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Vol. 41 No. 13 • The Journal For Community News, Business & The Arts • insightnews.com
The business of giving By Harry Colbert, Jr. Contributing Writer
Krista Carroll with the children at Grace Village orphanage in Titanyen, Haiti.
Jeremy Carroll
In 2009 Jeremy and Krista Carroll were living a pretty good life in New York City with few worries or cares. Sure, there were the daily stresses of most American middle-class existences, but for the most part, the Carrolls were living the good life. Fast forward to today and the Carrolls are still living the good life – though in Minneapolis now – yet according to Jeremy Carroll, not only are they living the good life, they are working to help others to simply be able to live a life at all. In doing so, the Carrolls, along with business partner, Joey Perry, have built a rapidly expanding business based on the principle of giving – giving to the tune of half the company’s net profits. “My family owned a printing company and after 56 years they decided to close the business,”
Creative design and marketing company donates half of net profits to charity
explained Jeremy Carroll. “I loved the way they treated their customers, treated their staff and treated their community, so after they sold it, I was looking for something to replace that, so I decided to take a trip to Haiti. It was there in Haiti that I experienced extreme poverty for the first time.”
Jeremy Carroll said up until that time, he had very little understanding of what it meant to live an impoverished existence. The awakening was shocking. “You can see pictures of poverty and you can mentally
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I wanted to give those kids the opportunity that my kids have –Jeremy Carroll
Insensitive remarks on a Minneapolis police officer’s Facebook page spark outrage; open internal investigation By Harry Colbert, Jr. Contributing Writer W While Alicia Lucio was perusing hher Facebook timeline one post stopped her in her tracks. st The post was from one of her then Facebook friends, whose th sscreen name is Joseph Klimax. Lucio knows Joseph Klimax by L hhis real name, Joseph Klimmek. Klimmek is a veteran police K oofficer with the 1st District of the Minneapolis Police Department. M The T post was to a link of a Fox 9 story on a murder in south Minneapolis. Klimmek weighed M in with by posting, “3(sic) murders in 3(sic) days and it’s m not n even warm yet.” But it was the th sentence that followed that sparked Lucio’s outrage. sp “This could be a busy year finally,” is what followed y Klimmek’s words about three K Minneapolis killings within M three th days. Lucio said she was stunned by b what she read and even more stunned when other presumed st Minneapolis police officers M chimed in seemingly hoping for c a “busy” year. “I wanted to point out the fact f that the police were literally looking forward to a busy year,” l said Lucio. “They verified s through conversation that they t were looking forward to having w something to do. My point was s to t bring this to light.”
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Harry Colbert, Jr.
Rep. Keith Ellison talks with students at MCTC about MNsure as MNsure navigators Angela Williams and Marcel Lynn look on.
Ellison visits MCTC to encourage students to get insured By Harry Colbert, Jr. Contributing Writer With the deadline to sign up for heath insurance without penalty
fast approaching, Rep. Keith Ellison was on hand at Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC) to encourage enrollment. Ellison (MN-5) said MCTC was the perfect venue
to enroll individuals, as the student population at the downtown Minneapolis college is disproportionately uninsured or under insured. Along with Ellison, MNsure Navigators
from Minneapolis Urban League, and NorthPoint Health & Wellness, African American Legacy institutions collaborating
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Pepper Miller: African American marketing guru Marketing guru Pepper Miller, president of The Hunter-Miller Group, Chicago, IL addresses the 18th Annual Multicultural Marketing Conference and Awards Luncheon being held 8am – 3pm Wednesday, March 26, at The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis, 410 Oak Grove Street. The conference looks at Asian American, Hispanic
American and African American markets in the United States, inviting businesses to ask themselves whether they are getting a share of these lucrative, expanding markets. Miller’s provocative presentation is entitled “Black (Still) Matters In Marketing. Why Increasing Your Cultural
Pepper Miller
Vicky Wong
Isabel Valdes
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