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Insight News November 9 - November 15, 2015
Vol. 42 No. 45 • The Journal For Community News, Business & The Arts • insightnews.com
Negro sections By Harry Colbert, Jr. Contributing Writer A 1935 Minneapolis Planning Area Designations map outlined clear housing boundaries to separate the community by race and income, but some are alleging the same is being done today throughout the Twin Cities. According to a reproduction of the 1935 map, areas throughout
Minneapolis were designated as “slum – Negro section” or “slum – foreign born.” While the map is archaic in the best possible light and downright racist in the worst, some say the same is happening today with communities in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park and Richfield. This time the wrongdoing is being pointed directly at the state and Metropolitan Council.
Herbert Igbanugo
The matter of Herbert Igbanugo and the Minnesota Supreme Court
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Commentary By Mshale Staff Harry Colbert, Jr.
Housing and Urban Development Sec. Julian Castro addresses a town hall on affordable housing as Rep. Keith Ellison and (far left) Mary Tingerthal, commissioner of Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, look on.
The news of the suspension of longtime Twin Cities attorney Herbert Igbanugo hit the community like a thunderbolt this past May. The Minnesota Supreme Court suspended the high profile Mr. Igbanugo for
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“The 5 largest U.S. landowners own more land than all of Black America combined” families privately own over 98 percent of U.S. land, amounting to 856 million acres, with a total worth of over a trillion dollars. Note: The disparity in these numbers have likely gotten worse since this last “Who Owns the Land” USDA report was released. Forbes states, Ted Turner (founder of CNN) alone owns over 2 million acres of land. This total is nearly a quarter of what all black Americans combined own in rural land in the U.S., and it appears Turner also owns nearly half of what all blacks own in actual farmable land. Two million acres in New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Florida and several other states. If $1 billion is the dividing line between rich and real money, then owning multiple Rhode Islands is
By Antonio Moore Huffington Post The five largest white landowners in America together own more rural land than all of black America combined. According to CNBC, this small group’s total land holdings are about 9 million acres. In the report “Who Owns the Land,” the United States Department of Agriculture disclosed all of Black America only owns just under 8 million acres. In fact, it was further explained that African Americans own less than one percent of U.S. rural land, worth a mere 14 billion dollars. While combined, white American
the definition of a land baron. Ted Turner has close to three of them, including the spectacular Vermejo Park Ranch straddling the border of New Mexico and Colorado, which would practically cover the Ocean State. Turner made his money with CNN and lost much of it by selling out to AOL Time Warner. Land has worked out better for him. We estimate his holdings to be worth at least $1 billion. We can give this greater context by looking at the “Who Owns the Land” report more closely. In their research, the USDA Economic Research Service stated, Of all private U.S. agricultural land, Whites account for 96
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Black churches show support for Obama environment plan By Savannah Harris Special to the NNPA News Wire from HU News Service WASHINGTON – Leaders of the nation’s major Black churches — representing nearly 13 million African-American members — presented over 10,000 pastors’ signatures to Congressional Black Caucus members in support of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The leaders said they are making the effort to push forward the bill, which has a goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent by 2030.
Bishop George Battle, senior bishop of A.M.E. Zion Church; the Rev. Samuel C. Tolbert, Jr., president of the National Baptist Convention of America, and the Rev. Timothy Tee Boddie, general secretary to the Progressive National Baptist Convention of America, were among the 10,000 who presented their signatures to members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who represents Oakland, Berkeley and other northern California cities applauded their effort. ” As faith and community leaders, their commitment to protecting and preserving our
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Leaders of the nation’s major Black churches, from left, the Rev. Dr. Earl D. Trent, Jr., the Rev. Dr. Timothy Tee Boddie, the Rev. Jesse V. Bottoms, Jr., the Rev. Brian K. Brown, Bishop Carroll A. Baltimore and Bishop James B. Walker presented over 10,000 pastors’ signatures to Congressional Black Caucus members in support of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
Tuskegee Airmen An effort to save the legacy grows
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fragile planet is greatly needed as we work to address climate change,” Lee said in a statement. Lee said the president’s plan and other environmental action must have a positive effect on disadvantaged communities. “This is truly an issue about justice – environmental justice, economic justice and racial justice. The negative effects of pollution and climate change have disproportionately affected communities of color,” she said. “As we work to reverse climate change, we must all raise our voices together and ensure that the economic opportunities created by the green economy
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