unarmed black men and the continued harassment faced by women of all races. Communities have taken to the street to lead peaceful protests to express their outrage at police violence, sexual harassment, and most recently, gun violence in schools.

In the case of Dr. King, it seems that 50 years is not enough time for the country to heal from the racial wounds that began when the first enslaved person set

foot in Jamestown in 1619. Fifty years is not enough time to make up for the horrors of slavery, the degradation of Jim Crow, and the inequalities in the legal, education, and housing systems that continue to impact African Americans. To answer my original question, we are still fighting to get to the mountaintop and it is an uphill battle.

To learn more about the assassination of Dr. King and other events that defined a generation and a county, I invite you to visit The 1968 Exhibit, now on view at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. For specifics about the exhibit and related programs, please visit mnhs.org/1968.

MELANIE ADAMS Melanie Adams, PhD, is the senior director of Guest Experience and Educational Services at the Minnesota Historical Society. In this role she oversees MNHS programs, exhibits, and historic sites located throughout the state, which serve one million people per year.

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Text and Facebook Messenger messages didn’t go out until Friday night for a Sunday gathering, but the late notice didn’t suppress turnout for Terry Austin’s birthday party at Rojo Mexican Grill in the West End. Austin, founder of Positive

Images, and a Bush Fellow, celebrated his birthday in a private room at Rojo with the backdrop of the NCAA men’s basketball game on the big screen and the sounds of classic hip-hop piped through the room. Austin wasn’t the only Aries

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celebrating, as near a dozen or so of his zodiac mates were among the nearly 50 who came out to celebrate.

Insight News was able to capture a few of the scenes from the March 25 gathering.

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Sherrye Frazier, Carla Rison and Nicki Purvis spending quality time among friends.

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Tommie Taylor (left) and Dana Joubert Hayes at Rojo.

The man of the hour, Terry Austin (left) with Briana McCall Cress.

Desralynn Cole came out to share her birthday wishes.

Positive Images’ Tommy McNeal.

It may have been Terry Austin’s birthday, but 4-year-old Kamdyn Fleming soaked up his fare share of attention.

Quest 7pm Thursday, 4/5 Discussion Leader: D.A. Bullock $5 tickets: mspfilm.org or at the door Be @ the Capri 2027 West Broadway, Minneapolis 55411 www.thecapritheater.org

‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ comes to the Guthrie The Guthrie Theater, 818 S. 2nd St., Minneapolis, announced casting for “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,”

which runs April 7 – May 27.

Based on the screenplay

by William Rose for the 1967 Academy Award-nominated film which starred Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” is reimagined by playwright Todd Kreidler.

The play takes place in the spring of 1967, the same year that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Loving v. Virginia that bans on interracial marriage were unconstitutional. The United States is caught in the fervor and protests of the Vietnam War even while the “Summer of Love” is in bloom. The Civil Rights Act is only three years old, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is leading a movement that has hopes for changing the country.

In “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” Matt and Christina Drayton are a progressive middle-aged couple living in San Francisco when their daughter Joanna arrives home unexpectedly with Dr. John Prentice, an African-American doctor 11 years her senior.

They’re in love, and they want the Draytons’ blessing for their marriage. The Draytons have prided themselves on their liberal-mindedness and having raised “Joey” to be openminded, but now they are forced to put their values to the test against the mores of the 1960s.

“Underneath this hilarious and pointed play is an allegory which holds up a mirror to well-meaning people who truly believe they have progressive values,” said director Timothy Bond. “‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ puts those progressive values and our inherent unconscious biases to the test when we ask the question, ‘Would we be as progressive in our own homes, with our families, as the positions we take in the public arena?’ Only with a

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Maeve Colleen Moynihan (Joaanna Drayton) and JaBen Early (Dr. John Prentice) in rehearsal of the Guthrie Theater’s production of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” true change of heart can America be assured of lasting change.

And this play is about the heart.

My hope is that laughter and frank conversation, which this play is sure to inspire, will be an invitation to open the hearts of all who experience it to live more fully by what we say we believe.”

The cast of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” features Michelle Duffy as Hilary St. George, JaBen Early as Dr. John Prentice, David Manis as Matt Drayton, Maeve Coleen Moynihan as Joanna Drayton, Greta Oglesby as Mary Prentice, Peter Thomson as Monsignor Ryan, Derrick Lee Weeden as John Prentice, Sr., Regina Marie Williams as Matilda Binks and Sally Wingert as Christina Drayton.

Single tickets start at $15 for preview performances (April 7 – April 12) and are on sale now by calling (612) 377-2224 or online at www.guthrietheater.org.