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Editor's note: This story includes a racial slur.I'm often asked about my favorite stories I've covered as a reporter. That's a hard question to answer after spending 35 years working in journalism, most of them as a local television reporter.Rarely does anyone ask about my hardest moments. That question brings to mind a very vivid memory. In December 2015, I stood in the middle of Plymouth Avenue in north Minneapolis facing the Minneapolis Police Department's 4th Precinct building, watching angry officers and defiant community members clash.Days earlier, police had shot and killed Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old Black man, during a confrontation. Community members wanted answers. Protesters blockaded the entrance to the 4th Precinct and the street outside.In front of me stood armed officers in riot helmets telling the crowd to disperse, and protesters screaming back and holding their ground. I saw the handcuffs come out and arrests happen. Police pulled down a “Black Lives Matter” banner from the building as they cleared out a spreading encampment. I could feel the distrust and rage between the mostly Black residents and mostly white officers.The shooting and its aftermath pushed Minnesota to the center of a painful national debate over police, people of color and deadly force. Months later, the Twin Cities would be torn again by another police shooting of a Black man, Philando Castile. In 2020 came George Floyd, killed by a Minneapolis police officer as he lay handcuffed and face down in the street, pleading that he couldn't breathe.‘You want me to go where? With who?'Nine years after witnessing the battle for the 4th Precinct, I got a message from a manager at MPR News, where I host a morning talk show. The bosses wanted me to travel to Montgomery, Ala., a city at the center of the slave trade and the Civil Rights Movement, with a contingent that included 4th Precinct officers. Reading the message, remembering what I witnessed in 2015 and the department's history of dysfunction and accusations of violence, I thought, “You want me to go where? With who? Why?” Turns out there was a good reason for the ask. Emerging from the killings of Clark and Castile, a small group, the Police and Black Men Project, had formed to talk about the roots of their distrust. They included Minneapolis police officers, Black and white, along with Black community members, leaders of nonprofits, government agencies and private businesses. Some were once incarcerated. All have strong opinions about law enforcement. Group members have met regularly the past eight years.They went to Montgomery in 2023 to tour museums and historical sites. They wanted to do something bigger in 2024, to go back to Alabama with a larger group and wider audience. They called MPR News.Nine years after Jamar Clark's killing, I was called again to witness police and Black men but in a very different way.We were invited to go along in December and record the group's private discussions as they processed what they had seen and heard at each of the tour stops. Our team included editor and producer Stephen Smith and freelance photographer Desmon Williams, who goes by “Dolo.”In their conversations, this group explored a significant part of American history, one many people still struggle to discuss and understand or even acknowledge.400 years of racial terror: Inside The Legacy MuseumWe arrived in Montgomery on a Tuesday afternoon after flying from Minneapolis to Atlanta and then renting SUVs for the two-hour drive. The weather was terrible. Torrential rain and dangerous driving conditions. I wondered if it was some sort of sign of what's to come. We gathered with the group — all men — for dinner, the first of many meals these men would share. I discovered some of them have known each other for years and others are still getting to know each other.  The next morning, the officers and community members filed out of a hotel in downtown Montgomery, all dressed the same — hooded sweatshirts with artwork on the back and the words “Black Men and Police Project” and “Peace” and “Alabama 2024.” On the back, there's an image of a handshake between a black and a white hand with the downtown Minneapolis skyline in the background.The design was created by teenagers in a life-skills mentoring program run by group member Jamil Jackson. It's called Change Equals Opportunity. Jackson is also head basketball coach at Minneapolis Camden High School and one of the founders of Freedom Fighters, which focuses on public safety.Throughout the next few days these sweatshirts would turn heads. Passersby would ask them questions about the Police and Black Men Project as the group walked down the street and waited in lines at restaurants and museums.On this day, our first stop is The Legacy Museum. This is a place to learn about 400 years of American history involving slavery, racial terrorism, legalized segregation and mass incarceration in a way that pulls you into the past. The museum sits on the site of a cotton warehouse where enslaved Black people were forced to work when the cotton economy drove American slavery. I can't bring my microphone in for what seems to me an excellent reason — to respect the solemnity of a museum dedicated to the memory of a national atrocity.Organized evilMoments after stepping into the first area of the exhibit space, you find yourself in darkness, standing in what looks, feels and sounds like the bottom of the ocean. You're introduced to the terrifying expanse of the Atlantic Ocean that more than 13 million Africans were forced to cross in slave ships. Nearly 2 million of them died in this Middle Passage.You're surrounded by underwater sculptures of human bodies, looking at what appears to be the heads, shoulders and arms of enslaved Africans who died after being chained together and then forced onto ships during the transatlantic slave trade. Many of them died from illnesses on the ships due to the horrific conditions. Their bodies were thrown in the ocean. The facial expressions portray horror and despair. As you look at them or try not to, you're hearing the sounds of waves.Later in the day in small group discussions, I listened to the officers and community members discuss what it was like to walk through this display. Several described the experience of feeling shook to the core as they took in this particular scene at the start of the tour. George Warzinik, a sergeant in the Minneapolis 4th Precinct, said later he was shocked by the organized evil of lynching.“My image was always this mob stormed the police station or something, the officers are overwhelmed or whatever, looked away. But there was a headline that said there's a lynching scheduled for tomorrow at 5 o'clock. This is cold calculated. This is, it's booked, it's scheduled, and the governor said he couldn't do anything about it. The governor!” said Warzinik.“We're not talking about the local police guy down there with two, two deputies who's overwhelmed. So, the kind of organizational part of it, you know, that's just really struck me.”As we continue to walk through the exhibit spaces, we move into a section about mass incarceration. You can sit down on a stool and pick up a phone and watch a video that depicts a prisoner welcoming your visit. Each person tells you about the conditions inside the prison and declares their innocence in a crime that landed them behind bars. These are stories told by real incarcerated people.It was after sitting through these video testimonials that I needed a break and went and sat in the women's restroom for a few minutes.‘Not a glimmer of hope'Later in the museum cafeteria filled with students, we met for lunch over delicious soul food to talk about what we've seen. Moving into small groups in a private room, I heard the men share their thoughts about what they'd seen.Like Warzinik, group leader Bill Doherty was struck by the banal efficiency of enslaving and terrorizing people. A retired University of Minnesota professor, his family foundation helped pay for the trip in 2024.“One of the things I got this time is that it takes organization and big systems to do this kind of evil. It's not just in the hearts of individuals,” he said. “I never knew how much the banking system was involved in, in slavery and the slave trade, but slaves were collateral for loans. So the banks were supporting the system by saying, ‘Yeah, you got 12 slaves. I'll lend you this money.' Oh my goodness,” he said.Sherman Patterson, vice president of a Minneapolis nonprofit called Lights On!, noted a quote on the wall about the loss of hope: “I was taught that there was hope after the grave. I lost all hope after I was sold to the South.”“Just think about that, what that's saying,” said Patterson. “That's just, not a glimmer of hope. That's just pure hell. And then the woman who was raped several times and had the kid by her master and she defended herself and killed him and then the justice system said you have no right to defend yourself,” said Patterson, one of the elders in this group.“I grew up in Savannah, Georgia,” he added. “I grew up in true segregation as a kid up until 1975 and saw those things. My grandmother was born in 1919 and sitting on a porch watching her be calling the nigger and all of this here. We could not go downtown in certain places because we were taught you can't, you better not, and this is what you do. So there is anger, but being with this group, this is why we're here. There's hope. There is hope and we're moving forward.”We stop next at the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. It's a 17-acre site overlooking the Alabama River and the city of Montgomery. On this river, tens of thousands of enslaved people were transported in chains to the slave market. Many, many thousands toiled in fields and factories up and down the Alabama River. And Montgomery was one of the largest slave-trading centers in the United States.‘One heart, and it bleeds the same color'On Day 2, we went to First Baptist Church on the edge of downtown Montgomery. It's a handsome red brick building with a bell tower and a large, round stained glass window. First Baptist was founded in 1867. It is one of the first Black churches in the Montgomery area and became one of the largest Black churches in the South. It played a huge role in the Civil Rights Movement. The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, a close friend and associate of Martin Luther King Jr., was pastor.In the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and 1956, First Baptist was a community organizing center. During the Freedom Rides of 1961, this church was besieged for a time by a huge white mob threatening to burn it down.I'd been looking forward to this visit. I grew up in Black Baptist churches in rural communities in southern Virginia. My grandparents raised me, and my grandfather was the pastor of several churches when I was a child. We were greeted in the parking lot by an older Black man, Deacon Emeritus Howard Davis, who reminded me of my grandfather. Davis, 81, was baptized at the church and spent his entire life there as an active member and leader. He greeted each of the men in the group with a smile and a handshake. He shared a bit of the history of the church and the role the building and the people who sat inside it played during the Civil Rights Movement.He described how his family taught him to stay away from white people, particularly white women and girls, and how to this day white women make him nervous. He understands the flip side of that and how white children were told to stay away from Black people and fear them, and how that affects how many of them view Black people today.He also spoke of the modern day challenges that Black people face. He took questions from men in the group and didn't hesitate to shake his head at times and admit he didn't have the answer. At one point one of the group members asked him to pray for them, and he did.Our next stop was Montgomery's former Greyhound Bus Station, now the Freedom Rides Museum. In 1961, teams of volunteers from the North and South challenged the Jim Crow practice of racially-segregated travel on buses and trains in the South. The Freedom Riders were mostly young people, Black and white. They were arrested for violating state and local segregation laws by riding together and ignoring the segregated seating. Local police in many southern towns let the Ku Klux Klan and other mobs attack them.Here, I recorded audio of an interview with community member Brantley Johnson. He reflected on what he saw and how he felt about going on this trip. Johnson said he ran with a gang in Minneapolis and ended up in prison. “When I got out, I promised my kids that I would never leave them again.” He's been part of regular meetings around the 4th Precinct and has been trying to work on ways to build trust between police officers and residents.“We have to meet them at their hardest moments, just like they have to meet us at our hardest moments,” he said of the police. “Because at the end of the day, we all have one heart, and it bleeds the same color, no matter what.”Later, we head to the Rosa Parks Museum on the campus of Troy University. Parks played a pivotal role in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. She refused to give up her seat in the so-called “colored section” so that a white woman could have it. Parks was arrested for violating the local bus segregation law. In response, Montgomery's Black community boycotted the bus system for more than a year. The protest brought King, then a local pastor, to national prominence and led eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court declaring bus segregation unconstitutional.Our last two stops on this trip are a walking tour of downtown Montgomery and then the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. It's a profoundly moving 6-acre site in downtown Montgomery. Out of respect for the solemnity of this space, we've been asked not to record audio during the visit. The group splits into smaller groups and scatters in different directions. I follow a group up a hill to what's known as the lynching memorial. I've been there before. A year ago while attending a conference in Birmingham, my husband and I drove to Montgomery to visit The Legacy Museum and the memorial.  I found a monument with the name of a city very close to where I grew up, Danville, Va. The first name on the monument was of a man whose last name was Davis and I took a picture of it. Edward Davis, 11.03.1883. That's when he was lynched. I wonder if we're related.Courage to say ‘No'We return to Minneapolis, where the temperature is in single digits, a little colder than the 50s in Alabama.Not only is the weather different, the men appear different than they were when we gathered at the gate to board our flight days earlier.  That morning they were relaxed, even joking around with one another. Now the mood is more somber and the facial expressions appear to be more reflective. I sense a new confidence in them. To me they look like they are ready to approach future interactions with more knowledge and understanding, more empathy.At different points of the trip, many of the men said they were surprised by how much of the history of this country is not taught in schools. Some seemed troubled by how much they didn't know.The group disperses at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. I can tell everyone's eager to go home. I know I am. I want to be alone with my thoughts and there's a lot to think about.Like, how does one person change things? How does a small group bring change to a whole police department? How does a small group of community members bring change to a whole city?When I get home, I immediately start to unpack. Most of my souvenirs are clothes, including the navy blue T-shirt I bought at the Rosa Parks Museum. It has a small drawing of her face on the right sleeve and on the front there's one word followed by a period.It simply says “No.”Rosa Parks became famous for the moment in time when she'd had enough of racial segregation, injustice and violence. She said no. When I saw that shirt hanging on a wall in the museum gift shop I screamed “Yes!” I searched for my size and bought it.Back at home in St. Paul, I'm wondering why that shirt speaks to my heart in such a profound way? I think it's because it represents a response from a Black woman living at a time when America was at a breaking point. Much like I feel we are today. And the answer to the problem on that day on the bus for Rosa Parks, was a bold refusal to continue on the same path.It takes courage to say no when it's easier and safer to say yes.What I saw in each of the men I spent four days with in Montgomery was a bold refusal to continue on the same path.  Angela Davis' behind-the-scenes photos from Alabama Each brought curiosity to every site we visited. Each brought an understanding they have a lot to learn. Each sought a way to take something they learned in Montgomery back to Minneapolis and put it to work, taking law enforcement and community relations in a different direction.History has shown us where racial segregation and abuse of power lead. My question is this: What will you say when presented with circumstances that don't feel fair and equitable? What will you do when you are encouraged to go along to get along, even if those actions reinforce racism and division? Will you say “No”?Angela Davis hosts MPR News with Angela Davis, a weekday talk show that airs at 9 a.m. She's been a journalist for more than 30 years in the Twin Cities and across the country.

In our utmost solidarity, The Red Nation has remained diligent in responding and taking action in the movements toward Palestinian liberation. The Red Nation was joined by: Anthony from MN Anti-War Committee, Rachel Dionne-Thunder with Indigenous Protector Movement, Nicole Mason with Camp Nenookassi, Sana Wazwaz with American Muslims for Palestine, Jae Yates with Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar Clark, and David Gilbert Pederson with MN Workers United & Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Hosted at the New City Center for Healing Justice in Minneapolis. Watch the video edition on The Red Nation Podcast YouTube channel Date of recording: Sunday, December 3rd. Are you Indigenous? Do you support Palestine? Learn more about joining the Indigenous solidarity with Palestine movement and sign the letter here: https://indigenousforpalestine.org/ Support www.patreon.com/redmediapr

Join host Dr. Sylvia in a captivating conversation with Leslie Redmond, a Social Impact Coach and Leadership Development Consultant. Leslie's journey, molded by her family's struggles and rich history, has deeply shaped her passion for social impact and advocacy. As a younger millennial born in the 90s, she witnessed the impact of mass incarceration and substance abuse, driving her unwavering commitment to fighting for justice.   From being a student body president and meeting President Barack Obama to serving as Vice President of the NAACP, Leslie's fearless leadership knows no bounds. Her experiences during the 18-day occupation at the Fourth Precinct after Jamar Clark's death and her arrest during a peaceful nonviolent protest seeking justice for the murder of Breonna Taylor solidified her mission to create real, attainable access for her community.   Throughout this interview, Leslie shares insightful perspectives on generational differences and the progressive momentum built upon the work of previous generations. Her unexpected journey to Minnesota and unwavering audacity of hope reflect the power of following one's path and purpose. Her story is a testament to the drive, passion, and determination that fuel her commitment to creating a more just and equitable world.   Download and listen to "Trailblazing Perspectives: A Conversation with Leslie Redmond." to gain a deeper understanding of the transformative force behind Leslie's dedication and her unwavering pursuit of a better future for all.

If you played high school sports growing up, you know how being a student-athlete can change your life. It teaches you teamwork, responsibility, perseverance and so much more. MPR News host Angela Davis talked earlier this year with longtime high school boys basketball coach Larry McKenzie. He was the first coach in Minnesota history to win four consecutive basketball state titles. “The reason that I won was because I gave my kids unconditional love,” he told Davis. McKenzie retired in 2022, but he is still mentoring. Now, instead of leading high school athletes, he is coaching other coaches.Listen to the rebroadcast to hear MPR News host Angela Davis talk with McKenzie about what makes a great coach, teaching young people to lose with grace, why the team is more important than the individual and how he supported his students after George Floyd's murder and through the pandemic.Guest: Larry McKenzie is a longtime high school boys' basketball coach. He retired in 2022 from coaching at Minneapolis North High School.Here are five key moments from the conversation.The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.You are now coaching other coaches. Why did you want to do that?Larry McKenzie: One of the things about being one of the elder coaches in the game is getting a lot of calls from young coaches. I've always understood the importance of having good mentors, and the importance of mentorship. When I was 14 years old, my grandmother gave me a book by Napoleon Hill, and it compared having knowledge and not sharing it to having an atomic bomb and never dropping it. For me, after 42 years and the various experiences that I've had and the success, I didn't want to keep that to myself, I wanted to share.Right now, we probably have about 10 or 12 coaches that we're talking to on a weekly basis, sharing information, being there to do some one-on-ones, visiting practices, and helping them become better coaches.One of the things I tell them all the time is that it's really critical that they get to know their kid and to spend at least thirty seconds to a minute with every single kid and ask: How is your day? What's going on in school? What's going on with you and your girlfriend? I think that that's a critical part of one being successful because you got to know them beyond the court or the track or the football field.What makes a great high school coach?Larry McKenzie: First of all, one of those quotes that I like to use is: “a coach can impact more lives in a year than most people can in a lifetime.” I think a great coach is a great teacher. It's not about the Xs and Os — it's an opportunity to change lives.In my journey, it was like being an artist: I get a lump of clay that's a 14-year-old boy that I get to mold for three or four years, and leave me as an 18-year-old young man. I think a good coach is someone that's not so caught up in what the record is but understands that whatever sport they're coaching is an opportunity to have a captured audience to change lives.In my experience, probably 80 percent of the young men that I coached didn't have a father in their houses. So my responsibility, first and foremost, was to teach them how to be a man, to help them understand what was ahead of them. So I knew all the time, they would be watching me, what I did and how I showed up. It's important to lead by example, but it's also important to teach that nobody's perfect, we're gonna all make mistakes. When kids get off track, it's not throwing in the towel, but helping them work through those situations. Coaches, particularly at the high school level, want to help kids go to college, but the most important thing is to prepare them to become productive adults.You were a coach at Minneapolis North in 2020 when police killed George Floyd. How did you talk to your students about that?Larry McKenzie: I'll never forget that morning waking up and seeing that video. The first thing I did with my current players, my former players and my son was to apologize. I need to apologize because I've gotten so busy doing other things that I forgot about this fight. Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, all of those that had gone before George Floyd, this was not the first time.I always try to think outside of the box, and we did something very unique. I called my friends and raised some money, were able to hire a dear friend of mine who was a mental health coach. He would come to practice and be available to our kids, so if they had something going on and needed somebody to talk to, we had a professional there to support them.What concerns you about high school sports these days?Larry McKenzie: Something that really bothers me is how kids have so much to do with social status. When you go to a game, you don't hear parents cheering for the team anymore, everything is about the individual kid. But it is a team sport, right? And you should be really cheering for all kids to be successful.The other thing that concerns me is the passing of “name, image and likeness” at the high school level, which is the ability to pay kids to advertise. Now I got one kid sitting in my locker room, who's got a contract for $5,000 — he's representing the neighborhood barbecue store. And then you got another kid for $1,000. Does that kid making $5,000 expect to play more? Probably in his mind, and in his parents' mind he does.Right now, to my knowledge, I think there's still only one or two high school kids that have taken advantage of it. But I just think long term is going to create an issue in a locker room.How do you teach student-athletes how to lose?Larry McKenzie: You always find life lessons in the loss. Losing is learning. One of the things that I always try to do in losing is taking that opportunity and transfer it into a life experience. In life, everything doesn't go the way that you want it to go, you're gonna have some ups and downs, so you have to learn to stay in the moment, get up, dust yourself off and get going again.One of the things that I particularly used to tell my young men is that there are situations where you will lose, but if you have kids, and you have a house payment and those kinds of things, you don't have a whole lot of time to sit around and feel sorry for yourself. You got to keep it moving.Your stories about coachesListeners called into the show and shared their stories. Here are some of them.Coach leads a new track team to victoryI had a great coach in high school in St. Paul. This was in the ‘70s when there wasn't a women's track team. He was asked, as the football coach, to begin the women's track team. So he would see different young women in school, come up to us and ask us, “Do you want to join the team? I already talked to your friend, she's on the track team.”He used that approach because none of us were really runners and that worked. He joined us together as a team because he believed in us. We didn't have the confidence and we didn't have the skills. The coach put it all together for us and worked with us like the football team. We became very close and won the conference championship the very first year that they had women.— Anita from St. PaulHow a good coach impacts generationsI've been in sports since I was 8 years old and I still remember what my coaches told me and, to this day, it's still beneficial. I called in with two specific examples.I have twin brothers younger than me, we all played baseball during the same period of time, and both our teams won a championship. Their coach drove them incessantly hard, and turns out later he was an alcoholic, but my brothers never loved sports again, until they were parents and gradually got back into it and started to love it again. And they lament how much they wish they would have played their high school years with me.On the other hand, I had a great coach, I had great experiences. I learned how to make it fun. And my joy of sports carried down to my son, who also I think experienced wonderful coaching.— Brent from Eden PrairieMemories from North High SchoolI just wanted to say that I'm a graduate of North High in ‘99. I'm 41 now and the structure that I still hold on to from being on a team with my coaches is just awesome. And I still hold that unity, the hot and cold, until today and I'm just blessed for being on North High's team. Coach Larry, thank you for putting financial teaching out there because we definitely need to figure out how to tap in on the finance part. I experienced getting money and blowing it and not knowing what to do.— Amal from MinneapolisA well-remembered coachI'm a product of Minneapolis Central High School and I was there in the late 50s, early 60s when I graduated. I had a memorable coach, one of the best coaches in the city of Minneapolis, that I've ever known anyway. His name was Earl Bowman. He was one of my mentors, and I coached football in the park system for many years as a result of having experience with him. He was a taskmaster, but he also had real care for the kids and was one of the first Black coaches in Minneapolis.— Louis from MinneapolisSubscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS. 

If you played high school sports growing up, you know how being a student-athlete can change your life. It teaches you teamwork, responsibility, perseverance and so much more. MPR News host Angela Davis talked earlier this year with longtime high school boys basketball coach Larry McKenzie. He was the first coach in Minnesota history to win four consecutive basketball state titles. “The reason that I won was because I gave my kids unconditional love,” he told Davis. McKenzie retired in 2022, but he is still mentoring. Now, instead of leading high school athletes, he is coaching other coaches.Listen to the rebroadcast to hear MPR News host Angela Davis talk with McKenzie about what makes a great coach, teaching young people to lose with grace, why the team is more important than the individual and how he supported his students after George Floyd's murder and through the pandemic.Guest: Larry McKenzie is a longtime high school boys' basketball coach. He retired in 2022 from coaching at Minneapolis North High School.Here are five key moments from the conversation.The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.You are now coaching other coaches. Why did you want to do that?Larry McKenzie: One of the things about being one of the elder coaches in the game is getting a lot of calls from young coaches. I've always understood the importance of having good mentors, and the importance of mentorship. When I was 14 years old, my grandmother gave me a book by Napoleon Hill, and it compared having knowledge and not sharing it to having an atomic bomb and never dropping it. For me, after 42 years and the various experiences that I've had and the success, I didn't want to keep that to myself, I wanted to share.Right now, we probably have about 10 or 12 coaches that we're talking to on a weekly basis, sharing information, being there to do some one-on-ones, visiting practices, and helping them become better coaches.One of the things I tell them all the time is that it's really critical that they get to know their kid and to spend at least thirty seconds to a minute with every single kid and ask: How is your day? What's going on in school? What's going on with you and your girlfriend? I think that that's a critical part of one being successful because you got to know them beyond the court or the track or the football field.What makes a great high school coach?Larry McKenzie: First of all, one of those quotes that I like to use is: “a coach can impact more lives in a year than most people can in a lifetime.” I think a great coach is a great teacher. It's not about the Xs and Os — it's an opportunity to change lives.In my journey, it was like being an artist: I get a lump of clay that's a 14-year-old boy that I get to mold for three or four years, and leave me as an 18-year-old young man. I think a good coach is someone that's not so caught up in what the record is but understands that whatever sport they're coaching is an opportunity to have a captured audience to change lives.In my experience, probably 80 percent of the young men that I coached didn't have a father in their houses. So my responsibility, first and foremost, was to teach them how to be a man, to help them understand what was ahead of them. So I knew all the time, they would be watching me, what I did and how I showed up. It's important to lead by example, but it's also important to teach that nobody's perfect, we're gonna all make mistakes. When kids get off track, it's not throwing in the towel, but helping them work through those situations. Coaches, particularly at the high school level, want to help kids go to college, but the most important thing is to prepare them to become productive adults.You were a coach at Minneapolis North in 2020 when police killed George Floyd. How did you talk to your students about that?Larry McKenzie: I'll never forget that morning waking up and seeing that video. The first thing I did with my current players, my former players and my son was to apologize. I need to apologize because I've gotten so busy doing other things that I forgot about this fight. Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, all of those that had gone before George Floyd, this was not the first time.I always try to think outside of the box, and we did something very unique. I called my friends and raised some money, were able to hire a dear friend of mine who was a mental health coach. He would come to practice and be available to our kids, so if they had something going on and needed somebody to talk to, we had a professional there to support them.What concerns you about high school sports these days?Larry McKenzie: Something that really bothers me is how kids have so much to do with social status. When you go to a game, you don't hear parents cheering for the team anymore, everything is about the individual kid. But it is a team sport, right? And you should be really cheering for all kids to be successful.The other thing that concerns me is the passing of “name, image and likeness” at the high school level, which is the ability to pay kids to advertise. Now I got one kid sitting in my locker room, who's got a contract for $5,000 — he's representing the neighborhood barbecue store. And then you got another kid for $1,000. Does that kid making $5,000 expect to play more? Probably in his mind, and in his parents' mind he does.Right now, to my knowledge, I think there's still only one or two high school kids that have taken advantage of it. But I just think long term is going to create an issue in a locker room.How do you teach student-athletes how to lose?Larry McKenzie: You always find life lessons in the loss. Losing is learning. One of the things that I always try to do in losing is taking that opportunity and transfer it into a life experience. In life, everything doesn't go the way that you want it to go, you're gonna have some ups and downs, so you have to learn to stay in the moment, get up, dust yourself off and get going again.One of the things that I particularly used to tell my young men is that there are situations where you will lose, but if you have kids, and you have a house payment and those kinds of things, you don't have a whole lot of time to sit around and feel sorry for yourself. You got to keep it moving.Your stories about coachesListeners called into the show and shared their stories. Here are some of them.Coach leads a new track team to victoryI had a great coach in high school in St. Paul. This was in the ‘70s when there wasn't a women's track team. He was asked, as the football coach, to begin the women's track team. So he would see different young women in school, come up to us and ask us, “Do you want to join the team? I already talked to your friend, she's on the track team.”He used that approach because none of us were really runners and that worked. He joined us together as a team because he believed in us. We didn't have the confidence and we didn't have the skills. The coach put it all together for us and worked with us like the football team. We became very close and won the conference championship the very first year that they had women.— Anita from St. PaulHow a good coach impacts generationsI've been in sports since I was 8 years old and I still remember what my coaches told me and, to this day, it's still beneficial. I called in with two specific examples.I have twin brothers younger than me, we all played baseball during the same period of time, and both our teams won a championship. Their coach drove them incessantly hard, and turns out later he was an alcoholic, but my brothers never loved sports again, until they were parents and gradually got back into it and started to love it again. And they lament how much they wish they would have played their high school years with me.On the other hand, I had a great coach, I had great experiences. I learned how to make it fun. And my joy of sports carried down to my son, who also I think experienced wonderful coaching.— Brent from Eden PrairieMemories from North High SchoolI just wanted to say that I'm a graduate of North High in ‘99. I'm 41 now and the structure that I still hold on to from being on a team with my coaches is just awesome. And I still hold that unity, the hot and cold, until today and I'm just blessed for being on North High's team. Coach Larry, thank you for putting financial teaching out there because we definitely need to figure out how to tap in on the finance part. I experienced getting money and blowing it and not knowing what to do.— Amal from MinneapolisA well-remembered coachI'm a product of Minneapolis Central High School and I was there in the late 50s, early 60s when I graduated. I had a memorable coach, one of the best coaches in the city of Minneapolis, that I've ever known anyway. His name was Earl Bowman. He was one of my mentors, and I coached football in the park system for many years as a result of having experience with him. He was a taskmaster, but he also had real care for the kids and was one of the first Black coaches in Minneapolis.— Louis from MinneapolisSubscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or RSS. 

If you played high school sports growing up, you know how being a student-athlete can change your life. It teaches you teamwork, responsibility, perseverance and so much more.  MPR News host Angela Davis talked with longtime high school boys basketball coach Larry McKenzie. He was the first coach in Minnesota history to win four consecutive basketball state titles.  “I don't think I was a greatest X and O guy or any of that kind of stuff. The reason that I won was because I gave my kids unconditional love,” he told Davis. He retired in July, but he is still mentoring. Now, instead of leading high school athletes, he is coaching other coaches. Guest: Larry McKenzie is a longtime high school boys' basketball coach. He retired from coaching at Minneapolis North High School in July. Samantha Matsumoto | MPR News MPR News host Angela Davis talks with longtime high school boys basketball coach Larry McKenzie. He was the first coach in Minnesota history to win six basketball state titles.  Here are five key moments from the conversation. The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation. You are now coaching other coaches. Why did you want to do that? Larry McKenzie: One of the things about being one of the elder coaches in the game is getting a lot of calls from young coaches. I've always understood the importance of having good mentors, and the importance of mentorship. When I was 14 years old, my grandmother gave me a book by Napoleon Hill, and it compared having knowledge and not sharing it to having an atomic bomb and never dropping it. For me, after 42 years and the various experiences that I've had and the success, I didn't want to keep that to myself, I wanted to share. Right now, we probably have about 10 or 12 coaches that we're talking to on a weekly basis, sharing information, being there to do some one-on-ones, visiting practices, and helping them become better coaches. One of the things I tell them all the time is that it's really critical that they get to know their kid and to spend at least thirty seconds to a minute with every single kid and ask: How is your day? What's going on in school? What's going on with you and your girlfriend? I think that that's a critical part of one being successful because you got to know them beyond the court or the track or the football field. What makes a great high school coach? Larry McKenzie: First of all, one of those quotes that I like to use is: “a coach can impact more lives in a year than most people can in a lifetime.” I think a great coach is a great teacher. It's not about the Xs and Os — it's an opportunity to change lives. In my journey, it was like being an artist: I get a lump of clay that's a 14-year-old boy that I get to mold for three or four years, and leave me as an 18-year-old young man. I think a good coach is someone that's not so caught up in what the record is but understands that whatever sport they're coaching is an opportunity to have a captured audience to change lives. In my experience, probably 80 percent of the young men that I coached didn't have a father in their houses. So my responsibility, first and foremost, was to teach them how to be a man, to help them understand what was ahead of them. So I knew all the time, they would be watching me, what I did, and how I showed up. It's important to lead by example, but it's also important to teach that nobody's perfect, we're gonna all make mistakes. When kids get off track, it's not throwing in the towel, but helping them work through those situations. Coaches, particularly at the high school level, want to help kids go to college, but the most important thing is to prepare them to become productive adults. You were a coach at Minneapolis North in 2020 when police killed George Floyd. How did you talk to your students about that? Larry McKenzie: I'll never forget that morning waking up and seeing that video. The first thing I did with my current players, my former players, and my son was to apologize. I need to apologize because I've gotten so busy doing other things that I forgot about this fight. Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, all of those that had gone before George Floyd, this was not the first time. I always try to think outside of the box, and we did something very unique. I called my friends and raised some money, were able to hire a dear friend of mine who was a mental health coach. He would come to practice and be available to our kids, so if they had something going on and needed somebody to talk to, we had a professional there to support them. What concerns you about high school sports these days? Larry McKenzie: Something that really bothers me is how kids have so much to do with social status. When you go to a game, you don't hear parents cheering for the team anymore, everything is about the individual kid. But it is a team sport, right? And you should be really cheering for all kids to be successful. The other thing that concerns me is the passing of “name, image and likeness” at the high school level, which is the ability to pay kids to advertise. Now I got one kid sitting in my locker room, who's got a contract for $5,000, he's representing the neighborhood barbecue store. And then you got another kid for $1,000. Does that kid making $5,000 expect to play more? Probably in his mind, and in his parents' mind he does. Right now, to my knowledge, I think there's still only one or two high school kids that have taken advantage of it. But I just think long term is going to create an issue in a locker room. How do you teach student-athletes how to lose? Larry McKenzie: You always find life lessons in the loss. Losing is learning. One of the things that I always try to do in losing is taking that opportunity and transfer it into a life experience. In life, everything doesn't go the way that you want it to go, you're gonna have some ups and downs, so you have to learn to stay in the moment, get up, dust yourself off and get going again. One of the things that I particularly used to tell my young men is that there are situations where you will lose, but if you have kids, and you have a house payment and those kinds of things, you don't have a whole lot of time to sit around and feel sorry for yourself. You got to keep it moving. Your stories about coaches Listeners called into the show and shared their stories. Here are some of them. Coach leads a new track team to victory I had a great coach in high school in St. Paul. This was in the ‘70s when there wasn't a women's track team. He was asked, as the football coach, to begin the women's track team. So he would see different young women in school, come up to us and ask us, “Do you want to join the team? I already talked to your friend, she's on the track team.” He used that approach because none of us were really runners and that worked. He joined us together as a team because he believed in us. We didn't have the confidence and we didn't have the skills. The coach put it all together for us and worked with us like the football team. We became very close and won the conference championship the very first year that they had women. — Anita from St. Paul How a good coach impacts generations [[Coach Larry, thank you so much for all you do. I've never met you but I can guarantee you that you've influenced many kids for the rest of their lives.]] I've been in sports since I was 8 years old and I still remember what my coaches told me and, to this day, it's still beneficial. I called in with two specific examples. I have twin brothers younger than me, we all played baseball during the same period of time, and both our teams won a championship. Their coach drove them incessantly hard, and turns out later he was an alcoholic, but my brothers never loved sports again, until they were parents and gradually got back into it and started to love it again. And they lament how much they wish they would have played their high school years with me. On the other hand, I had a great coach, I had great experiences. I learned how to make it fun. And my joy of sports carried down to my son, who also I think experienced wonderful coaching. [[So again, thank you, coach, Larry.]] — Brent from Eden Prairie Memories from North High School I just wanted to say that I'm a graduate of North High in ‘99. I'm 41 now and the structure that I still hold on to from being on a team with my coaches is just awesome. And I still hold that unity, the hot and cold, until today and I'm just blessed for being on North High's team. Coach Larry, thank you for putting financial teaching out there because we definitely need to figure out how to tap in on the finance part. I experienced getting money and blowing it and not knowing what to do. — Amal from Minneapolis A well-remembered coach I'm a product of Minneapolis Central High School and I was there in the late 50s, early 60s when I graduated. I had a memorable coach, one of the best coaches in the city of Minneapolis, that I've ever known anyway. His name was Earl Bowman. He was one of my mentors, and I coached football in the park system for many years as a result of having experience with him. He was a taskmaster, but he also had real care for the kids and was one of the first Black coaches in Minneapolis. — Louis from Minneapolis TikTok: Major keys from a basquetball coach legend

If you played high school sports growing up, you know how being a student-athlete can change your life. It teaches you teamwork, responsibility, perseverance and so much more. MPR News host Angela Davis talked with longtime high school boys basketball coach Larry McKenzie. He was the first coach in Minnesota history to win four consecutive basketball state titles. “I don't think I was a greatest X and O guy or any of that kind of stuff. The reason that I won was because I gave my kids unconditional love,” he told Davis. He retired in July, but he is still mentoring. Now, instead of leading high school athletes, he is coaching other coaches. Guest: Larry McKenzie is a longtime high school boys' basketball coach. He retired from coaching at Minneapolis North High School in July.Here are five key moments from the conversation.The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity. Click the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.You are now coaching other coaches. Why did you want to do that?Larry McKenzie: One of the things about being one of the elder coaches in the game is getting a lot of calls from young coaches. I've always understood the importance of having good mentors, and the importance of mentorship. When I was 14 years old, my grandmother gave me a book by Napoleon Hill, and it compared having knowledge and not sharing it to having an atomic bomb and never dropping it. For me, after 42 years and the various experiences that I've had and the success, I didn't want to keep that to myself, I wanted to share. Right now, we probably have about 10 or 12 coaches that we're talking to on a weekly basis, sharing information, being there to do some one-on-ones, visiting practices, and helping them become better coaches. One of the things I tell them all the time is that it's really critical that they get to know their kid and to spend at least thirty seconds to a minute with every single kid and ask: How is your day? What's going on in school? What's going on with you and your girlfriend? I think that that's a critical part of one being successful because you got to know them beyond the court or the track or the football field.What makes a great high school coach?Larry McKenzie: First of all, one of those quotes that I like to use is: “a coach can impact more lives in a year than most people can in a lifetime.” I think a great coach is a great teacher. It's not about the Xs and Os — it's an opportunity to change lives. In my journey, it was like being an artist: I get a lump of clay that's a 14-year-old boy that I get to mold for three or four years, and leave me as an 18-year-old young man. I think a good coach is someone that's not so caught up in what the record is but understands that whatever sport they're coaching is an opportunity to have a captured audience to change lives.In my experience, probably 80 percent of the young men that I coached didn't have a father in their houses. So my responsibility, first and foremost, was to teach them how to be a man, to help them understand what was ahead of them. So I knew all the time, they would be watching me, what I did, and how I showed up. It's important to lead by example, but it's also important to teach that nobody's perfect, we're gonna all make mistakes. When kids get off track, it's not throwing in the towel, but helping them work through those situations. Coaches, particularly at the high school level, want to help kids go to college, but the most important thing is to prepare them to become productive adults.You were a coach at Minneapolis North in 2020 when police killed George Floyd. How did you talk to your students about that?Larry McKenzie: I'll never forget that morning waking up and seeing that video. The first thing I did with my current players, my former players, and my son was to apologize. I need to apologize because I've gotten so busy doing other things that I forgot about this fight. Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, all of those that had gone before George Floyd, this was not the first time. I always try to think outside of the box, and we did something very unique. I called my friends and raised some money, were able to hire a dear friend of mine who was a mental health coach. He would come to practice and be available to our kids, so if they had something going on and needed somebody to talk to, we had a professional there to support them.What concerns you about high school sports these days? Larry McKenzie: Something that really bothers me is how kids have so much to do with social status. When you go to a game, you don't hear parents cheering for the team anymore, everything is about the individual kid. But it is a team sport, right? And you should be really cheering for all kids to be successful. The other thing that concerns me is the passing of “name, image and likeness” at the high school level, which is the ability to pay kids to advertise. Now I got one kid sitting in my locker room, who's got a contract for $5,000, he's representing the neighborhood barbecue store. And then you got another kid for $1,000. Does that kid making $5,000 expect to play more? Probably in his mind, and in his parents' mind he does. Right now, to my knowledge, I think there's still only one or two high school kids that have taken advantage of it. But I just think long term is going to create an issue in a locker room.How do you teach student-athletes how to lose?Larry McKenzie: You always find life lessons in the loss. Losing is learning. One of the things that I always try to do in losing is taking that opportunity and transfer it into a life experience. In life, everything doesn't go the way that you want it to go, you're gonna have some ups and downs, so you have to learn to stay in the moment, get up, dust yourself off and get going again. One of the things that I particularly used to tell my young men is that there are situations where you will lose, but if you have kids, and you have a house payment and those kinds of things, you don't have a whole lot of time to sit around and feel sorry for yourself. You got to keep it moving. Your stories about coachesListeners called into the show and shared their stories. Here are some of them.Coach leads a new track team to victoryI had a great coach in high school in St. Paul. This was in the ‘70s when there wasn't a women's track team. He was asked, as the football coach, to begin the women's track team. So he would see different young women in school, come up to us and ask us, “Do you want to join the team? I already talked to your friend, she's on the track team.” He used that approach because none of us were really runners and that worked. He joined us together as a team because he believed in us. We didn't have the confidence and we didn't have the skills. The coach put it all together for us and worked with us like the football team. We became very close and won the conference championship the very first year that they had women.— Anita from St. PaulHow a good coach impacts generationsI've been in sports since I was 8 years old and I still remember what my coaches told me and, to this day, it's still beneficial. I called in with two specific examples. I have twin brothers younger than me, we all played baseball during the same period of time, and both our teams won a championship. Their coach drove them incessantly hard, and turns out later he was an alcoholic, but my brothers never loved sports again, until they were parents and gradually got back into it and started to love it again. And they lament how much they wish they would have played their high school years with me. On the other hand, I had a great coach, I had great experiences. I learned how to make it fun. And my joy of sports carried down to my son, who also I think experienced wonderful coaching.— Brent from Eden PrairieMemories from North High SchoolI just wanted to say that I'm a graduate of North High in ‘99. I'm 41 now and the structure that I still hold on to from being on a team with my coaches is just awesome. And I still hold that unity, the hot and cold, until today and I'm just blessed for being on North High's team. Coach Larry, thank you for putting financial teaching out there because we definitely need to figure out how to tap in on the finance part. I experienced getting money and blowing it and not knowing what to do.— Amal from MinneapolisA well-remembered coach I'm a product of Minneapolis Central High School and I was there in the late 50s, early 60s when I graduated. I had a memorable coach, one of the best coaches in the city of Minneapolis, that I've ever known anyway. His name was Earl Bowman. He was one of my mentors, and I coached football in the park system for many years as a result of having experience with him. He was a taskmaster, but he also had real care for the kids and was one of the first Black coaches in Minneapolis.— Louis from Minneapolis TikTok: Major keys from a basquetball coach legend

Located in the heart of north Minneapolis on West Broadway in the Five Points Building, KMOJ would surprise any bicentennial time travelers who knew it as a barely-there operation spread between two apartments in the Glenwood Projects. It crept onto local airwaves with a budget of less than $50,000. Sometimes records would skip on-air after someone stomped on the floor. Founded in 1976 by the Center for Communications and Development, KMOJ was originally WMOJ because FCC naming conventions assigned W call letters to station transmitters east of the Mississippi River.  Its transmitting power was 10 milliwatts — a range of four to six blocks — and its operating budget came courtesy of grants from the Lutheran Church and state of Minnesota. It became KMOJ in 1978. Today, according to its management, KMOJ is a million-dollar business, which would be an astronomical sum for a community station just starting out 46 years ago. But, it's on the low-end for a contemporary broadcaster.  Regardless of how much money the station has in the bank, the mission remains the same, to: “Teach communities of color media skills that help reinstate the positive affirmative Black image.” KMOJ's morning show co-host, Chantel SinGs, says she knows that the message of positivity is reaching its desired audience. She's reminded daily of the power of a Black-run radio station for a Black community. “I had a caller that called me, crying,” she said. “She was crying and talking about the events that happened in Buffalo, New York, where 10 African Americans were shot and killed by a white supremacist shooter.  “She said that it affected her so badly, she couldn't get through her workday. “She's sitting in her car, crying at 7:30 in the morning. She can't go into her workplace. She's thinking she needs some words of encouragement. Some kind of guidance. And, she calls KMOJ.” General Manager Freddie Bell says he's seen similar displays of connection from listeners.  “If we do the right things. If we focus on the mission — number one, to train broadcasters and number two, to provide for the needs of our listeners — we can't lose,” he said. “And, as best as I can tell, we're doing a wonderful job of staying true to our mission.”  After more than 40 years working at the station, Walter “Q” Bear Banks is a true believer. Banks is the station's afternoon drive time on-air personality. He's a tall, powerfully built man with a smile that rivals the 1,400 watts of the station's transmitter. He possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of the north side, the Minneapolis Sound, Prince and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis and all matters related to KMOJ.  “There's a lot to radio, but even in the processing of everything that's there, you have to have an understanding of self and community when it comes to KMOJ radio,” he said, “because that's what its purpose is about. If you are not looking into the community side, then there's no sense in being there.” Courtesy of Freddie Bell Photos taken over the years of different hosts and guests of KMOJ. Early troubles Motown legend Marvin Gaye had a hit song in 1972 called “Trouble Man” four years before the station was founded. There have been eras in the station's history when it felt like Gaye wrote it with KMOJ in mind.   In 1983, the station's founding management team, General Manager Jeanette Cotton and development officer Brian Allen, were fired by the station's board and barred from entering the building. The pair countersued for wrongful termination.  There have been several instances when staff or taxes weren't paid. The station went silent for a short time in 1988 because of transmitter issues.  In 2016 a group named Concerned Citizens of KMOJ accused the board of putting the station at risk.  Reverend Ewald “Joe” Bash was a liaison for the Lutheran Church's grant, which effectively created the station. In 1978, he told the media that WMOJ and its target audience had their work cut out for them. “Realistically, we're an awfully long way from doing what needs to be done in the Cities,” he said. "How do you undo the damage of whole lifetimes of being put down, of being denied jobs on one hand and being punished for being out of work on the other, of hate, hurt and hostility?” Caroline Yang for MPR News Freddie Bell operates the control panels while hosting KMOJ's The Morning Show on May 27. An act of faith Today, visitors see few signs of those past hardships. They walk into a tasteful suite of offices and studios with muted tan carpets and deep red and blue walls. The effect is professional, soothing. The gold and black KMOJ logo, shaped like the medallion of a 90s era rapper, dominates the main studio and imparts a slight bit of hip hop edginess. Bell, who also serves as Chantel SinGs morning co-host, wants to push the station's financial troubles even deeper into the past.  On a whiteboard in his office, he's written a multi-million-dollar figure in black marker — a year-long stretch goal for his six-person management team.  Behind his desk, an ancient Philco radio, shiny and wooden, shares space with a montage of photos of his daughter who recently graduated from college with a degree in communications. Bell is so immersed in the medium he might as well emit radio waves. He is the latest in a line of roughly a dozen KMOJ station managers, reaching back to co-founder Jeannette Cotton, responsible for leading the station to its current state of relative solvency. Bell knew the station's humble history when he was hired in 2016. Still, he left a well-paying job with a white-owned commercial station when KMOJ's board of directors hit an impasse with its station manager.  Bell's move was an act of faith. He felt indebted to KMOJ because his volunteer service there led to a commercial radio position. He quit his job and came on board as General Manager.  A few of his predecessors worked without pay for stretches of time, just to ensure the station kept going.  The station's financial situation was so tenuous when Bell took over that he kept a resignation letter at the ready, just in case. Caroline Yang for MPR News Chantel SinGs co-hosts KMOJ's The Morning Show with Freddie Bell. A rich tradition KMOJ's financial struggles and deep connection to its audience is part of a rich tradition. Black radio stations girded the success of the Civil Rights Movement. They were the town criers calling listeners to rallies and protests. DJs in Deep South states like Alabama broadcast coded messages to alert their audiences about locations for protests, times and police presence — reminiscent of the old negro spirituals that helped slaves plot their escapes. That's the legacy upheld by KMOJ and a scant 43 other Black-run public radio stations across the U.S.  “It's a market that's hanging on by a string,” says Paul Billings, founder and president of WUVS, 103.7 The Beat, a Black-run public radio station in Muskegon, Michigan.  “[From] the government and on the corporate side, Black radio has always been the stepchild when it comes to advertising and underwriting dollars  … there's never really been a strong advocacy there.” Black radio stations, both commercial and public, are fragile unicorns. Black-owned commercial stations make up a little more than one percent of the nation's 11,000 radio stations. The number of Black-owned stations reached a high of more than 250 stations, thanks to the FCC's Minority Ownership Policy of 1978. However, Clinton era deregulation dropped the number to fewer than 180. Billings says there is little political appetite to level the playing field for Black-run stations, either commercial or public. Advertisers call the shots in the radio business. Their purchases ultimately decide which audiences are worth the billions spent in radio advertising each year. A typical strategy for media buyers, he says, is to assume they can reach enough of the Black audience through ad buys with white-owned media.  Billings says it's a reality Black stations want to change, but accept for the present. It's a matter of survival. Caroline Yang for MPR News Freddie Bell, of Minneapolis, chats with co-host of KMOJ's The Morning Show, Chantel SinGs, during a break. Job one, Bell said, is to bolster the community-focused mission and keep the station alive, no matter the distractions.  “I don't care what organization it is; people all have their own ideas. They have their own ways of life,” he said. “But, making sure the station was financially solvent, that was the Big Lift and continues to be the Big Lift. “I didn't want to be the guy [with] the headline, ‘KMOJ fails because of Freddie Bell.' Nobody wants to see that. Nobody wants that to happen under their watch. I was determined that wasn't going to happen. Continuing the mission Bell says the station's latest, greatest achievement is melded to its mission of training young people of color. The Ice, touted as Minnesota's first urban hip hop station, is broadcast on its KMOJ HD2 channel. It offers young, hip hop DJs a nerve-wracking training ground which includes  tens of thousands of listeners.  “Oh, this is live,” said a staff person when asked if trainees ever made mistakes on the expensive and complex soundboard. “They'll make mistakes, but they won't do it twice.”  Bell is particularly proud of the journalism training a diverse group of young women received under the Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice initiative. The project is a 10-month joint effort of KMOJ, AMPERS and the Minnesota Humanities Center that reached a million listeners. Its five young journalists covered high-profile, breaking news stories such as the trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd.  One of those young reporters, Chioma Uwagwu, shared her thoughts about the project on the station's website. “I never thought there could be journalists that were truly trusted in the community,” she said. “It was always, ‘there's journalists and there's community members.' And, sometimes community members would give their stories, but it always felt very transactional.” Uwagwu considers the project a solid step into a journalistic future that considers communities of color full partners in the news gathering process.  Bell's pride in the project's success may be due in part to the fact that KMOJ had no journalists on staff when he began his tenure.  Unluckily for him, that was a news-heavy 18 months starting in November 2015 when Jamar Clark was shot and killed by a police officer in north Minneapolis. Superstar Prince died suddenly at Paisley Park in April of 2016. Philando Castile was killed by a police officer later that summer sparking protests which made national news.  “All this happens and we didn't have a news department,” he said. “People were calling us, asking for reports. We didn't have a reporter. It was just us. I sent one of my producers, who wasn't a trained journalist, to the scene [of the protests following Clark's death].” Caroline Yang for MPR News A window in the KMOJ lobby. A small miracle That kind of privation is business as usual for Black radio stations, Billings said. Without sufficient funding, the stations have to be creative in most areas, including news gathering.  But, the landscape has changed since 2016 for both Billings' station WUVS and for KMOJ. “It's because of [Bell] and his leadership that we have Black news that's running on not only on our station, but on other stations across the country because he advocated for us to get this Black news for free,” Billings said.   “We have collaborated on talk shows, special editions, documentaries and those have made each one of our [stations] stronger.” KMOJ, with its sprawling, joyous, messy, under-appreciated history is still standing and Billings doesn't mind if you put your hands together for that small miracle.  “I think the community should be grateful that they have a voice, a vehicle that cares about their community that's been independent, not bought-out and has put the citizens, the listeners, first for four-plus decades,” he said.  “They should be happy that this radio station is still there, still dedicated to the same mission that they had when they started off: to empower the Black community of the Twin Cities. That's a strong commitment that KMOJ has given the people of Minneapolis-St. Paul. And, I hope that the people of that community have given KMOJ the same commitment.

This is Andy Luger's first full week on the job as US Attorney for Minnesota, but it's a position he's familiar with. This is the second time Lugar has been the top-ranking federal law enforcement official for Minnesota. He served under former President Barack Obama. A US Attorney, Lugar is responsible for prosecuting federal crimes in the district. He oversaw a number of high profile and controversial cases in his first tenure. His work led to the conviction of nine young East African men for attempting to join ISIS. He made the decision to not to file charges against the Minneapolis police officers who killed Jamar Clark. And he lead the prosecution of the man who killed Jacob Wetterling. U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger joined host Cathy Wurzer for a conversation about his new role.

Critics say during his previous tenure Luger failed to hold police accountable in the deaths of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile, and harmed Muslim community members with the controversial Countering Violent Extremism program.--Feven Gerezgiher reports:At a press conference Tuesday, community activists in Minneapolis denounced the re-appointment of Andrew Luger as U.S. Attorney for Minnesota. The appointment is pending Senate approval.President Biden announced Luger's nomination on Friday upon the recommendation of Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith. In a news release, the senators praised Luger for his work in his previous term as U.S. Attorney, from 2014 to 2017.“Under no condition should this man be reappointed. He's not an unknown quantity to our community. We know about him. We have a history with him,” said former St Paul NAACP president Nathaniel Khaliq. Khaliq said the appointment would harm progress made by community activists since George Floyd's death.“When I think about how hard these folks have worked to get us to this point where we see hope in turning around the various practices and policies of injustice that have been inflicted on our community for years and years. Now, you want to bring Andy Luger on board. He's already tainted the process just because of who he is,” said Khaliq. Earlier this year, a broad coalition of community organizations and over 20 lawmakers signed a letter to the President opposing Luger's appointment. The letter noted that as U.S. Attorney, Luger failed to hold police accountable in the deaths of Jamar Clark and Philando Castile, and harmed Muslim community members with the controversial Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program.Michelle Gross, president of Communities United Against Police Brutality, says she's concerned about the ongoing Department of Justice investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department.“I'm very fearful that Andy Luger sitting in that position of US attorney is going to block that investigation or denature that investigation such that it will be ineffective,” she said.Organizers said the other two finalists for the U.S. Attorney appointment, former assistant federal prosecutors Lola Velazquez-Aguilu and Surya Saxena, were more credible options.

A night out at the bar after work turned into a confrontation. The confrontation turned into a fatal shooting. Listen to the turn of events that ended in Patrick Dorismond's death.  He intervened to protect and remove his girlfriend from a bad situation. His intervention resulted in her broken ankle. Her broken ankle resulted in the arrival of paramedics and police. That arrival resulted in his death. Listen to the tragedy of Jamar Clark's death. Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hudspod)

Feven Gerezgiher reports:This Saturday, the loved ones of Justin Teigan, Courtney Williams, Daunte Wright and others lost to police violence marched across Saint Paul with a message: we have not forgotten.Toshira Garraway lost her fiancé Justin Teigan in 2009 after an encounter with Saint Paul police. Recycling facility workers found Teigan's body in a dumpster the next morning.Thursday marked the 12th anniversary of Teigan's death. In his honor this year, Garraway said she wanted to march for all lost lives. In part, to share her grief around the annual reminder.“We cannot let this momentum die down because they are banking on it,” said Garraway to the gathered crowd. “The momentum has to be just as strong as when they kill somebody months down the line, years down the line.”Garraway started Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence to support others in her position. Now, she says she wants to prevent others from joining their ranks.“Demetrius Hill, Marcus Golden, Cordale Handy, Hardel Sherrell, Paul Castaway, Fong Lee, Kobe Haisler, Philando Castile, Jamar Clark…[they] cannot afford for us to be quiet,” said Garraway. “The momentum has to keep going. They've done enough damage.”The families marched Saturday with over 100 people and a 30+ car caravan from the Saint Paul Police Department in Midway to the state capitol. Garraway says later this month, they are taking their protest to the U.S. capitol.

For the past five years, usually some time in August, members of the Flower Power Collective can be seen hauling buckets of flowers to the Indian Mounds Park in St. Paul. From sunrise to sundown, artists and community members carefully place flower after flower on the grass, working to create a vibrant art piece. Group members say their goal is to provide healing spaces for those who have been impacted by their criminal justice system. Whether they were incarcerated or knew someone who was, community members are encouraged to bring bouquets and share stories. “It just comes together in such a beautiful way. Like, there's just enough structure where we can still flow like water. That's that's the only way I can describe it,” said artist Bella Dawson, who joined the group in high school.Laura LeBlanc, who helped found the Flower Power collective, said it was born during protests after the police shooting of Jamar Clark – particularly because she wasn't there. “And I asked myself why I wasn't at the protests, because I believe in the protest deeply,” said LeBlanc, who formerly worked as an advocate for youth in the criminal justice system. Though she still doesn't have an answer, “what was clear to me was, we needed other spaces besides protests. We needed spaces where we build the world that we want to live in, that we're honoring the tragedy and not ignoring it. So that's what Flower Power is, is honoring the tragedy of that full continuum of the criminal justice complex.”The first flower display LeBlanc remembers doing was at Philando Castile's funeral. LeBlanc said the group started working  at 4:30 in the morning at the cathedral grounds, to avoid getting removed before their piece was finished. But they didn't get kicked out. Now, the group has a regular relationship with Philando's mother Valerie Castile, and creates flower arrangements for the yearly candlelight vigil she hosts for her son.Many of the Flower Power artists bring a passion for advocacy and social justice, said LeBlanc.  And for Dawson, the young artist, Flower Power provides a new kind of way to protest - one that doesn't necessarily mean taking to the streets. “At the end of the day,  if you're not right within here, within your heart, it's like, how are you showing up in the community?” asked Dawson. “We don't want a space like Flower Power to just be on that day. We want to be able to create spaces like this, where people can flow like water, and breathe and love and connect.”Fellow artist and roommate Sabrina Nur said that's exactly what Flower Power was able to do last summer at George Floyd Square: provide a space for people to breathe. “Because people are chanting, “I can't breathe” and like you're putting that into the universe, you know, so it's affecting you. People don't realize the words they say and the actions they do, how that affects you,” Nur said. “So we need spaces like Flower Power where we can breathe, we will breathe, we have the right to breathe.”The Flower Power collective is housed within the nonprofit Oyate Hotanin, which focuses on uplifting American Indian art and activism. The artists gather at the Indian Mounds Park due to their long fight to keep the area preserved and respected as a burial ground, said executive director Strong Buffalo. The grounds were where Dakota people used to bury their dead, along with their belongings. Today, only six of the dozens of the original burial mounds are still standing, as the others were destroyed by farming, housing and park development. “It was almost like our ancestors were imprisoned, too,” said Strong Buffalo. “Those Indian mounds have been burials for Indian people for probably about 10,000 years and has been inside of this city park in St. Paul for about 160 years without people really realizing that these are the remains of people.”The Flower Power Collective's next event at Mounds Park takes place on August 7 from sunrise to sundown. 

"George Floyd should still be alive! Daunte Wright should still be alive! Jamar Clark should still be alive! Terrence Franklin should still be alive! Philando Castile!..." said Nekima Levy Armstrong, an activist who's been raising her voice since before George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police a year ago today.This year has seen ups and downs - the spark of social change and the deaths of Daunte Wright, Ma'Khia Bryant, and others at the hands of police *in the midst of a pandemic*. As the Twin Cities honors the anniversary of Floyd's murder, many still feel the pain of his passing. Camden Nguyen lives blocks away from 38th & Chicago."Sometimes I've been dreaming about George Floyd and sometimes I pray for him and I pray that his family is safe and not so sad about when he died. And I pray that every black person is safe in their homes," said Nguyen.For police victims' families, the anniversary is an opportunity to come together to push for justice. Ma'Khia Bryant's aunt Myra Duke said she finds this moment helpful."It's been healing. And it's been therapeutic for us because we've been able to meet people that have just welcomed us and encouraged us and let us know that we are not in our fight alone." said Duke.The remembrance events come in the midst of increased violence in the Twin Cities. Minneapolis resident Greg Coleman said all violence needs to be addressed."The loss of life of whether it's from a cop, whether it's from another black man, whether it's from another white man, it's something that takes a toll on you. I mean, we do have all this big celebration, but also last night, 10 people were shot. // The violence that's going on in the city, the violence that's going on overall in America is just ridiculous, whether it comes from the cops, whether it comes from citizens, whether it comes from whatever, we need to figure out something to try to figure out all this anxiety, all this understanding." said Coleman.Remembrance events continue through Tuesday evening at George Floyd Square, but people across the world will always remember what happened there.For the Racial Reckoning Project, I'm Feven Gerezgiher.

Today is an episode dedicated to the lives of Daunte Wright, George Floyd, Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others whose lives and breath were taken away unjustly. I feel lots of feels. What to do but dive into the practice of poetry, of holding the intersecting tensions of it all with the breath of new creation. I share a poem about feelings around checking in with the trial briefly and then share my thoughts about how to continue to dissect the intersecting sicknesses of white supremacy and disconnection from Mother Earth. I talk about watching Downton Abbey and using it as a way to understand more deeply where these twisted energies of supremacy, racial and other kinds of hierarchy have come from and how they are connected to how we show up in our bodies in present times. Tend. Forgive. Have compassion. Accept. Be accountable. Step up again and again to figure out your role in the transformation. You got this love. Ready to be brave yet need accountability and a fiercely loving container while you experiment and align? 1 on 1 Spiritual Life Coaching program with me now open! Apply here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adrienneerophillips/message

Recorded 9pm Mon 4.12.21. Instagram link: details to support Chyna, mother of Daunte Wright Jr. Cashapp: $hubby98 Venmo: Chyna-w-1 Paypal: janeyhill@yahoo.com Chyna's Amazon Wishlist: chyna.whitaker.17@yahoo.com Donate to ongoing needs of Logan Park Sanctuary Residents in Minneapolis, MN Follow @DocumentingMN for Black MN Residents-driven reporting and media Read Unicorn Riot report on housing crisis of Minneapolis park residents UR coverage of recent Near North encampment raids and struggles of camp residents Part 1 of a planned 2-part conversation. Tri and Adnan speak to the murder of 20 year old son, father, and young adult Daunte Wright by firmly reinforcing the platform for why police reform is ruling class re-commodification of safety that sells itself as a universal good, yet persists in protecting only the quality of life of class-ascendant, exceedingly White-bodied peoples. In Minnesota, police reforms only spell the repackaged and prolonged dispossession of life and community-oriented protection and care of low-income, neocolonized peoples like Wright, Dolal Idd, Isak Aden, Fong Lee, Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, George Floyd, to only name a few of many people killed by the foot soldiers of MN state-sanctioned police violence. Adnan is online at @RealBashiMusic A few of many things mentioned: Proud Boys Leader Enriquo Tarrio was an FBI Informant Patrice Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of the national Black Lives Matter organization, buys $1.4+ million house Yahoo News coverage of Khan-Cullors many, many lavish properties Targets long history of funding the MPD (Minneapolis Police Department) Tamir Rice's Mother Criticizes Tamika Mallory After Lil Baby's Grammys Performance "Girl Meets World" cellphone clip of "getting real about Communism in class" segment Email glammump@gmail.com if you want the name of that anti-Left libertard children's cartoon that Tri mentioned and remembered after the podcast. In/outro music sampled from "Stereotype" by Mayda --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/glammump/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/glammump/support

Say his name: Daunte Wright. Now let's pause. This rampant killing and incarceration of black men in Minnesota must stop. The civil unrest is only a grieving response that at times take the form of destruction to release the scars of systemic racism that is very deeply rooted in Minnesota. But there's this persistent strong denial of its existence by those in position to create change, because you refused to hear our cries and screams. Well, I have something to say. And my city is sad and my city is sad those with the badge add to the death toll. Now that's just mad. I said to my city, it's sad. Those with a badge add to the death toll. Now that's just mad. They policing the poor so they don't get ahead. You have to serve and protect. There's no good for the dead. Streets turned memorials and tears over hot lead, but it's more than tragedy from concrete rosebeds. Here, [inaudible] took flight, city wept everyday light, brutal as a bulls fight, senseless beasts ignite.  I said that my city is sad, those with the badge add to the death toll. Now that's just mad. I said that my city is sad. Those with badge and to the death toll. Now that's just mad. There's no answer for the youth that bled or even the fathers in courts that pled. [inaudible] jail got us living on edge. There's no justice, no peace, there only pain instead. And my city is sad. Those with the badge add to the death toll. Now that's just mad. So how did murder become art? Because we all Duante Wright, George Floyd, Eric Garner, Brianna Taylor, Laquan Franklin, Ahmaud Arbery, Alton Sterling, Trayvon Martin, Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, and Mike Brown, like [inaudible] faces on the murals found. I can't breathe, screaming in nightmares, hands up, don't shoot! Another future is gone. Who's holding the goal when justice goes wrong?  I said that my city is sad. Those with the badge add to the death toll. Now that's just mad. Get a taste for my city, life off a bit on sweet, statue by a spoon with a cherry that no one can ever eat. Fresh cherry red torn off of spoon at a dorm, death on t-shirts warm, leaving love wants to mourn. Can we live and breathe? Let our babies teethe. Can we live and breathe? Let our babies teethe. I said that my city is sad. Those with the badge add to the death toll. Now that's just mad. These commentaries are recorded by Prison Radio.

It has been said that bias is a natural human instinct to categorize observations in your daily life and attract you to things that you are familiar with. When you are a journalist, you have to put all that aside and run full force into your biases to confront them In this episode, Kyndell Harkness joins Sophie and Sarah to discuss the role that bias plays in our work unintentionally, ways to confront your own biases, and reveals the grueling work that was required to report on the killings of George Floyd, Philando Castille, and Jamar Clark in Minneapolis. Not every story is as simple as it seems. Let's challenge ourselves to think a little deeper. Kyndell Harkness is the current Diversity and Community Editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and has also been a photo editor and photographer there for ~20 years. Instagram: @kynhark Twitter: @kyndellharkness ---------------------- Stop Talking: The Podcast is a weekly podcast hosted by Sarah Thamer and Sophie Hoover, two women who ended up in opposite media careers (one TV reporter and one creative video editor). Each week they discuss the barriers that women face in media and other high-visibility work environments and teach each other new skills and strategies for supporting themselves and the women around them. From mental health to empowering guest stories, nothing is off the table. ---------------------- Want to be on the podcast or let us know what you think? DM us @StopTalkingPod on Instagram or visit our website at StopTalkingPod.com Sarah Thamer: @sarahthamernews Sophie Hoover: @soph_hoov Podcast Artwork: Sara Lucciano (@cut.and.paste) Music: "Mr. Mischief" by All Good Folks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/stoptalkingpod/message

Community members marched in downtown Minneapolis over the weekend, calling for justice for George Floyd.Protestors pointed out there is a long history of police brutality against Black people in Minnesota... including Jamar Clark in 20-15 and Philando Castile in 20-17. Castile's death was captured on video by his girlfriend, who live-streamed the incident. Yet, says Saint Paul School Board Member Chauntyll Allen, the officer involved was acquitted.“With the Philando Castile case, we watched that brother get murdered. We watched the trial. We were hopeful when we saw that there were jurors of color. We thought that we could possibly get some justice... and still, there was no justice.” The difference with George Floyd's death is that the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin is being live-streamed, for anyone to view in real-time. This is the first time that's ever happened in Minnesota.“We need this system to know that we're watching,” said Allen. “It's not just the Twin Cities, it's not just the state of Minnesota. It's not just the United States of America, but the whole entire world is watching this case.”Tahlia Root, a student at the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, says watching jury selection made her question the judicial process and its fairness.“I watched it and it's crazy because they're trying to be impartial and I am just battling internally with ‘what is impartiality?' Are you actually being impartial or are you just being complacent with the situation? And how do we seek justice while also being impartial?”Derek Chauvin's murder trial resumes Monday morning when attorneys will give their opening statements. Samantha HoangLong reporting for the Racial Reckoning project

We take the first 10 minutes of today's episode to give an update on the Upper Harbor Terminal re-development struggle, then we dive into a wide ranging interview with Niko Georgiades of the incredible independent media collective Unicorn Riot. Niko reflects on 5 years of movement reporting since the 2015 occupation of the 4th precinct in response to the MPD murder of Jamar Clark and invites us into Unicorn Riot's investigations into white supremacist organizing in Minnesota and law enforcements efforts to repress resistance to the Embride Line 3 tar sands pipeline project. Check out Unicorn Riot's essential 5 episode series George Floyd Uprising: Reporter Reflections. Episode 3.2 drops tonight!  Produced by Isaac Specktor  Plug In with Unicorn Riot's here  Help us get to 200 Patreon subscribers , we are real close!   

Sunday marks the fifth anniversary of the death of Jamar Clark. On Nov. 15, 2015, the unarmed 24-year-old was shot and killed in a confrontation with two Minneapolis police officers. Host Angela Davis spoke with Clark’s birth mother and a racial justice activist to examine what has changed in the past five years.

Jamar Clark's sister, Tiffany Roberson shares what it was like to gather for holidays and their special love for their favorite dish. CALL TO ACTION: Sign Petition to demand community control of the police - https://sites.google.com/view/tcc4j/home Donate to Families - https://gf.me/u/yk5y4f RESOURCES: ·     Project Jamar Saving Me - https://www.savingme.org/ ·     Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar - www.facebook.com/TCC4J/ ·     Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence - https://www.facebook.com/fsfapv dcpofficial.com/jamar-clark-burns-hill  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jamar's family, along with activists Jess Sundin and Loretta VanPelt speak about Jamar's untimely death, the petition to reopen his case, and how their lawyer prophetically warned Minneapolis in 2019 that if another unarmed Black person was killed by police, the city would explode. CALL TO ACTION: Sign Petition to demand community control of the police - https://sites.google.com/view/tcc4j/home Donate to Families - https://gf.me/u/yk5y4f RESOURCES: ·     Project Jamar Saving Me - https://www.savingme.org/ ·     Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar - www.facebook.com/TCC4J/ ·     Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence - https://www.facebook.com/fsfapv WARNING: CHIME #1 (skip ahead 2 minutes) But nonetheless, what they say is that while he was on the ground, Ringgenberg claims that his gun had shifted on his belt. Shouldn't have been possible, but it did. And it was directly between Jamar and him. It's on his back. And so it's pressed into Jamar and he says, he's trying to keep his hand on the gun and hold it in. He says he can feel Jamar's hand around the gun. And he started screaming to Schwarze immediately, “He's got my gun, shoot him.” Immediately and Schwarze just starts panicking and he yells at him, “Let him go. Or I'll fire on you. Let him go” Yeah. A few times. And continually, while this is going on, Ringgenberg is, telling him to shoot Jamar. Ultimately he puts his gun to his head and he says, “I'm going to fire.” And he claims, Schwarze he claims that Jamar said, “I'm not afraid to die” It seems unusual. This is the very first words that Jamar has said to either officer at all. It's just an unusual first statement to make. But Schwarze, he says, “that's what he said.” And there's no one to say it wasn't. Schwarze he presses his gun against his head. You're not supposed to do that. He was excited. And under stress. That puts the gun out of chamber. If somebody has an automatic weapon pointed, it's semiautomatic, you can press on the barrel and it's called putting the weapon out of chamber and it won't fire. So he pulls it and he can't do it. So, he had to pull back. He tells Ringgenberg, “Give me a second.” And he cocks the slide to reengage the weapon. And he puts it back to his head. He says, “I'm going to fire” This time he's warning Ringgenberg. And he fires. And then at that point, they get out from under him. The press made a big deal of the fact that they found Jamar's DNA on the weapon. And that's pretty stupid. I mean, he was shot with an explosive weapon at point blank range. His DNA is on everything within a 20-foot radius. CHIME #2 (skip ahead 30 seconds) There was a young man, a 10-year-old little boy that witnessed Jamar being killed, saw the shooting. He even described the smoke that came from Jamar's face after being killed. Usually he'll come to the tree for the anniversary and birthday. Last year, he didn't, so I believe his mom moved. But he makes it his business to come and give us a hug and just be there, I think about him a lot. NAMES OF THE FALLEN: - Philando Castile - George Floyd - Justine Dammond - Chiasher Fong Vue - Justin Teigen - Rodney King - Trey Davis - Trayvon Martin - Marcus Golden - Michael Kirvelay - Sharice Burns and her baby boy - Jamar Burns-Hill dcpofficial.com/jamar-clark-burns-hill CREDITS: Host: Adell Coleman & Chris Colbert Executive Producers: Adell Coleman & Chris Colbert Edited & Sound Design: Byron Hunt Producers: Jacqueline Garofano and Ryan Woodhall Associate Producers: Maria Beckett & Quinton Hill Content Distribution: DCP Entertainment  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jamar (Clark) Burns-Hill was killed by police in Minneapolis, MN on November 15, 2015. At the age of 24, witnesses said Jamar was complying with officers before he was thrown to the ground and killed. Jamar's mother Irma Burns and sister Tiffany Roberson give an exclusive recount on who he was before that tragic day. CALL TO ACTION: Sign Petition to demand community control of the police - https://sites.google.com/view/tcc4j/home Donate to Families - https://gf.me/u/yk5y4f RESOURCES: ·     Project Jamar Saving Me - https://www.savingme.org/ ·     Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar - www.facebook.com/TCC4J/ ·     Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence - https://www.facebook.com/fsfapv WARNING: CHIME #1 (skip ahead 48 seconds) When he saw that she was going out into the ambulance, the police that responded to the domestic call approached Jamar, within 61 seconds, I believe, after stepping out of their car, and having interaction with Jamar, he was killed. They walked up to him, they put him in this choke hold, slammed him on the ground, and shot him in the face. CHIME #2 (skip ahead 1 minute 40 seconds) When my mom got there, they still wouldn't tell us where he was. I was getting ready to go up under the tape and he stopped me. I'm like, “I'm looking for my son, his name's Jamar. They say he just got shot. Where is he? Where is he? Where is he. And the police say, “I can't tell you that.” By this time there's a lot of people out there. (SOUNDS FROM THE SCENE) And she pled, my mom was near getting on her knees to ask them, "Please, tell me where my son is. Please. Why won't you?" "What do you mean?" I'm like, "That's my baby. What are you talking about? My son, he's just been shot. You got to tell me." And everybody now is getting ready to riot now. (SOUNDS FROM THE SCENE) dcpofficial.com/jamar-clark-burns-hill CREDITS: Host: Adell Coleman & Chris Colbert Executive Producers: Adell Coleman & Chris Colbert Edited & Sound Design: Byron Hunt Producers: Jacqueline Garofano and Ryan Woodhall Associate Producers: Maria Beckett & Quinton Hill Content Distribution: DCP Entertainment  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Have you heard the names, Jamar Clark, Robbie Tolan, or Danny Ray Thomas? Probably not! Chris Colbert, CEO of DCP Entertainment, a media production and distribution company curating pivotal conversations and a platform for underrepresented voices, including people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and other overlooked communities, today wanted to change that with the launch of Say Their Name, a podcast series that will highlight and memorialize the stories of 7 Black individuals who were unarmed when they were assaulted or killed by police or in stand your ground states.

What does it take to create positive change where you live? How can we heal as individuals and communities after experiencing trauma? Princess Haley has spent her life courageously answering these questions. She's one of the founders of Appetite for Change, an organization in North Minneapolis focused on using food to create health, wealth, and social change. In this truly moving discussion we cover: How food justice and racial justice intersect in 2020. How Appetite for Change responded to the murders of Jamar Clark and George Floyd. How losing her son to gun violence shaped her outlook on healing. What a better way to break out of cycles of violence and trauma looks like. This episode is a timely way for us all to better understand what's happened in 2020 that's also packed with wisdom we can apply to any year in our lives. An Imperfect Note on The Audio: Princess Haley had to change locations part way through recording due to technical difficulties. You'll notice that her audio changes part way through as a result. Recording podcasts can be imperfect, too, but we hope you still enjoy this episode as much as we did! Episode Show Notes:Learn more about Appetite for Change on their website and Instagram page. AFC has produced several inspiring music videos including Grow Food and Trap or Grow as well as songs like Beautiful Black Queen. Princess Haley recommends reading A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Princess Haley has worked with Reesma Manakem, author of, My Grandmothers Hands to learn how to heal and recover from trauma.

  Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I’m Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Dr. Gerald Horne’s new book explores the roots of white supremacy and capitalism, centuries ago, in colonialism and the slave trade. And, Malcolm X changed the way Black people saw themselves and their place in the world. We’ll discuss a new book on Malcolm, title “Black-Minded.”   But first – a Minneapolis judge is moving towards jury selection in the second degree murder trial of the policeman that killed George Floyd, setting off protests that put tens of millions in the streets. At the height of the turmoil the Minneapolis City council talked about getting rid of their police force in its present form. But Sam Martinez, of the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar Clark, says there’s been no movement towards defunding or abolishing the police, and what’s needed is community control of the cops.   Unprecedented numbers of Americans of all races now claim to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement. But Americans, in general, know very little about the historical development of white supremacy. Dr. Gerald Horne is a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, and author of more than 30 books. His latest volume is titled, “The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century.” If you want to understand why Black Lives don’t matter under the current system, says Dr. Horne, look to the events of five centuries ago.   More than a half century ago, Malcolm X left his indelible mark on the Black American mind. We spoke with Michael Sawyer, a professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies at Colorado College, and author of a new book, titled “Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X.” Dr. Sawyer says Malcolm X shaped the modern era of Black politics – and his own way of looking at the world, as well.

  Welcome to the radio magazine that brings you news, commentary and analysis from a Black Left perspective. I'm Margaret Kimberley, along with my co-host Glen Ford. Coming up: Dr. Gerald Horne's new book explores the roots of white supremacy and capitalism, centuries ago, in colonialism and the slave trade. And, Malcolm X changed the way Black people saw themselves and their place in the world. We'll discuss a new book on Malcolm, title “Black-Minded.”   But first – a Minneapolis judge is moving towards jury selection in the second degree murder trial of the policeman that killed George Floyd, setting off protests that put tens of millions in the streets. At the height of the turmoil the Minneapolis City council talked about getting rid of their police force in its present form. But Sam Martinez, of the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice for Jamar Clark, says there's been no movement towards defunding or abolishing the police, and what's needed is community control of the cops.   Unprecedented numbers of Americans of all races now claim to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement. But Americans, in general, know very little about the historical development of white supremacy. Dr. Gerald Horne is a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, and author of more than 30 books. His latest volume is titled, “The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century.” If you want to understand why Black Lives don't matter under the current system, says Dr. Horne, look to the events of five centuries ago.   More than a half century ago, Malcolm X left his indelible mark on the Black American mind. We spoke with Michael Sawyer, a professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies at Colorado College, and author of a new book, titled “Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X.” Dr. Sawyer says Malcolm X shaped the modern era of Black politics – and his own way of looking at the world, as well.

Black Lives Matter. Say their names. Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Dante Parker, Michelle Cusseaux, Laquan McDonald, George Mann, Tanisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Rumain Brisbon, Jerame Reid, Matthew Ajibade, Frank Smart, Natasha McKenna, Tony Robinson, Anthony Hill, Mya Hall, Phillip White, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, William Chapman II, Alexia Christian, Brendon Glenn, Victor Manuel Larosa, Jonathan Sanders, Freddie Blue, Joseph Mann, Salvado Ellswood, Sandra Bland, Albert Joseph Davis, Darrius Stewart, Billy Ray Davis, Samuel Dubose, Michael Sabbie, Brian Keith Day, Christian Taylor, Troy Robinson, Asshams Pharoah Manley, Felix Kumi, Keith Harrison McLeod, Junior Prosper, Lamontez Jones, Paterson Brown, Dominic Hutchinson, Anthony Ashford, Alonzo Smith, Tyree Crawford, India Kager, La'vante Biggs, Michael Lee Marshall, Jamar Clark, Richard Perkins, Nathaniel Harris Pickett, Benni Lee Tignor, Miguel Espinal, Michael Noel, Kevin Matthews, Bettie Jones, Quintonio Legrier, Keith Childress Jr., Janet Wilson, Randy Nelson, Antronie Scott, Wendell Celestine, David Joseph, Calin Roquemore, Dyzhawn Perkins, Christopher Davis, Marco Loud, Peter Gaines, Torrey Robinson, Darius Robinson, Kevin Hicks, Mary Truxillo, Demarcus Semer, Willie Tillman, Terrill Thomas, Sylville Smith, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Terence Crutcher, Paul O'Neal, Alteria Woods, Jordan Edwards, Aaron Bailey, Ronell Foster, Stephon Clark, Antwon Rose II, Botham Jean, Pamela Turner, Dominique Clayton, Atatiana Jefferson, Christopher Whitfield, Christopher Mccorvey, Eric Reason, Michael Lorenzo Dean, Breonna Taylor. This non-comprehensive list of Black people in the United States killed by police since July 2014 was compiled by National Public Radio's Code Switch as part of an episode entitled “A Decade of Watching Black People Die.” BLM Resources: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-growing-black-lives-matter-resource-list-for-designers-and-humans/ SOCIAL MEDIA: @ThatsSoShravanPod on Instagram @ShravanMalaney on Instagram and Twitter

Sherronda Moore and I further discuss the unrest the United States is in. Should we Defund the Police? Give them more money? We discuss options, ideas, how Police have handled recent issues, our opinions and hopes for change.Interested in donating?.. Here are some links to get you startedUnicorn Riothttps://unicornriot.ninja/Black Lives Matterhttps://blacklivesmatter.com/Reclaim the Blockhttps://www.reclaimtheblock.org/homeOfficial George Floyd Memorial (Family GoFundMe)https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloydColor of Changehttps://colorofchange.org/Justice for David McAteehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/justicefordavidmcateeNational Congress of Black Women (Bipartisan)https://www.nationalcongressbw.org/In the name of Philando Castilehttps://www.givemn.org/organization/Philando-Castile-Relief-FoundationOfficial Gianna Floyd Fund (George Floyd’s Daughter)https://www.gofundme.com/f/gianna-floyd-daughter-of-george-floyd-fundOfficial Go Fund me - Justice for Breonna Taylorhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylorSay their names : Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Dante Parker, LaQuan Mcdonald, George Mann, Tanisha Anderson, Tamir Rice, Jerman Reid, Frank Smart, Natasha McKenna, Tony Robinson, Anthony Hill, Mya Hall, Phillip White, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Brendon Glen, Jonathan Sanders, Freddie Grey,Joseph Mann, Sandra Bland, Albert Joesph Davis, Darrius Stewart, Billy Ray Davis, Samuel Dubose, Michael Sabbie, Brian Keith Day, Christian Taylor, Troy Robinson, Felix Kumi, Keith Harrison Mcleod, Junior Prosper, Paterson Brown, Dominic Hutchinson, Anthony Ashford, Alonzo Smith, Michael Lee Marshall, Jamar Clark, Richard Perkins, Nathaniel Harris Pickett, Michael Noel, Kevin Matthews, Bettie Jones, Janet Wilson, Randy Nelson, David Joesph, Christopher Davis, Marco Loud, Peter Gaines, Torrey Robinson, Darius Robinson, Kevin Hicks, Demacus Semer, Willie Tillman, Terrill Thomas, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Paul O’Neal, Alteria Woods, Jordon Edwards, Aaron Bailey, Ronell Foster, Stephon Clark, Antwon Rose II, Pamela Turner, Dominique Clayton, Christopher Whitfield, Christopher McCorvey, Eric Reason, Michael Lorenzo Dean, Breonna Taylor, George FloydTwitter @CoffeeWithCarm1

Welcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists the establishment would rather silence.In this episode, we are joined by Margaret Kimberly and Monique Cullars Doty. Kimberly is a New York-based writer and activist for peace and justice. You can find her work at the Black Agenda Report where she is a senior columnist. Her book, “Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents,” was published in February. Cullars Doty is a local organizer for the Black Lives Matter Twin Cities Metro and greater Minnesota region and the Twin Cities Coalition for Jamar Clark. While some are calling it a “revolution” and others an “American intifada,” one thing is clear, that millions of people have taken to the streets to demand justice for George Floyd and an end to police brutality. This after a viral video showed Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck, slowly suffocating the life out him while he begged for his mother. Floyd struggled for air for over eight minutes. His dying words “I can’t breathe” were heard around the globe, igniting a mass uprising and calls to defund the police, place law enforcement under community control, and even to dismantle law enforcement institutions altogether.The state, under the Trump administration, has met their calls with brutality, beating and shooting protesters and journalists with rubber bullets, tear gas, and so-called less than lethal weapons. The National Guard has been deployed in over 30 states as the government struggles to keep a lid on the public’s anger.Philando Castile, Eric Garner, Walter Scott, Breonna Taylor. The list of victims of racist police violence goes on and on. Police, on average, kill over 1,000 Americans every year, vastly more than the rest of the developed world combined, yet officers are largely protected from any consequences. Margaret Kimberly and Monique Cullars Doty join MintCast to unpack the decades of racial injustice and police brutality unleashed on communities of color by the Democratic Party, how Democrats attempt to save face by co-opting justice movements, and the party’s roots in White supremacy. This program is 100 percent listener supported! You can join the hundreds of financial sponsors who make this show possible by becoming a member on our Patreon page. Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes, Spotify and SoundCloud. Please leave us a review and share this segment. Support the show (https://www.mintpressnews.com/donations/)

In this episode, we try to tackle race through the eyes of an immigrant. What do racial injustice and systemic racism mean to an African immigrant? Do we as immigrants understand it? What is the code language used to speak to police in order to get home safe and alive? We honor all who have lost their lives in the hands of police brutality and bad policing. We say their names: Amadou Diallo, George Floyd, Breona Taylor, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Ezell Ford, Jamar Clark, Philando Castille, Kenny Watkins, Michelle Shirley, Redel Jones, Stephon Clark, and Laquan Mcdonald, May they rest in peace, love, and truth. May justice prevail --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/anna-mwalagho/support

* Help the family of George Floyd: https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd * Fight for Breonna Taylor: https://justiceforbreonna.org/ * Help the family of Ahmaud Arbery: https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud Donate to one or more community bail funds: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd Visit Movement For Black Lives for additional ways you can help the cause: https://m4bl.org/ Petitions to sign, organizations to support, and more: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/ Want to learn more? Anti-racism resources: * https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/10/30/774704183/historian-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist * https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html * https://www.npr.org/2020/05/29/865261916/a-decade-of-watching-black-people-die * bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES * http://bit.ly/teachingantiracism * https://padlet.com/nicolethelibrarian/nbasekqoazt336co * https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/being-antiracist * bit.ly/BlackLivesAction * http://antiracismforbeginners.com/ * https://www.honeybook.com/risingtide/antiracist-resources-for-small-businesses * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PrAq4iBNb4nVIcTsLcNlW8zjaQXBLkWayL8EaPlh0bc/ * https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bz011IF2Pu9TUWIxVWxybGJ1Ync * https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/books-teach-white-children-and-teens-how-undo-racism-and-white-supremacy * https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/understanding-and-dismantling-racism-booklist-white-readers * https://zora.medium.com/100-best-books-by-black-women-authors-zora-canon-46b3492bdded SAY THEIR NAMES: ERIC GARNER, JOHN CRAWFORD III, MICHAEL BROWN, EZELL FORD, DANTE PARKER, MICHELLE CUSSEAUX, LAQUAN MCDONALD, GEORGEMANN, TANISHA ANDERSON, AKAI GURLEY, TAMIR RICE, RUMAIN BRISBON, JERAME REID, MATTHEW AJI, FRANK SMART, NATASHA MCKENNA, TONY ROBINSON, ANTHONY HILL, MYA HALL, PHILLIP WHITE, ERIC HARRIS, WALTER SCOTT, WILLIAM CHAPMAN II, ALEXIA CHRISTIAN, -BRENDON GLENN, VICTOR MANUEL LAROSA, JONATHAN SANDERS, FREDDIE BLUE, JOSEPH MANN, SALVADO ELLSWOOD, SANDRA BLAND, ALBERT JOSEPH DAVIS, DARRIUS STEWART, - BILLY RAY DAVIS, SAMUEL DUBOSE, MICHAEL SABBIE, BRIAN KEITH DAY, CHRISTIAN TAYLOR, TROY ROBINSON, ASSHAMS PHAROAH MANLEY, FELIX KUMI, KEITH HARRISON MCLEOD, JUNIOR PROSPER, LAMONTEZ JONES, PATERSON BROWN, DOMINIC HUTCHINSON, ANTHONY ASHFORD, ALONZO SMITH, TYREE CRAWFORD, INDIA KAGER, LA'VANTE BIGGS, MICHAEL LEE MARSHALL, JAMAR CLARK, RICHARD PERKINS, NATHANIEL HARRIS PICKETT, BENNI LEE TIGNOR, MIGUEL ESPINAL, MICHAEL NOEL, KEVIN MATTHEWS, BETTIE JONES, QUINTONIO LEGRIER, KEITH CHILDRESS JR., JANET WILSON, RANDY NELSON, ANTRONIE SCOTT, WENDELL CELESTINE, DAVID JOSEPH, CALIN ROQUEMORE, DYZHAWN PERKINS, CHRISTOPHER DAVIS, MARCO LOUD, PETER GAINES, TORREY ROBINSON,DARIUS ROBINSON, KEVIN HICKS, MARY TRUXILLO, DEMARCUS SEMER, WILLIE TILLMAN, TERRILL THOMAS, SYLVILLE SMITH, ALTON STERLING, PHILANDO CASTILE, TERENCE CRUTCHER, PAUL O'NEAL, ALTERIA WOODS, JORDAN EDWARDS, AARON BAILEY, RONELL FOSTER, STEPHON CLARK, ANTWON ROSE II, BOTHAM JEAN, PAMELA TURNER, DOMINIQUE CLAYTON, ATATIANA JEFFERSON, CHRISTOPHER WHITFIELD, CHRISTOPHER MCCORVEY, ERIC REASON, MICHAEL LORENZO DEAN, BREONNA TAYLOR, MANUEL ELLIS, GEORGE FLOYD. "The rate at which black Americans are killed by police is more than twice as high as the rate for white Americans. This is a non-comprehensive list of deaths at the hands of police in the U.S. since Eric Garner's death in July 2014." - from LA Johnson/NPR

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Eric Garner. John Crawford III. Michael Brown. Ezell Ford. Dante Parker. Michelle Cusseaux. Laquan Mcdonald. George Mann. Tanisha Anderson. Akai Gurley. Tamir Rice. Rumain Brisbon. Jerame Reid. Matthew Ajibade. Frank Smart. Natasha Mckenna. Tony Robinson. Anthony Hill. Mya Hall. Phillip White. Eric Harris. Walter Scott. William Chapman II. Alexia Christian. Brendon Glenn. Victor Manuel Larosa. Jonathan Sanders. Freddie Blue. Joseph Mann. Salvado Ellswood. Sandra Bland. Albert Joseph Davis. Darrius Stewart. Billy Ray Davis. Samuel Dubose. Michael Sabbie. Brian Deith Day. Christian Taylor. Troy Robinson. Asshams Pharoah Manley. Felix Kumi. Keith Harrison Mcleod. Junior Prosper. Lamontez Jones. Paterson Brown. Dominic Hutchinson. Anthony Ashford. Alonzo Smith. Tyree Crawford. India Kager. La'vante Biggs. Michael Lee Marshall. Jamar Clark. Richard Perkins. Nathaniel Harris Pickett. Benni Lee Tignor. Miguel Espinal. Michael Noel. Kevin Matthews. Bettie Jones. Quinonio Legrier. Keith Childress Jr. Janet Welson. Randy Nelson. Antronie Scott. Wendell Celestine. David Joseph. Calin Roquemore. Dyzhawn Perkins. Christopher Davis. Marco Loud. Peter Gaines. Torrey Robinson. Darius Robinson. Kevin Hicks. Mary Truxillo. Demarcus Semer. Willie Tillman. Terrill Thomas. Sylville Smith. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. Terence Crutcher. Paul O'neal. Alteria Woods. Jordan Edwards. Aaron Bailey. Ronell Foster. Stephon Clark. Antwon Rose II. Botham Jean. Pamela Turner. Dominique Clayton. Atatiana Jefferson. Christopher Whitfield. Christopher Mccorvey. Eric Reason. Michael Lorenzo Dean.

In participation with the week of action In Defense of Black Lives, we’re republishing a critical conversation that was shared under our previous name, Healing Justice, in April 2018. Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor of Black Visions Collective in Minneapolis took time to share with us about the 18-day police station occupation that followed the police murder of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis in 2015, and how healing, escalation, and direct action need to go hand-in-hand. We desperately wish this episode wasn’t so timely right now. For so many of our movements, times like now -- the moments when we are experiencing the most direct, deep racialized trauma, emergency, and injustice, when we really need to slow down for our own well-being -- are often the very moments that we also need to give the most, to escalate, to organize actions, hone our message, and fight back. We hope this wisdom-sharing from the past helps support you in navigating this time. For up to date trustworthy calls to action and places to donate, please see Black Visions Collective & the Movement for Black Lives. Transcript & links to listen at www.irresistible.org/podcast/66 Check out the corresponding practice called Healing in Direct Action at http://www.irresistible.org/podcast/66p For more Healing Resources for BIPOC Organizers and Allies Taking Action for Black Lives, visit https://medium.com/@irresistiblemovements/healing-resources-for-bipoc-organizers-allies-taking-action-for-black-lives-f55067486690 ---- Thanks to Alyson Thompson for social media and Ana Cecilia for music. Irresistible is sponsored by Kalliopeia Foundation: Dedicated to reconnecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. Learn more at kalliopeia.org

Before we start rest in peace to Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald, Tamir Rice, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Jamar Clark, Alton Sterling, Philandro Castile, Stephon Clark, Botham Jean, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. All of their lives taken by the very people who swore to protect them, the Police. This is short list believe it or not, because for decades this has been an ongoing trend between the Police forces of America and our black brothers and sisters. It's the same old story, a black man/woman killed by a police officer and the officer goes free. The most recent murder of George Floyd has sparked protests all over the world, but here in the US many of those protests were met with a brutal police reaction that has led to countless people fighting back. Other far right and far left radical groups have infiltrated the movement for change, and have instigated looting and destruction, taking away our message that we as a people are sick and tired of being marginalized, brutalized and murdered in cold blood because the color of our skin. One of the bros had the courage to step up and go protesting this past Sunday and he opens up about his experience. We also discuss what happens going forward. Does change happen? Do we come together as a people and force the change? Or do we return to the norm of a militarized police force brutalizing its black citizens with impunity? What the bros do agree on is it can't just be blacks vs racists, it needs to be the people vs racists. Jump in and enjoy.

Black Lives Matter Natosha “Tony” McDade, George Floyd, Yassin Mohamed, Finan H. Berhe, Sean Reed, Steven Demarco Taylor, Ariane McCree, Terrance Franklin, Miles Hall, Darius Tarver, William Green, Samuel David Mallard, Kwame “KK” Jones, De’von Bailey, Christopher Whitfield, Anthony Hill, De’Von Bailey, Eric Logan, Jamarion Robinson, Gregory Hill Jr., JaQuavion Slaton, Ryan Twyman, Brandon Webber, Jimmy Atchison, Willie McCoy, Emantic “EJ” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., D’ettrick Griffin, Jemel Roberson, DeAndre Ballard, Botham Shem Jean, Robert Lawrence White, Anthony Lamar Smith, Ramarley Graham, Manuel Loggins Jr., Trayvon Martin, Wendell Allen, Kendrec McDade, Larry Jackson Jr., Jonathan Ferrell, Jordan Baker, Victor White lll, Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, John Crawford lll, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Dante Parker, Kajieme Powell, Laquan McDonald, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Rumain Brisbon, Jerame Reid, Charly Keunang, Tony Robinson, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Brendon Glenn, Samuel DuBose, Christian Taylor, Jamar Clark, Mario Woods, Quintonio LeGrier, Gregory Gunn, Akiel Denkins, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Terrence Sterling, Terence Crutcher, Keith Lamont Scott, Alfred Olango, Jordan Edwards, Stephon Clark, Danny Ray Thomas, DeJuan Guillory, Patrick Harmon, Jonathan Hart, Maurice Granton, Julius Johnson, Jamee Johnson, Michael Dean   https://newsone.com/playlist/black-men-boy-who-were-killed-by-police/item/37

We Won't Forget!www.givingapurposepodcast.comCorey Jones, Notosha “Tony” McDade, George Floyd, Yassin Mohamed, Finan Berhe, Sean Reed, Steven Taylor, Ariane McCree, Terrance Franklin, Miles Hall, Darius Tarver, William Green, Samuel David Mallard, Kwame “KK” Jones, De’von Bailey, Christopher Whitfield, Anthony Hill, Eric Logan, Jamarion Robinson, Gregory Hill Jr., JaQuavion Slaton, Ryan Twyman, Brandon Webber, Jimmy Atchison, Willie McCoy, Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., D’ettrick Griffin, Jemel Roberson, DeAndre Ballard, Botham Jean, Robert Lawrence White, Anthony Lamar Smith, Ramarley Graham, Manuel Loggins Jr., Trayvon Martin, Wendell Allen,  Kendrec McDade, Larry Jackson Jr. , Jonathan Ferrell, Jordan Baker, Victor White III, Dontre Hamilton, Eric Garner, John Crawford III, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, Dante Parker, Kajieme Powell, Laquan McDonald, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Rumain Brison, Jerame Reid, Charly Keunang, Tony Robinson, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, Bredon Glenn, Samuel Dubose, Christian Taylor, Jamar Clark, Mario Woods, Quintonio LeGrier, Gregory Gunn, Akeil Denkins, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Terrence Sterling, Terrance Crutcher, Keith Lamont Scott, Alfred Olango, Jordan Edwards, Stephon Clark, Danny Ray Thomas, DeJuan Guillory, Patrick Harmon, Jonathan Hart, Maurice Granton, Julius Johnson, Jamee Johnson, Michael Dean

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-Rooster floats an idea for the Government to promote sterilization of young adults by plying them with taxpayer money. Crow doesn’t brook with, nor does he cotton to, any such program. -The human garbage that threw a boy off of a third-floor balcony plead guilty and his Mother claims that he struggled with mental issues and deserves leniency. Both Rooster and Crow aren’t havin’ it. -The family of Justine Damond, who was shot by diversity hire cop Mohamed Noor, just received a large settlement from the city of Minneapolis. Now the family of Jamar Clark, who beat his girlfriend and tried to take a police officer’s gun, are up in arms that they didn’t get paid too. -Would You Rather questions are asked and answered: WYR have a Jacuzzi in your bedroom or a secret room in your house? WYR go on a shopping spree in one store with no monetary limit or multiple stores with a ten thousand dollar limit? WYR own your own sports team on a losing streak or a chain of successful restaurants? -Crow highlights an article that lists many gun owners whose lives were saved just in the month of April alone while Rooster chimes in just to be a troll. -Bill Bar appoints a prosecutor to investigate the investigation of Trump and Rooster thinks someone is going to burn over it. Crow won’t be satisfied unless a major player is punished. -Beto cucks out on ‘The View’. -AOC now tries to gaslight people in regards to her statements about the world ending in twelve years. -Rooster calls out the lying liar Rashida Talib on her claims that the Palestinians fought to make a homeland for the Jews. Email us: rooster@breadandcircusespodcast.com crow@breadandcircusespodcast.com Our Face book page: www.facebook.com/Bread-and-Circus…339352686829476/ Our surströmming challenge video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l2T6_DswW0&t=559s

Learn how powerful it is to create a brand or value in a relationship that inspires other. We use stories from North 4 manager and Guest Speaker Will Wallace. Will Wallace is Manager of North 4 and Special Projects. He is a 20+ year veteran of youth and community work in North Minneapolis. He was part of the creation of the 2008 City of Minneapolis Blueprint for Action to Prevent Youth Violence. He has been a voice for engagement between police and community during times of crisis, such as the police shooting of Mr. Jamar Clark. Will has also consulted with the Minneapolis Public Schools for many years working with K-8 students promoting healing from the traumas of poverty, racism, and community violence. His unique expertise in working with youth who have been raised in the situation of violence and trauma and then become involved with gangs and/or the justice system was foundational to the development and launch of the EMERGE’s North 4 Program in 2010 and to its successful operation over several years. Two years ago, Will left EMERGE to focus on community work, and we are proud to announce his return to lead the North 4 program in 2018. Will Wallace holds a Global Career Development Facilitator certification , and has both participated in and led multiple trainings on youth violence prevention, mediation, healing from racial trauma, community engagement, trauma informed care, and related topics Contact Will Wallace wallacew@emerge-mn.org Follow Us: IG: @ends_media IG: @ends_life313 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ends-media-llc/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ends-media-llc/support

In this practice, you’ll hear stories, examples, and important questions to ask ourselves to incorporate healing and wellbeing into the preparation for action, during direct action itself, and aftercare. You can also download the corresponding conversation with Kandace Montgomery & Miski Noor (episode 22). We talk about the 18 day police station occupation following the police murder of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis, and how healing, escalation, and direct action can and need to go hand in hand. They also share about collective housing, gaining trust in moments of crisis and direct action, raising money for therapy and support for leaders who need it, and organizer burnout. -- ABOUT OUR GUESTS Kandace Montgomery & Miski Noor both work with the Black Lives Matter Global Network - Miski as a communications strategist, and Kandace as part of the organizing team. They’re part of Black Visions Collective (formerly known as Black Lives Matter Minneapolis) and are co-partners in a Minneapolis-based housing project, “The Purple Palace Project" that seeks to provide affordable, community centered housing for movement activists and organizers. They are both  trainers with Momentum, and Miski is on the Momentum Core Team. Miski is an organizer and writer based in Minneapolis, MN where they prioritize relationship building, healing justice, and creating movement cultures that are collaborative and sustainable. Miski is committed to working to create a world in which Black life is protected and our collective liberation is realized. Kandace is a Black, queer, feminist, organizer, trainer, and strategist, living out the legacy of her ancestors. Originally from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, she grew up mostly in rural Maine. She has been instrumental in building Black organizing infrastructure local to the Twin Cities. When she isn't organizing she's learning how to grow food (but basically as anticipation for the revolution), reading Octavia E. Butler, and practicing radical ways to love on her people. You can support their work by donating to Black Visions Collective (BLVC) at  bit.ly/BLMBAILFUND-- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for the email list at www.healingjustice.org    Social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice Please leave us a positive rating & review in whatever podcast app you’re listening - it all helps!   THANK YOU: Photo credit for this episode’s image from Chris Juhn PhotographyMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

This week, we’re talking with Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor of Black Lives Matter Global Network and Black Visions Collective in the Twin Cities. We’ll hear about the 18 day police station occupation following the police murder of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis, and how healing, escalation, and direct action can and need to go hand in hand. They also share about collective housing, gaining trust in moments of crisis and direct action, raising money for therapy and support for leaders who need it, and organizer burnout. You can download the corresponding practice (22 Practice: Healing in Direct Action) to be taken through some stories and important questions to ask ourselves how we are incorporating healing and wellbeing into the preparation for action, direct action itself, and aftercare. REFERRED TO IN THIS EPISODE: Black Visions Collective (BLVC): Support their movement & legal fund here bit.ly/BLMBAILFUND People’s Movement Center: http://www.peoplesmovementcenter.com/ BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity): http://boldorganizing.org/ ---- AFFIRMATIONS Each week we feature community voices uplifting people, organizations, and communities that embody the values of healing justice. Submit your own personal shout-out to spread love on the airwaves here: https://healingjustice.typeform.com/to/YjvuU2 This week’s AFFIRMATION comes from Jennie, lifting up Aaron Johnson. Thanks for sharing your respect and love. ---- ABOUT OUR GUESTS Kandace Montgomery & Miski Noor both work with the Black Lives Matter Global Network - Miski as a communications strategist, and Kandace as part of the organizing team. They’re part of Black Visions Collective (formerly known as Black Lives Matter Minneapolis) and are co-partners in a Minneapolis-based housing project, “The Purple Palace Project" that seeks to provide affordable, community centered housing for movement activists and organizers. They are both  trainers with Momentum, and Miski is on the Momentum Core Team. Miski is an organizer and writer based in Minneapolis, MN where they prioritize relationship building, healing justice, and creating movement cultures that are collaborative and sustainable. Miski is committed to working to create a world in which Black life is protected and our collective liberation is realized. Kandace is a Black, queer, feminist, organizer, trainer, and strategist, living out the legacy of her ancestors. Originally from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, she grew up mostly in rural Maine. She has been instrumental in building Black organizing infrastructure local to the Twin Cities. When she isn't organizing she's learning how to grow food (but basically as anticipation for the revolution), reading Octavia E. Butler, and practicing radical ways to love on her people.-- JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Sign up for the email list at www.healingjustice.org Social media: Instagram @healingjustice, Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, & @hjpodcast on Twitter This podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at www.patreon.com/healingjustice , and please leave a positive rating & review in whatever app you are listening. Every bit helps.   THANK YOU: Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

DeRay, Brittany, Sam and Clint talk about prisons, inequitable foster care practices, Trump’s refusal to enforce public law and the new Confederate show. Andy Slavitt joins for a healthcare update. DeRay sits down with Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges to talk about the police killings of Justine Damond and Jamar Clark. Golden Globe winning actress Tracee Ellis Ross joins DeRay to talk about activism, hand washing her clothes, and what’s next in her career.

This week, we air 2 interviews, one about the case of the Cleveland 4 and one with members of Unicorn Riot.      pt 1: The Cleveland 4 Firstly, we speak with Amanda Shemkes.  Amanda does legal support for members of the Cleveland 4.  The Cleveland 4, or CLE4, are 4 anarchists who're serving around a decade in Federal prisons in the U.S. on charges of terrorism.  Back story is that Brandon Baxter, Connor Stevens, Doug Wright, Joshua "Skelly" Stafford and Anthony Hayne were arrested on April 30th in 2012 for attempting to blow up a bridge with the provocation of an FBI informant named Shaquille Azir.  The young anarchists had coalesced during Occupy Cleveland as a group after encamping together, being involved in food distribution and activism and were targeted and entrapped by Azir who escalated their talk of direct action to the bombing plot and provided them with work, housing, drugs, alcohol, access to (fake) explosives and more.  Anthony Hayne took a cooperating plea deal with the Federal Government while Brandon Baxter, Connor Stevens, Doug Wright and Skelly all received sentences of around a decade each with terrorism enhancements promising lifetime probation.  Amanda talks about their case, their time inside, government attacks on social movements and how to support Brandon, Connor, Doug & Skelly, the Cleveland 4. More on their case can be found at http://cleveland4solidarity.org  Also of note, Connor Steven's birthday is coming up on December 17th, so send him a bday card!  Same day is Chelsae Manning's bday, actually... on that note, why not visit PrisonBooks.Info to see political prisoner birthdays for this month and sign up to receive the monthly calendar that the Prison Books Collective puts out?  No good reason, I reckon.   pt 2: Unicorn Riot Following this, we speak with volunteers with the non-profit, radical media outlet Unicorn Riot.  Founded in 2014, UR has expanded from it's Minneapolis base to be present on the ground at struggles around the U.S. covering events as they unfold with the words of the people involved, documenting the brutality of the state's reactions and bravery in the streets and the fields of those resisting.  As a platform, UR distributes regular tv episodes, podcasts and features small news briefs as well as a presence on social media.  UR's coverage of the uprisings in Minneapolis around the killings and lack of justice in the killings of Jamar Clark  & Philando Castille and more recently of the struggles of Water Defenders at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota have gone viral, increasing solidarity and pressed mainstream media outlets to expand their coverage of these violent government interventions. In this second half of the episode, the plucky media rebels share their views on activism and journalism, on media paradigms, their project and some of the resistance it's participated in. A quick postscript correction Patrick misspoke a couple of times during the interview that we didn't catch. Corrections are: 1.) When describing the drone rules on Standing Rock, he meant to refer to no-fly rules from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and not the FCC (which oversees broadcast restrictions and allowances in the U.S.); 2.) When Patrick talks about Niko being flagged down by police to broadcast a police statement over Unicorn Riot, it was actually during the Justice for Jamar Clark struggle, not in the aftermath of the killing of Philando Castille. Also, a tool noted by Wendy & Pat for research into government coverup used by journalists these days: https://www.muckrock.com/   This week Sean Swain shares his thoughts on Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution in light of Fidel's death last week.  More from Sean at http://seanswain.org   Announcements   Asheville Peace Vigil with Standing Rock Tomorrow, Monday December 5th in Asheville there's a prayer and vigil in Soldarity with Standing Rock as regards the struggle to stop the expansion of the Dakota Access Pipeline we'll be talking about later in the episode.  Folks are meeting at 6pm at Pack Square.  Bring an offering.   Anti-klan rallies in NC/VA Also, big ups to the folk who went out to face off the kkk motorcade on Saturday the 3rd in Danville, VA & Pelham, NC.  This time the KKK got their own stabby after the fact.   Tragic fire at Ghostship warehouse in Oakland Of note, our hearts here at the final straw go out to those suffering the devastating effects of the fire at the Ghostship warehouse on Friday December 2nd during a 100% Silk party.  According to the most recent KGO-7 news out of San Francisco at 2pm EST on Sunday the 4th of December, 24 victims have been found inside the warehouse.  A list of missing people has been compiled in an article on heavy.com.  Not all of those pictured are known to be among the victims of Friday's fire.  To donate to relief funds, visit youcaring.com.   Playlist pending

Business of Health.Well.Fit. 9:30AM CT|10:30AM ET SPECIAL "CommunityView" on Weds., July 6 police killing of Mr. Philando Castile age 32. Our guests - confirmed are Bishop Divar Kemp spokesperson for family of Mr. Philando Castile and concerned community.  Tues, July 12! @9AM CT, Join in person Live at Sammy's Avenue Eatery. We want to hear your voice and posture on this police killing of another 'none resisting African American men Philando Costile, Alton Sterling to name''. "For all we know Jamar Clark, when commanded to remove hands from pockets, could have been doing so prior to being assaulted & killed."  GMSbuzz & Guest Contact: 8.13 YiG Stars & Stop bullying Now Movement present TeenTalk REAL.RAW.REALITY. "Caught in the Cross Fire" of bullying, gang & gun violence. Join LIVE Audience, North Community YMCA Teen & Youth Ctr, 1711 W. Broadway Ave N, Mpls, MN 55411 For more info: Mrs. Alicia Smiley 612-805-5756 eMail: gracemediaservices@yahoo.com Mpls. *Donate In memory & support GoFund for BroSun Kirk Washington, Jr Legacy  Guest/Programming Booking: gracemediaservices@yahoo.com.  Send us your questions/comments before, during, after the broadcast. Join us on Twitter@GMNetwork, Facebook@GMNLiveTv, YouTube@GMNLiveTv or Instagram@GMNLiveTv -- SB Barber Morning Show with Apostle Shena SB Barber is produced by ShenaBarber.com and presented by GRACE Media Network.  

Last week in California, the 29 yr old organizer with the Pasadena Black Lives Matter chapter, Jasmine "Abdullah" Richards was found guilty of lynching. Richards (who prefers the name Jasmine Abdullah) was attempting to shield another protestor from being detained by the Pasadena police. Abdullah is scheduled to be sentenced on June 7. The charge brings a sentence of up to 4 yrs in state prison. A police dog bit Max Garcia, 22, during an August 2105 arrest. The officers gave him no medical attention for his numerous open wounds. Days later, a jailhouse nurse accused Garcia of "faking or exaggerating" his condition and he was punished for not cooperating. Still no medical care was given. Garcia was dead the next day. The cop who killed Florida church drummer Corey Jones, 31, has gotten a wee slap on the hand. Wait til you hear the charges. Dozens of Ferguson protestors could be charged (again) under a bad law. Some view this as a strategic attempt by the county to have leverage against people who might sue for unlawful arrest and police brutality. St. Louis police officers Ronald Vaughan and Kyle Chandler won't face charges for shooting 18 yr old Mansur Ball-Bey to death in August 2015. You surprised? No civil rights charges for the two Minneapolis officers who shot the handcuffed Jamar Clark in the head last November. You surpised? In Chicago, Ashley Harrison is facing felony charges for firing a warning shot to chase off the man who just murdered her fiance. Notice that the NRA is completely silent. The family of C.J. Pettit are still waiting for an explanation as to what happened the day cops killed their 18 yr old son. To this day, there's been no police report released. According to Jim Appleton, a respect expert on audio and video analysis, the police version doesn't match the surveillance video. Surprised? Tues, June 7, 6pm Pacific  

This week: Jamar Clark civil rights decision, special session speculation, DNR total takeover and new U of M A-D Mark Coyle.

Joe Friedberg and Michael Brodkorb join Lucy Quinlivan to discuss more controversy surrounding the Jamar Clark case and prosecution following an op-ed piece in the Star Tribune published by Steven Belton entitled, "Jamar Clark case: Freeman played dog-whistle politics in communicating the narrative." They also chat about the state of the presidential election, developments in the Grazzini-Rucki case, and more.

Melody and Raechel discuss all things Drake. Also a discussion of power bottoms, cultural appropriation, Jamar Clark, plus What We're Listening To & What We're Reading!

https://onthegroundshow.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OTG-MAR31-2016.mp3 Michele Roberts, national co-chair of the Environmental Justice Health Alliance, kicks off this show’s renewed commitment to cover issues of the environment and sustainability. We speak to her and Pam Nixon about one Black West Virginia community a fighting David-versus-Goliath battles against corporate pollution, about a recent big victory, and about how the lead poisoning water crisis in Flint Michigan is just the top of the iceberg of not only deficiencies in the country’s water infrastructure but of structural environmental racism. Guests and voices: Michele Roberts, Pam Nixon, Chen Kane, Democracy Spring, voices from "West Virginia Water Crisis" by Krista Bryson. Headlines: -Nuclear Summit is underway here in the nation’s capital. -The Nuclear Threat Initiative hosts a panel on nuclear security in the Middle East. -Global Zero/ globalzero.org rallies against 15000 ready-to-fire nuclear weapons in the world with a a life-size inflated nuclear missile. -After the shocking decision by the DC Public Service to allow the nuclear giant Exelon to take over Pepco, Power DC is continuing the fight. -Democracy Spring starts this Saturday with a march from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to DC, where from April 11th to 18th, thousands have pledged to engage in civil disobedience. -Nigerians are vehemently opposing Monsanto’s attempts to introduce genetically modifiedcotton and maize into Nigeria’s food and farming systems. -Beekeepers in Minnesota have received compensation from the state’s department of agriculture after hives destroyed by pesticides. -Congresswoman Maxine Waters introduced landmark legislation that would provide $13 billion dollars to end homelessness in America. -In Black Lives Matter News, Minneapolis police officers win Minnesota who shot and killed unarmed 24-yearold Jamar Clark will not face charges, prosecutors announced on yesterday. Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper seen on video harassing bullying and assaulting Sandra Bland during a false arrest last year was just fired from him job and here locally progressive activists are winning in some of their demands to the Maryland General Assembly for police reform in the state. -Black Millennials for flint is holding a NoLeadZone Old School Pajama Jam (April 8, 2016 10:00 PM-1:00 AM) in DC. -'Miles Ahead,' the biopic about Miles Davis starring Don Cheadle opens tomorrow here in the DMV. Also opening is the comedy 'Meet the Blacks'. Also tomorrow, the poetry anthology Resisting Arrest edited by poetTony Median drops tomorrow. -Jamila Bey on the elections and announcing her nrew show in our exisiting time slot. "On the Ground" is moving to Friday 10am, 89.3 FM in the DMV and and streaming live at www.wpfwfm.org. Producer and Host: Esther Iverem Contributors: Michele Roberts Chantal James Lydia Curtis Michael Byfield Dj Wah-Heed with remixes of "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar and "Mercy, Mercy Me, The Ecology" by Marvin Gaye.

This week: Freeman's decision on Jamar Clark case, MN Capitol update, rural grocery store challenges, Gopher women’s hockey team review

Joe Friedberg and Bob Bennett join Ron and Lucy over the phone to analyze every angle of the Jamar Clark case following the announcement made by the Hennepin County Attorney's Office that they will not be charging the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Clark.

Talk2Us. Apostle SB Barber on Perspectives from Mel Reeves -journalist/activist & political analyst on SBBMS Weds., Ms. Lisa Clemons - former MPD Sgt, now host on Community Values Conversations KMOJ Radio, Pastors Devin Miller (Dallas) - commetator on SBBMS Tues  & Brian Herron Sr - Sr Pastor of Zion Baptist Church (his perspective written below). "If the evidence favors the two Mpls 4th Precinct police officers Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze in the killing of Jamar Clark and that is Cty Atty Mike Freeman's conclusion, will people accept his findings since he was asked to make the decision?"  Pastor Brian Herron Sr states, "We can still be hopeful no matter what the verdict 'charge' or 'no charge' because we have a real opportunity to really work with the Federal Initiative to transform policing in this city. Plus, we must continue to work, push, and demand a real tangible response to the disparity gaps as well as other issues. Protest if we must. But, we must also know what we want and be ready to sit down and stay at the table to bring and force solutions. If we do that collectively, then Jamar's death will not be in vain." GMSbuzz & Guest Contact: *3.18 Fri. @12N, Hennepin Cty Gov Ctr, dwntwn Mpls & 3.19 Sat. @12N, Urban Jerusalem, 1823 Emerson Ave N, Mpls.  *3.19 Sat. @9AM CT Special Edition SB Barber Morning Show - Dr. Velma Clopton will address Africans & AfricanAmericans can't afford to sit this out. Pres Obama has only months left in office. Sign Now petition @The Voice of Freedom Ntl & Intercontinental Movement Proclamation Send us your questions/comments before, during, after the broadcast. Join us on Twitter@GMNetwork, Facebook@GMNLiveTv. 

Business of Weds Best Resources - Apostle SB Barber with commentator/analysts Mel Reeves on Dateline & Brett Buckner on Now What?! GMSbuzz & Contact Link: Twitter @BrettBuckner Facebook/MelReeves Freeman Fridays Rally at Mpls Goverment Ctr office of Attny General Mike Freeman re: Justice for Jamar Clark demand - Prosecute the Police. Plus, Call Mondays the following #s 612-348-5550 & 612-348-2136 March 19 @ 9AM CT Sat., Special Edition SBBarber Morning Show - Dr. Velma Clopton. Visit website: The Voice of Freedom Ntl & Intercontinental Movement MNNOC.org Voicesforracialjustice.org  Sunlightfoundation.com NAACP.org  SBBMS definition of Best Resources are identifiable spiritual & natural suppliers of Resources to elevate & benefit an individual, a community, a nation.

Business of Weds Best Resources - Apostle SB Barber with contributing guests Mel Reeves on Dateline: Pediatrician Dr Mona Hanna –Attisha has become a hero in Flint and around the world. She is a shero; Brett Buckner on Now What?! "There is a good chance that Flint would have learned a lot later than it did that they were actually being poisoned, if one woman had not taken a very public stand. Lots of people hear about a problem and think 'that’s too bad' and wait for someone else to solve it or hope it passes, but not pediatrician Dr Mona Hanna –Attisha who has become a hero in Flint and around the world. She is a shero..." --Mel Reeves GMSbuzz & Contact Link: March 19 @ 9AM CT Sat., Special Edition SBBarber Morning Show - Dr. Velma Clopton The Voice of Freedom Ntl & Intercontinental Movement MNNOC.org Voicesforracialjustice.org  Sunlightfoundation.com NAACP.org  GMSbuzz... Freeman Friday Rally at Mpls Goverment Ctr office of Attny General Mike Freeman re: Justice for Jamar Clark demand - Prosecute the Police. Plus, Call Mondays the following #s 612-348-5550 & 612-348-2136 SBBMS definition of Best Resources are identifiable spiritual & natural suppliers of Resources to elevate & benefit an individual, a community, a nation.

Business of Weds Best Resources - Apostle SB Barber with contributing guests Mel Reeves on Dateline: Primary America and Brett Buckner on Super Tuesday recap Now What?! Contact Link: MNNOC.org Voicesforracialjustice.org Sunlightfoundation.com NAACP.org  Natl Urban League GMSbuzz... Freeman Friday Rally at Mpls Goverment Ctr office of Attny General Mike Freeman re: Justice for Jamar Clark demand - Prosecute the Police. Plus, Call Mondays the following #s 612-348-5550 & 612-348-2136 SBBMS definition of Best Resources are identifiable spiritual & natural suppliers of Resources to elevate & benefit an individual, a community, a nation.

Sam interviews Niko Georgiades, a producer with Unicorn Riot. The two talk about his experiences with independent media in contrast to mainstream, the protests surrounding the police killing of Jamar Clark an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, the First Amendment and more!

Sam interviews Niko Georgiades, a producer with Unicorn Riot. The two talk about his experiences with independent media in contrast to mainstream, the protests surrounding the police killing of Jamar Clark an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, the First Amendment and more!

Business of Weds Best Resources - Apostle SB Barber - Commentary w/ Mel Reeves 'Judge Scalia, Black Panthers, Self governing/determining' & Brett Buckner 'MN March 1st Caucus'. SBBMS definition of Best Resources are identifiable spiritual & natural suppliers of Resources to elevate & benefit an individual, a community, a nation. Contact: MN Neighborhoods Organizing For Change [NOC] 612-246-3132. Website -NOC March Caucus Training MN Caucus Locations Website Freeman Friday Rally at Mpls Goverment Ctr office of Attny General Mike Freeman re: Justice for Jamar Clark demand - Prosecute the Police. Plus, Call Mondays the following #s 612-348-5550 & 612-348-2136 SBBMS Weds BR @TheTurnTable Playlist: ABradshaw "Revolution". For show Booking/Inquiries contact: GMS@GraceMediaServices.com.  Follow us on Twitter@GMNetwork, Facebook@GMNLiveTv, YouTube@GMNLiveTv, Instagram@GMNLIVETV and Instagram@SbNMepk; BlogTalkRadio.com; GMNLive.com; Get us on iTunes@SBBarberMorningShow.

This week: Jamar Clark lawsuit, paid parental leave for state employees, teen suicide and NHL stadium series.

Chuck Samuelson, the head of the Minnesota chapter of the ACLU, joins Ron and Lucy in-studio to discuss recent developments in the Jamar Clark case and the actions of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Plus, Todd Rapp joins the conversation to weigh in with his thoughts and predictions for the candidates left in the GOP presidential primaries and what they'll need to do to stay in the race.

I sit down with Minneapolis Council Member Alondra Cano. We cover a range of topics including the general hostility that she experiences as part of the overall challenges of being a public and committed social justice oriented council member. She discusses her experience with doxing around speaking against the execution of Jamar Clark and the support of the activists of #Black Lives Matter,

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. We'll use these sessions to hone our use of words as tools to reveal truth, neutralize White people. We'll examine news reports from the past seven days and - hopefully - promote a constructive dialog. #ANTIBLACKNESS Whites in Waller County, Texas celebrated Christmas by announcing that there would be no indictments for the suspicious death of Sandra Bland earlier this year. The Suspected Race Soldier who arrested Bland, Brian Encinia, might still be charged (don't count on it). The Bland family said the news devastated the family as they attempt to support one another through the holidays. Black Lives Matter protesters in Minnesota disrupted profits and Yuletide cheer by protesting at Mall of American and a neighboring airport. Marchers continue to call attention to the shooting death of Jamar Clark. Georgia State University associate professor Joe Perry published a fascinating report explaining how Christmas rituals fit nicely with the Adolf Hitler's Nazi propaganda. Perry wrote that German women played a critical role: "The German mother could use Christmas to â??bring the spirit of the German home back to life.â?? The holiday issues of womenâ??s magazines, Nazified Christmas books and Nazi carols tinged conventional family customs with the ideology of the regime. #AnswersForMiriamCarey INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p

Business of Thursday Health.Well.Fit. Dec 17! Guests Mel Reeves & Kandace Montgomery. Hear Mel Reeves - Twin Cities Coalition for Justice update on Countdown to Justice For Jamar Unity March & Rally, Sat., Dec 19 - rallying a 10,000 march. Kandace Montgomery - Black Lives Matter Minneapolis. Shakyira representing young voices of local chapter of Urban Strategies Inc lead by Elana Dahlberg; Kyara Lambert - high schooler leads out 'Stop bullying Now Movement' (SbNM) and host YiG Showcase 'Rising Stars'; Justice4Jamar DEMANDS: Prosecution of the police who killed Jamar Clark; NO GRAND JURY; Immediate release of the evidence tapes; Federal domestic terrorism charges against criminals who shot 5 protestors; Community control and oversight of police. This is our city!" Share/Tag/Tweet/Verbally Pass it on! See Event page for more details:  Justice For Jamar Unity March & Rally, Sat., Dec 19   If you have a question or comment, press #1 to engage the Host. Follow http://tobtr.com/sbbarbermorningshow; Twitter@GMNetwork; Facebook@GMNLiveTv; Instagram@GMNLIVETV. Presented by GRACE Media Network -the Legacy.

Business of Weds Best Resources-Talk2us. Join us on your destination SB Barber Morning Show. March from 4th Precinct to Government Ctr in the upcoming city-wide 'Justice for Jamar Unity March & Rally' on Sat,12/19@12N. We want '10,000 marching for Jamar'. OUR DEMANDS: DEMAND Prosecution of the cop who killed Jamar Clark; NO GRAND JURY; Immediate release of the tapes; Federal domestic terrorism charges against criminals who shot 5 protestors; Community control and oversight of police. This is our city!" Slideshow images:  12/13 - John Jennings, whose 19 year old son Teven King (pictured) was one of the young people shot by White Supremacists (3 shown) wounded 5 protesters during the occupation of the Minneapolis Fourth Precinct police station, "...people should come out to the march and keep the fight going, so that the sacrifice his son and the four other young people made would not be in vain. His son Teven had the most serious wound as he was shot in the stomach and the intestines and he had to undergo three major surgeries. They were unable to remove the bullet, which will remain lodged in his pelvis for the rest of his life. White Supremacists Shooters - Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman doesnt think its a hate crime.  SBBMS definition of Best Resources are identifiable spiritual & natural suppliers of Resources to elevate & benefit an individual, a community, a nation. If you have a question or comment, press #1 to engage the Host. Follow http://tobtr.com/sbbarbermorningshow; Twitter@GMNetwork; Facebook@GMNLiveTv; Instagram@GMNLIVETV. Presented by GRACE Media Network -the Legacy.

The video footage of Jamar Clark's shooting was released, showing that the police lied about the teenager lunging at them with a knife. Prosecutor Anita Alverez appears to be lying when she insists that although 88 minutes of the Burger King surveillance video is missing, no one tampered with the tape. Why is she covering for the police? Still photos of two police officers sitting at computers inside the Burger King office have surfaced despite official denials that the police interfered with the footage. Check out "In the Streets" Facebook page to see those photos as well as the video tootage showing Jamar Clark gunned down. Jason Van Dyke's defense lawyer says the video doesn't show the entire story because the footage is only 2-dimensional. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel helped suppress this video for a full year while he was running for reelection. A Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado was under a terrorist seige where three people, including a police officer, were killed by a Christian extremist. Unsurprisingly, the Caucasian gunman was apprehended, unharmed, by the police. The media, while regularly demonizing minority victims as "criminals", is taking great care to paint this Caucasian mass murderer in a favorable light. Conservatives across the nation have defended this terrorist crime, citing popular lies regarding Planned Parenthood. Donald Trump lied about a meeting with black ministers who he claimed intended to endorse his candidacy. As they publicly denied their support, Trump claimed a "miscommunication". The meeting took place as scheduled, with fewer in attendance than Trump originally boasted. It remains to be seen how many, other than the organizer, will endorse Trump, Frustrated with the inaction of Prosecutor McGinty, who seems to be dragging his heels regarding justice for Tamir Rice, the Rice family released their own independent experts' reports. And more. Tuesday, December 1, 6pm Pacific.

The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. We'll use these sessions to hone our use of words as tools to reveal truth, neutralize White people. We'll examine news reports from the past seven days and - hopefully - promote a constructive dialog. #ANTIBLACKNESS Much like 2014 when the death of Tamir Rice and the non-indictment of Eric Garner's killer cast a pall over "Thanksgiving," this year's holiday was again dominated by black death. 5 Black Lives Matter protesters were shot in Minnesota while opposing the police killing of Jamar Clark. The gunmen are Suspected White Supremacists, and CBS reports that charges are pending against four men. A local NAACP representative alleges that the Minneapolis Police Department may be directly or indirectly involved in this act of domestic terrorism. Concurrently, a Suspected Race Soldier was charged with first degree murder in the 2014 shooting death of Laquan McDonald. Television networks were again broadcast looped footage of a black teen being gunned down in the street. The Daniel Holtzclaw trial entered the fourth week, and it still seems that the black female victims are the presumed violators. And White House security thwarted another intruder who hopped the fence at the Obama's residence in Washington, D.C. Unlike Miriam I. Carey, the trespasser was not shot. #AnswersForMiriamCarey INVEST in The COWS - http://tiny.cc/ledjb CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program features our regular PANW reports with dispatches on the historical ties between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Zimbabwe; leading politicians in the Federal Republic of Nigeria have given newly-elected President Muhammadu Buhari an ultimatum to resolve the fuel shortage within two weeks; anti-racist activists in Chicago have threatened to shutdown "Black Friday" shopping in the Loop in response to the failure of the mayor to fire the police chief after stalling the release of a video showing the blatant killing of an African American youth; and Minneapolis protests are continuing in the aftermath of the cop killing of Jamar Clark. In the second hour we pay tribute to Cynthia Robinson, the legendary trumpeter and co-founder of the classic Rock and R&B band Sly and the Family Stone who passed away earlier this week at the age of 69. We will also feature a rare archival interview with the immortal Langston Hughes from 1963 where he discusses his work schedules and race relations in the United States. Finally in the last hour we honor the 73rd birthday of Jimi Hendrix who revolutionized guitar playing and popular music during the 1960s. Hendrix died under mysterious circumstances on September 18, 1970 in London.

Listen to this special edition of the Pan-African Journal hosted by Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire. The program is dedicated to the National Day of Mourning in honor of the indigenous people of North America who were forcefully removed from their land. In this broadcast we feature our regular PANW reports with dispatches on the arrest of four white men in the shooting of anti-racist demonstrators in Minneapolis where protests over the police killing of Jamar Clark have brought thousands into the streets; African Americans are leading demonstrations in the streets of Chicago as well after the release of a video showing the brutal killing of a teenager by police last year; the shooting down of a Russian fighterjet has intensified tensions between NATO and the government of President Vladimer Putin; and an examination of what is behind the wave of attacks from Paris to Bamako is reviewed. In the second hour we pay tribute to American Indian Movement (AIM) political prisoner Leonard Peltier who has been incarcerated in federal prisons for nearly forty years. Also we look at the hidden history of the Black Seminoles who fought the United States government in a series of wars during the 19th century. Finally we rebroadcast a Global Research Radio report on the US-backed war against the people of Yemen which originally aired earlier in the year.

BHL: Justice Is Served -- In this episode Black Hollywood Live hosts Chelsea Galicia and Shaka Smith discuss legal cases for the week of November 25th, 2015. In today's show the hosts discuss the tragedy of Jamar Clark and the Black Lives Matter shooting, if Jared Fogel being sentenced to 15 years is enough, the officer who killed Laquan McDonald was charged with murder, Al Roker passed over by a cab for a white passenger, and more on Today's Justice Is Served!

Black Lives Matter and their response to the shooting of Jamar Clark in North Minneapolis. Continue reading →

A discussion about the shooting death of Jamar Clark by North Minneapolis police officers. Continue reading →

Two white masked gunmen opened fire on black protesters in Minneapolis on Monday night.  Five people were shot, two seriously wounded. Witnesses said that the gunmen yelled about race wars and white power. At the time of publication, police haven't yet managed to apprehend the suspects. Protesters remain at the police precinct, demanding the release of surveillance tape which is likely to have caught Jamar Clark's execution-style killing on November 15. The authorities steadfastly refuse to release the tape.  The police dash cam video of Laquan McDonald's murder is scheduled to be released to the public on Wednesday, November 25. Jason Von Dyke, the Chicago cop who shot Mr. McDonald 16 times (13 of which were pumped into his body after he'd fallen to the ground) has been charged with murder. Burger King has declared that the Chicago police deleted their surveillance video which recorded the shooting. "Officer of the Year" Jonathan Bleiweiss admitted raping and molesting 20 immigrants, threatening them with deportation if they didn't perform sex acts on him. He's been charged and convicted, but not with sex crimes. Donald Trump's supporters beat down a black man at one of Trump's rallies, while chanting "All lives matter." Trump doubled down, praising his supporters and suggesting that the black man deserved the beating. And more. Tuesday, November 24, 6pm Pacific.  

The Wiz Live coming to your tv soon, Jamar Clark's murder and expert protesters, Trump's support of beating of BLM activist, Thanksgiving, bdays and more! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sit-with-us/support

State Representative and police officer Dan Schoen shares his thoughts and perspective on the North Minneapolis shooting of Jamar Clark, the 4th precinct shutdown and I94 shutdown protests that followed, how the mayor of Minneapolis is handling the situation, and more. Plus, Michael Brodkorb is also in-studio to discuss two missing Lakeville sisters, Samantha and Gianna Grazzini-Rucki, being found at a Western Minnesota horse farm after being missing for over two years.

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Bangkok, Beirut, and Paris were all recently the scenes of terrorist violence. But the world only expresses immense grief for Paris. Tamir Rice's family is still waiting for justice, but a Caucasian child who was killed three weeks ago by Los Angeles police during a chase will have his killers held accountable. The brown-skinned officers who shot him were rapidly charged with homicide. Jamar Clark was shot dead in Minneapolis on Sunday. Witnesses say he was laying on the pavement, handcuffed behind his back, and was shot by cops in the back of his head execution style. Ralkina Jones' death in custody has been officially ruled an "accident". The videotape of Jaquan McDonald's shooting by police in Chicago will finally be released, according to Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. The Waller County TX police department is blaming Sandra Bland's family for her death in custody, saying the family didn't bail her out. Daniel Ken Holtzclaw (the ex-cop currently on trial for the rape and sexual assault of 13 black women) is saying that black women, unlike Caucasian women, cannot be raped. And more. Tuesday, November 17. 6pm Pacific