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Orpheum Theatre Friday, August 14 at 8pm.

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August 3 - August 9, 2009 • MN Metro Vol. 35 No. 31 • The Journal For Community News, Business & The Arts • www.insightnews.com

Transformation

Time to move beyond change Beverley Anderson Manley, former First Lady of Jamaica will deliver the keynote address for the Jamaica Minnesota Organization’s Annual Independence Gala 7 pm Sat., August 8, 2009, at the Radisson Plaza Hotel Ballroom, 35 S. 7th

Status of Women and represented Jamaica at the Organizations of American States (OAS) Gender Section. She served as Consultant Director of the Jamaica Bureau of Women’s Affairs. Today, Manley is a gender

Anderson Manley places a transformation lens on issues of the day always looking for possibilities, no matter the situation. This is in keeping with her vision of creating opportunities for transformation of Jamaicans wherever they live. Street, in downtown Minneapolis. Anderson Manley, the widow of former Jamaican president Michael Manley, in the 1970s served as Jamaica’s representative to the United Nations Commission on the

and transformational trainer and a consultant on Third World development and communications issues. A vice president of the Third World Foundation, in Chicago, IL, Manley became a leader in the politics of the Peoples’ National

Party (PNP) in the 1970s and early 1980s. She was President of the PNP Women’s Movement and Chairperson of the PNP Political Education Programme as well as its Canvassers Training Progamme. Anderson Manley is executive producer and host of the radio program “Today with Beverley Anderson Manley which airs on Jamaica’s HOT 102 at 6-9 am every week-day morning. Anderson Manley places a transformation lens on issues of the day always looking for possibilities, no matter the situation. This is in keeping with her vision of creating opportunities for transformation of Jamaicans wherever they live. In 2008 Anderson Manley published her memoirs The Manley Memoirs and is currently launching it across North America and the United Kingdom. She will be reading from her book at the Independence Gala presentation and autographing books following her presentation.

Angie’s Hats revives elegant art of yesteryear

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Fannie Lou Hamer “Sick and tired of being sick and tired”

Beverley Anderson Manley

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Gates arrest was not first racial embarrassment for Cambridge police By Hazel Trice Edney NNPA Editor-in-Chief WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The recent outrage in response to the Cambridge Police Department’s arrest of prominent Harvard Professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates was not the first time that the Cambridge Police Department was nationally embarrassed amidst a racial incident. Ten years ago, the Cambridge Police commissioner and mayor issued a public apology after a story by this reporter exposed racially offensive teachings and language by Cambridge police officers during an interview

Renegade: The Making of a President

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Henry Louis “Skip” Gates

about the use of pepper spray. Though a decade has passed, last week’s incident in which Gates was arrested for

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By Dr. George Banks Part 1 Racism and related issues persist to this day in all aspects of our society. These issues are reflected in longstanding disparities between the life experiences of African Americans and “mainstream” Americans. If African Americans come to understand that assumptions about effectiveness breed and sustain racism then, African Americans can take the initiative to resolve these critical problems. One significant problem for African Americans is the practice of “racial profiling.” The following is a case study that illustrates ingredients that can be useful in confronting this racist practice.

Early one Saturday morning my daughter and I began our long drive to attend the funeral of my older sister who had just passed away. We would have to travel some distance through several states. We braced ourselves for a strenuous, sad trip realizing also that this was a chance to join with family and friends to honor the loss of someone special. After driving for sometime on the highway we reached a toll both, paid the required toll, and resumed our driving. Within moments of leaving the toll booth, a police unit with two officers inside, began to follow my vehicle. I was signaled to pull my vehicle over to the side of the road. After a few minutes one of the police officers approached my vehicle

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Suluki Fardan

Closing the racial economic gaps in our community

Gateway to opportunity

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A different way to handle race profiling

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By Scott Gray President/CEO Minneapolis Urban League Poised on the corner of Plymouth and Penn, tan brick arches welcome African Americans to pursue new opportunities for economic and social

development. The GloverSudduth Center for Economic Development, which houses the headquarters of the Minneapolis Urban League, is one of the most striking of all Urban League facilities out of 100+ affiliates throughout the country. The building reminds me of the building I helped to develop in Madison, WI, that is scheduled to

break-ground in September 2009. I can only hope that the Greater Madison Urban League’s facility is utilized as much as I have seen this building utilized by the community in my first 45 days. As any good architect or developer knows, the facility built must compliment the spirit and

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Health Care Reform- An important topic concerning all of us?

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NorthPoint gets $1.3 million in federal stimulus grants By Al McFarlane Insight Editor-In-Chief NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) was awarded two grants from Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) $2 billion America Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) stimulus funding for health centers. NorthPoint CEO Stella

Whitney-West said the grants made NorthPoint among the first institutions in the state to receive Stimulus funds from the federal government. Whitney-West announced the funding at the monthly meeting of Willard Homewood Organization, which meets regularly in one of the NorthPoint campus facilities on Penn Avenue North at 14th Street. “NorthPoint is a $30 million health and social services enterprise

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The rebirth of the Tavaris Jackson Fan Club Suluki Fardan

Stella Whitney-West

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