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Creating a new image of rural Minnesota Cheniqua Johnson, age 22, on her historic run for MN House

This article is the third in an occasional series profiling candidates running for various offices and how their election might impact our communities.

What is the most important thing you want to accomplish if you get elected into office?

Bringing more individuals to this conversation when it comes to state governance. Our state government does not necessarily represent the state in its entirety, and I want to be able to bring more individuals to the conversation – whether that be farmers, or people of color, immigrants, young people. [I want to] bring that voice and that perspective to places where I feel currently there are none.

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orthington, MN-native Cheniqua Johnson is the youngest DFL-endorsed woman and one of the first women of color to run for state office in her district in Southwest Minnesota.

The 22-year-old University of Minnesota graduate has a background in public service and community organizing, including serving as a political organizer for the DFL Party and as a legislative intern for U.S. Senate and policy intern for Gov. Mark Dayton. One might think running for office would be the natural progression for Johnson, but she said she did not think about it until approached by Rep. Ilhan Omar (DFL).

“I started to think about my community and what is it that we really need,” said Johnson about her decision to run for House District 22B. Cheniqua Johnson “I really felt that it was necessary for our community to start being able to speak up and have people listen to them and that’s where I see my role.”

The following are Johnson’s responses to the MSR’s questions:

Photo courtesy of Cheniqua Johnson

“Yes, there are Black people in rural Minnesota… We’re parents, teachers, educators, nurses, labor workers.”

What is the most controversial issue you think you will have to deal with if you get elected and how will you deal with it?

I don’t know if controversial is the right word, but what I will say is this idea of the rural-metro divide. Politically it’s not necessarily a voting issue, but I do think that it is something that is a perception issue.

One of the things we are really trying to combat is [the idea] the metro does not care about rural Minnesota or that rural Minnesota does not have a voice at the state legislature. I will bring representatives

■ See Johnson on page 8

‘Sci-fi social work’ to be explored at Black life conference na Dinku, Neenah Furgerson, Brian Lozenski, Keith Mayes and Mel Reeves.

“We’re talking about food justice, we’re talkHundreds are expected to gather this week- ing about gentrification, we’re talking about poend for an inaugural conference creating a space lice brutality, we’re talking about issues of defor young Black folk in Minnesota and around portation,” Evol continued. “So in this moment, the country to network, empower and heal one what are the conversations that are imperative another around issues impacting Black commu- to have, that we cannot do without?”

The conference is part of a larger movement nities.

While Minnesota cities are touted national- Evol is building through his organization Black ly as some of the best places to live, people of color – particularly African Americans – continue to face racial disparities in economics, health, housing and food. Add the anecdotal effects of “Minnesota nice,” police-involved shootings, and isolated pockets of communities of color and people in poverty, and one can experience a looming disconnect.

Keno Evol is looking to connect the challenges and growth opportunities via the “Because Black Life Conference.” The twenty-something poet and educator has teamed with a core group of organizers, artists, healers and educators to create a safe space for conversation and movement around issues that affect Black communities.

“I was thinking of it as a statewide check-in,” Keno Evol, founder Black Table Arts/Because explained Evol. “Black folks checking in with Black Life Photo by Dani Weaner Photography each other to really think about what are the possibilities, the protocols, the tools and the processes we are developing in the state of Minne- Table Arts, founded in 2015 to connect creatives sota that exercise possibility in Black Life from a and cultivate Black life around what he calls “sci-fi social work.” variety of topics,” “It’s the process of community engagement The daylong gathering features panel discussions along with a rotating block of break- where we intentionally activate imagination for out sessions running the gamut from financial the future,” he said, “and think about how do literacy and Black intellectualism and libera- we put it into practice in our daily lives.” tion to zines, media and film representation ■ See ConferenCe on page 8 and dance. Speakers include Rose Brewer, Ha-

By Stephenetta Harmon Editor-in-Chief

Fashion show participants at the Twin Cities Natural Hair and Beauty Expo Photo courtesy of TCNHBE

Beauty lovers gather to build Black self-esteem

And, incidentally, tap into a $445 billion industry

However, Shades of Beauty Expo and Twin Cities Natural Hair & Beauty Show are changTwo Minneapolis events ing that with their groundare looking to put Minnesota breaking events bringing toon the map for Black hair and gether Black women and men beauty. This is no small feat for to celebrate not just hair and Minnesota, which is often re- beauty, but also health, wellferred to as a “flyover” state ness and community.

Nearly a thousand beauty when it comes to major beauty brands and products for Afri- lovers streamed through the can Americans and other peo- separate events to get the latest and greatest on products and ple of color.

Stephenetta Harmon Editor-in-Chief

Family Day Fun!

By MSR Editors Penn Avenue was the Northside hot spot, literally and figuratively, on a sweltering Saturday afternoon for the Minneapolis Urban League’s (MUL) annual Family Day celebration.

On August 11, community organizations, elected officials and candidates lined the street as attendees made their rounds gathering information, networking and enjoying food. Entertainment included DJs from KMOJ, Val Turner of Noir Elite Fitness, Voice of Culture Drum and Dance, and Unlimited Next Level Dance.

deals on hair and beauty musthaves from local and national vendors, as well as to connect with like-minded attendees.

The third annual Shades of Beauty Expo (SOBE) kicked off Saturday, August 11 with an “Ambassadors of Beauty Brunch” featuring Dr. Reatha Clark-King while celebrating Twin Cities’ leaders who are

■ See Beauty on page 8

Steve Belton, president and CEO of MUL, greeted the crowd and explained how the event began as a way to celebrate and uplift families and counter the negative narrative of Black family life in North Minneapolis.

Belton also encouraged the community to enjoy the festivities. “If you didn’t come to have fun and meet new friends, enjoy good food and get information about how you can move your family and your life forward, than you are in the wrong place,” said Belton. “But I suspect you’re in the right place, because you’re right here on Penn and Plymouth avenues enjoying Family Day!”

Photos: (left) Sisters Nani and McCall Vickers ;(center) DJ Phoenix; (right) Rep. Ilhan Omar, Nikki Love and Rep. Erin Maye Quade Photos by MSR

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Baseball in Benin brings aspiring Little Leaguers to Minnesota

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welve Little League-aged baseball players from the small West African nation of Benin got to meet former Twins great Torii Hunter July 31 during Twins batting practice at the Twins stadium.

Team Benin was in Minnesota last week to compete in the 14th Annual Robbinsdale Woodbat Tournament.

Team Benin arrived in the Twin Cities on July 23 and had a busy first week, including visits to the Mall of America, Gopher Baseball Camp at the University of Minnesota, the observation deck of the Foshay Tower, Minnehaha Falls, and a Twins game with Cleveland.

The team visited Twins Baseball Camp at Minnetonka High School and met with Timberwolves center Gorgui Dieng at Lakeview Terrace Park in Robbinsdale. Dieng is from Senegal, West Africa, also a Frenchspeaking nation.

Team Benin’s game schedule began on Thursday, August 2 and continued through Sunday afternoon, August 5, at Lakeview Terrace.

Team Benin’s trip was funded by donations to Baseball in Benin. The nonprofit organization was founded in 2011 by two former Robbinsdale Minnesota Little League

In May of this year, Tonsager and Langfellow traveled to Cotonou, Benin where they evaluated players, met with players’ families and helped organize the team’s trip to Minnesota. They also met with Beninese government officials and US Embassy personnel to help further awareness with the goal of baseball becoming a national sport in Benin.

In addition to bringing America’s pastime to Benin, the Baseball in Benin program is working to provide books and school supplies to the players and families involved in the program. Currently there are over 400 youth playing baseball throughout Benin.

For more information or to donate to Baseball in Benin, visit baseballinbenin. org.

Information provided by Baseball in Benin.

Team Benin

Photo courtesy of Baseball in Benin

coaches, Gary Tonsager and Wally Langfellow, who had a vision of bringing baseball to the small French-speaking country of Benin.

Since 2011, the program has sent gently used baseball equipment, uniforms and shoes from Minnesota to the players in Benin. In 2016,

a first-ever team from Benin traveled to Minnesota to compete in the Woodbat Tournament, which exclusively benefits the program.

Race still trumps class as predictor of economic status

The AntiPoverty Soldier by

Dr. Clarence Hightower The 21st Century, oh what a shame, what a shame that race… race still maters.

– Prince Even children whose parents make the same amount of money, who grow up on the same block, they grow up to have dramatically different incomes in nearly every single neighborhood in the United States. Even for Black sons whose families make roughly a million dollars a year, they are equally likely to be incarcerated as the White son of a family that makes $40,000 a year.

– Nathaniel Hendren

It was Wilson’s contention that socioeconomic class was emerging as more of a determining influence on the social mobility of African Americans than race. In exploring many of the economic and sociological theories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Wilson reaches the same class-based conclusion that several philosophers from those eras predicted would evolve.

To be fair, Malcolm X began to discuss the importance of class toward the end of his life.

Moreover, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. expanded his call for racial, social and economic justice with his 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. African American leaders such as Huey P. Newton, James Foreman, Kathleen Cleaver, Erica Huggins and Fred Hampton expounded even further on the intersection of race and class.

Yet none of these individuals or the movements they represented ever diminished the impact that racism, both individual and systemic, has had and continues to have on American culture.

Still, National Public Ra-

a serious challenge to that perception.

Conducted by a pair of economists from Harvard and Stanford respectively (both of whom represent the National Bureau of Economic Research – NBER) and two researchers from the United States Census Bureau, this study evaluated the economic outcomes of approximately 20 million American children (born between 1978 and 1983) and their parents. The results reveal that African American and Native American children (particularly boys) are far less likely to achieve any measure of upward economic mobility as adults.

Compared to all of the other research that exists, this should not be surprising. But what is notable is that significant racial inequities, particularly Black/White disparities, prevail even among Black and White Americans who live in the same affluent neighborhoods.

Although the researchers found a few examples where such disparities are limited, in 99 percent of all census tracts

among people of color regardless of their station in life.

As a Harvard economist and one of the authors of this study, Nathaniel Hendren states, “I’m speculating, but… the two groups who happen to stand out – African Americans and Native Americans – tend to be groups who have experi-

enced a very different history in America… So that does suggest thinking about the longrun historical processes that might have gotten us here.”

Clarence Hightower is the executive director of Community Action Partnership of Ramsey & Washington Counties. Dr. Hight-

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In 1978, a full decade removed from the peak of the Civil Rights Movement in America, University of Chicago sociologist William Julius Wilson published his second book, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions. Wilson’s controversial text, while met with awards and critical acclaim from some corners, was strongly disparaged in others.

dio’s Jenny Gathright notes that, similar to Wilson, “The widely-held belief” among economists and scholars has been that “class, not race, is the most fundamental predictor of economic outcomes for children in the United States.”

However, a study published earlier this year titled “Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective” presents

African American boys earn less than their White counterparts from the same neighborhood and socioeconomic status. These numbers seem to clearly reinforce the notion that – in spite of those who have argued we are now living a postracial era – the historical legacy of racism and the personal and institutional racism that continues to plague our society produces racial inequality

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Malaria: a disease caused by protozoa carried by mosquitos

By Charles E. Crutchfield III, MD Dr. Crutchfield, my neighbor recently traveled to Africa and told me he caught malaria when he was there.

What is malaria?

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alaria is an infectious disease that is spread by mosquito bites. It is estimated that over 200 million people contract malaria every year around the world, and over 500,000 people die every year from the disease.

Most deaths from malaria occur in Africa in children under the age of five.

The mosquito is the carrier of a parasite that is in the saliva of the mosquito. When mosquitoes bite humans, they inject a unique anticoagulant contained in their saliva into the site of the bite so they can keep drinking blood without the blood clotting. In addition to the anticoagulant (which stops blood from clotting), the saliva of an infected mosquito also contains the protozoan parasite that causes malaria.

Protozoa are single-celled organisms that are larger and more complex than bacteria. The exact type of protozoan that causes ma-

laria is called Plasmodium. There are four sub-types of plasmodia that cause malaria. Plasmodium falciparum causes the most severe forms of malaria and is responsible for the most deaths caused by malaria.

Malaria played a very significant role in the World Wars. In World War II, over 500,000 American soldiers were infected with malaria. An estimated 60,000 American soldiers died from the disease, which is more than the total number of soldiers who died in the entire Vietnam War. The parasite enters the blood of a human from the infected mosquito bite. Interestingly, only female mosquitoes transmit malaria. Male mosquitoes don’t drink blood.

When the parasite infects red blood cells and is released from red blood cells into the blood, the symptoms of malaria occur. Once the parasite is in the blood, it travels to the liver, where it lives and matures. After maturation, the parasites move into the blood and infect red blood cells. This maturation process usually takes two to several weeks, but some strains of the parasite can lay dormant in the liver for up to a year.

At this point, if a person is bitten by an uninfected mosquito, that mosquito can become a new parasite carrier and infect another uninfected person, continuing the spread of the disease.

In addition to mosquito bites, malaria can be transmitted from pregnant mother to fetus, via blood transfusions, and from shared needles.

Symptoms The initial symptoms of malaria are very similar to having the flu. They usually occur about two weeks after the mosquito bite, but in some cases may not develop for over a year. Malaria symptoms include fever, chills, nausea, diarrhea, headaches and vomiting. One of the hallmarks of having malaria is a condition called “paroxysms.”

This is when a person cycles between shivering chills and sweating fevers.

Sometimes, without treatment, malaria can recur in the same person several times. In severe cases, malaria can affect the brain, lungs, and other organs, leading to death.

Prevention Malaria is prevalent in sub-tropical and tropical areas such as subSaharan Africa, the Subcontinent of Asia, and Central America. If a person is traveling to a malaria-prone country, they should talk to their doctor and take preventive medicines before, during and after the trip.

Watch out for scammers posing as insurance agents

• Never give personal or financial information to someone you don’t know over the phone.

• Regularly review your bank account and credit card statements and report unauthorized charges to your financial institution.

If you answered a call that you believe was a scam, write the number down and report it to the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357) or ftc. gov/complaint.

If you have been contacted about buying Premier Health Plan insurance or any other suspicious insurance offers, contact the Com-

If you receive an automated call, don’t say anything and hang up.

Some consumers have also received “premium” invoices in the mail or found unauthorized charges on their bank accounts. The fraudulent bills appear to be on Premier Health Plan letterhead, while the unauthorized charges on bank account statements show up as “Premier Health.”

To avoid being the victim of an insurance fraud scam, the Minnesota Commerce Department offers these tips: • If you receive an automated call, don’t say anything and hang up.

• Don’t answer calls from an unknown number or pay an invoice from a company you don’t have an insurance policy with.

fected by the malaria parasite.

Treatment Treatment for malaria is based on several factors, including which malaria parasite the person is infected with, the patient’s age, the severity of symptoms, and pregnancy status.

Many medicines used to treat malaria are no longer effective.

The history of malaria treatment is marked by developing new, effective drugs as the parasites develop resistance to the standard, older medicines. However, the overwhelming majority of patients treated for malaria will recover fully and have healthy lives.

If you travel to a high-risk malaria region and develop flu-like symptoms, talk to your doctor about the possibility of being tested for malaria.

Scam alert: Premier HealtH Plan a fraud The Minnesota Commerce Department is warning Minnesotans of an insurance fraud scam involving individuals posing as representatives of Premier Health Plan, which earlier this year discontinued all of its health insurance products in Minnesota and nationwide, including Medicare Advantage plans.

Consumers from across the country are receiving numerous automated calls pretending to sell Premier Health Plan insurance. As part of the phone scam, consumers who receive an automated call and express interest in buying health insurance are routed to a person who asks for their bank account information.

The best prevention is to avoid getting bit by mosquitoes. This includes using effective mosquito repellants and bed-netting so mosquitoes can’t bite at night during sleep.

Some people who live in malaria-infested areas develop partial immunity. This immunity is lost if they move to an area that does not have malaria. Scientists feel that having the condition of sicklecell anemia may be an advantage in that the abnormally shaped red

merce Department’s Consumer Services Center by email at consumer.protection@state. mn.us or by phone at 651-539-1600 or 800-6573602 (Greater Minnesota).

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blood cells resist malaria infection.

Surprisingly, malaria has been complicated to develop a vaccine against. There is a promising potential vaccine currently being tested in Europe, but it is not commercially available at this time.

Diagnosis There are several blood tests available to diagnose malaria.

Some are rapid, and some can take several days. The standard test is to look directly at a patient’s blood and observe the red blood cells that have a classic appearance when in-

Charles E. Crutchfield III, MD is a board-certified dermatologist and Clinical Professor of Dermatology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He also has a private practice in Eagan, MN. He received his M.D. and Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology and Genomics from the Mayo Clinic. He has been selected as one of the top 10 dermatologists in the United States by Black Enterprise magazine. Dr. Crutchfield was recognized by Minnesota Medicine as one of the 100 Most Influential Healthcare Leaders in Minnesota. He is the team dermatologist for the Minnesota Twins, Vikings, Timberwolves, Wild and Lynx. Dr. Crutchfield is an active member of both the American and National Medical Associations, and president of the Minnesota Association of Black Physicians.

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How to throw a waste-free party

arties can mean big fun, but they can also mean stress on the environment. Thankfully, you don’t have to take the fun out of planning to keep your garbage from overflowing. You can entertain family and guests without leaving a heavy footprint. It just requires a little pre-planning and setting yourself up with durable goods. Read on for six quick tips to help reduce the waste at your next big function.

Party location can be anywhere from the family home to a park, theater or church, depending on your needs. If the party isn’t going to be held at your home, ask the venue staff about their management of recycling, composting and trash for your party. Stress your desire and need to have these items taken care of in the greenest way possible. You may have to set these stations up on your own, so be sure you know what is expected of you.

Invitations can simply be created via an event on social media or evite invitation to email to friends and relatives.

If you’d still like to send paper invitations out to the most important guests, or those who aren’t available through email, be sure to check for recycled paper options when buying your invitations. Many companies have recycled paper stock options for you.

Decorations can be easy and simple.

• Hang family photos for guests to reminisce.

• Buy potted plants that you can use in your garden after the party is done.

• Reuse things like canning jars and eclectic assortments of vases or dishes you have collected through the years.

• Go to places like party rental stores or bridal consignment shops that rent or sell decorative items, including linens, vases, candles and silk flowers all at great prices.

• Skip the balloons, they can be a large problem for our wildlife and waterways if they get broken or float away.

Servingware can be tricky – how do you serve a large group of people when you aren’t sure of attendance numbers?

• For starters, opt for reusable plates and silverware to minimize waste.

• Borrow from friends and family — that can be a no-cost item for your party.

Using reusable containers can help minimize waste.

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Check with party rental stores for renting the items you need.

Pick up some items from a local thrift shop.

Food and drinks can help you with reducing the number of throw-away items you need to buy for your celebration.

• Plan out your menu for finger foods to eliminate the need for individual utensils.

• Go to stores where you can buy your ingredients for your meals in bulk or large quantities.

• Order bakery products or deli items ahead of time to help eliminate some of the plastic you would come home with if you bought buns by the dozen instead.

Recycling and composting doesn’t have to feel like a chore for your guests.

• Place clearly marked containers to the side and out of the main traffic area for your guests to use.

• Use different shaped containers to help distinguish disposal types.

• Make sure to also mark the top of your containers, as marking only the sides will often result in guests putting things in the wrong container, even with the best of intentions.

And finally, don’t forget the most important tip of all: Have fun!

—Information and photo provided by Hennepin County.

Six eco-friendly alternatives to plastic straws Grain straws Did you know before paper and plastic straws, people drank beverages through stalks of grain? You can still buy these biodegradable straws from such sites as HarvestStraws.com.

Bamboo straws These all-natural straws are made with sustainable and renewable materials and without dyes or chemicals. While reusable, they have a limited shelf life and must be hand-washed and laid out to dry in a wellventilated location to prevent mold. You can find these in Bloomington at BambooMN.

By Stephenetta Harmon Editor-in-Chief According to EcoCycle.org, we use a mindboggling 500 million straws each day. In fact, the straws and stirrers make up nearly 10 percent of all plastic products found in the environment, according to Better Alternatives Now, or BAN 2.0. And, as previously reported, those disposable plastic straws end up sitting at the bottom of landfills and polluting marine life where it will stay for hundreds of years.

Across the country, businesses, and entire cities, are now calling to ban straws. Cities like Santa Cruz, Calif., Miami Beach, Fl., Seattle, Wash., and Malibu have already banned or limited the use of these single-use suckers.

Other cities, including New York City, are currently in the process of introducing legislation. Starbucks and McDonald’s have also joined the conversations.

Even locally, an increasing number of Twin Cities businesses have eliminated their use, including the Dakota Jazz Club and Ice House. If you’d like a straw at First Avenue and 7th Street Entry, you’ll have to specifically request it.

This growing anti-plastic straw movement provides a great opportunity for us to say no to plastic both at home and on-the-go. Read on for five eco-friendly alternatives that have less of an impact on the environment.

Silicone straws These straws are a great option for those who can’t get over the feel of plastic straws.

They also don’t transfer heat and won’t break down on those who like chewing on straws.

The best part? Instead of throwing them away when you’re done, you can simply light and burn it down into biodegradable ash. Try the Koffie Straw at Amazon.

Paper straws These may seem a little odd on first use, but this one-time use option is biodegradable and often made from recycled and renewable sources. They work especially great for events and gatherings. These are by far the easiest to find locally including at Walmart and Target.

Metal straws Stainless steel, aluminum and titanium straws are among the most durable of options and offer travel-friendly designs. You can find folding, collapsible and bent options that are reusable and dishwasher safe.

Be careful, though, as a hot drink can heat up your straw, too. We found a Greens Steel four-pack for $10 on Amazon.

Glass straws Glass straws are a great option for those who find clear straws appealing or just want a more elegant look. However, they are also the priciest, ringing in at nearly $40 and up.

They also require a bit of extra care as they can break. Still want in? Try Moss Envy in Minneapolis.

Stephenetta Harmon welcomes reader responses at sharmon@spokesman-recorder.com. Photo courtesy of Getty Images.

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Through My Eyes

The Minneapolis Story Continues

Another death at the hands of police

By Ron Edwards Contributing Commentator Two St. Paul police officers shot and killed William Hughes, a Native American, on Sunday, August 5, 2018, on the 900 block of St. Anthony just two blocks from the mayor’s house. For too long, silence was the first response because, as one of the cops was Black, it seems it didn’t fit the “narrative” of White cops shooting Black citizens.

The initial accounts by media and St. Paul officials left a lot to be desired. From my onsite visits and multiple phone calls since that Sunday, I learned that Hughes had a gun, which he shot from his home at the intruders and he then called 911. When two squad cars responded to Mr. Hughes’ 911 call, he opened his door to them and was immediately shot to death – without a word or question. Hughes still had his gun in his hand, at his side.

The police transmission, “shots fired, person down,” followed and was played on the 10 o’clock news. It provided limited insight, but a statement by one of the officers implies they realized they had shot the innocent 911 homeowner caller on his own property.

The absence all day Sunday of any statement from civil rights leadership, except for John Thompson, an African American activist, continued to cause a sense of uneasiness regarding the circumstances and the facts. The case was turned over to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). BCA gives off the same sense: that they cannot be trusted. The BCA has friends within the Twin Cities’ civil rights leadership and has said that it can keep segments of the Black communities under control when officer-involved incidents take place.

The following day, on Monday, August 6, as they do in such cases, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called for the immediate release of the name of the man shot and the names of the police officers that shot him. I only learned the names early Tuesday, August 7.

We agree that to defuse any suspicion of an ab-

sence of the pursuit of justice, that St. Paul Mayor Carter should immediately order the release of the full transcripts of the 911 call, the police officers’ communications, body cams, and dash cams in order to get the best answers to questions raised about whether Hughes’ death was due to a lack of a “best practices” focus, as seen in mismanagement and incomplete training of police procedures and protocols in both the city of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

We see two types of killing in the cases we have commented on in earlier MSR editions. One is shooting first and asking questions afterwards, as in the cases of: • William Hughes, shot August 2018 in St. Paul • Justine Damond, shot July 2017 in Minneapolis The second type is “easy pickings” killing of those that offer no defense: • Thurman Blevins, shot while mourning a family death in June 2018 in Minneapolis • George Edward Washington, beaten to death in in his Kandiyohi County jail cell in Wilmar, MN in January 2018 • Terrance Terrell Franklin, shot while being subdued by a SWAT team in a corner basement in Minneapolis in May 2013 In each case, the officers (White and non-white) seem to lack an understanding of the techniques for lowering their own anxiety and fear and staying calm in order to make split-second decisions with pistols in hand. These are the kind of techniques dealing with stress training that SWAT officers are supposed to receive.

Too many believe there is a dangerous buildup in the state of Minnesota, with police unnecessarily taking the lives of Minnesotans of color and gender. Better training is cheaper than wrongful death lawsuits.

Stay tuned.

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The racial optics of the opioid epidemic

By Raynard Jackson Guest Commentator Please excuse me for not welling up with empathy for those who are addicted to opioids.

Yeah, I know drug addiction is a bad thing, but people make choices and have to live with the consequences.

I am old enough to have lived through the crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s and found little to no empathy from the public, especially politicians, because crack fell disproportionately hard on the Black community.

As a matter of fact, Blacks were told it was a moral failing by the user and the seller; thus, they deserved what they got. As a matter of fact, the public demanded legal action be taken against those caught up in the crack epidemic.

Lock ‘em up and throw away the key was the political sentiment in Washington, D.C. during the ’90s when it came to crack dealers and users. This view led to the mass incarceration of low-level drug dealers

and users, culminating with people like Hillary Clinton labeling young Blacks who were caught up in the drug trade as “super-predators.”

According to the U.S. News and World Report, 79 percent of the 5,669 sentenced crack offenders in 2009 were Black, versus the 10 percent who were White and 10 percent Hispanic.

Juxtapose that with what the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found out about the opioid problem. In 2016, according to the foundation, White victims made up almost 80 percent of the deaths from opioid overdoses, with Black victims comprising only 10 percent of deaths and Hispanic victims, eight percent.

Basically, the crack epidemic disproportionately affected Blacks and the current opioid epidemic disproportionately affects Whites. A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that cocaine-related overdose deaths among Blacks were on par with heroin- and opioid-related deaths among Whites between 2000 and 2015.

Opioid addiction is being

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treated as a medical condition, with hundreds of millions of dollars being allocated to various forms of treatment and prevention; whereas, crack addiction was labeled a moral failing and a law enforcement issue.

Now lawmakers, Black and White, are calling for humane solutions to the scourge of opioid addiction. There are all kinds of reasons for this and I get it.

Real leaders in the Black community need to stand up and demand more money and programs for the drug problems that are destroying the Black community that have nothing to do with opioids.

When will the public demand law enforcement action against physicians who have willfully overprescribed opioids to patients unnecessarily? These physicians are the modern-day version of the drug dealer, except they are not working on the street corner, but rather in the cozy confines of their medical offices.

Where is the lock ‘em up and throw away the key sentiment towards opioid users that politicians showed towards crack dealers?

One would have to be totally blind not to see the racial optics being played out in this whole debate about the humane solutions for the opioid drug problem compared to how the “War on Drugs” was handled.

I am really struggling with my inability to muster up any empathy for the victims of this latest drug scourge that is moving across our country.

So, to those who are reading this column who think I am cold, heartless, and hateful, please spare me your unrighteous indignation.

Raynard Jackson is founder and chairman of Black Americans for a Better Future, a federally registered 527 Super PAC established to get more Blacks involved in the Republican Party. You can follow Raynard on Twitter @Raynard1223.

St. Cloud: No Minnesota community has paid a higher price for its pathological racism Myrle Cooper Guest Commentator According to St. Cloud (often ridiculed as “White Cloud”) authorities, local police, witnesses and the St. Cloud Times, a racist White male and his girlfriend, possibly a woman of color, assaulted a Black man for simply parking on their street.

Witnesses told police the racist man attacked the Black man first with a bottle causing facial lacerations. Then, he continued to attacked by swinging a large strap with metal hooks, charging at him with an ax, running him over with a truck and threatening to hang him from a tree – all while yelling racial slurs.

“We are taking into consideration the race-motivated aspect of this crime with respect to sentencing,” said Assistant Stearns County Attorney Kyle Triggs in a press statement last week. “That could play a role in increasing the sentencing, dependent on the court and jury.”

Since details and facts are so often blurred to distract attention, minimize and/ or sanitize “White Cloud’s” historically racist environment, it can be helpful to readers of color to consider previous headlines — particularly those from the St. Cloud Times. The paper began as Minnesota’s first and only pro-slavery propaganda source (1856-1861) before evolving into what it is today.

Examples of such damning headlines describing St. Cloud’s pathological racism include the following from 2006 and 2007, when hate crimes escalated in response to Black community influx: “St. Cloud’s racism is a long-looming storm,” Minnesota Public Radio, 4/27/2006; “St. Cloud State University: ingredients for a racist stew,” Minnesota Public Radio, 5/10//2006; “Few willing to challenge St. Cloud’s entrenched racism,” Minnesota Spokesman-

Recorder, 7/26/2006; “Is it safe to send our children to St. Cloud?” editorial: Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder 2/7/2007; “St. Cloud tops state in hate crimes, but some dispute methodology,” Associated Press, 11/24/2007.

After the claims that St. Cloud was the “most livable city on the planet” were ridiculed by a City Pages reporter (“WTF: St. Cloud could be world’s most livable city?”), leaders panicked.

Even City Hall’s promotional denial bombed. (“St. Cloud: City’s ‘livable’ DVD contains profanit y,”TwinCities.com, 1/27/2011) With so much bad press, St. Cloud Mayor Dave Kleis and his City Council decided changing the city’s logo and motto might distract attention from the community’s racist reputation. Four public relations firms were employed to help change brand/ image for St. Could State University (SCSU) and the city, including Stamats Higher Education Marketing, Earthbound Media Group, The Lakota Group and Next Communications. As expected, their promotional strategies ignored racism.

If you think reports of “White Cloud” racism were scathing several years ago, the FBI, national and state news media reports imply conditions have worsened significantly since 2010. However, local leaders, particularly Mayor Kleis, City Council member Jeff Johnson and House Representative Jim Knoblach and the St. Cloud Times defensively claim, “National, state media types get it wrong on St. Cloud.”

As data results from FBI lists ranked “White Cloud” tops for Minnesota hate crimes – paired with humiliation and ridicule from studies by Aspen Institute’s Roundtable on Community Change and Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity — there was more pan-

ic at St. Cloud State University/SCSU presidents’ office address and City Hall. Even the reliably protective St. Cloud Times’ headlines revealed concerns: “St. Cloud must overcome identity crisis,” “What can be done to eliminate the label ‘White Cloud?’” and “Will historians look back on a diverse or divisive St. Cloud area?”

For Blacks and others of color considering education or jobs with residency in “White Cloud,” the news headlines below describe a few of many race-based attacks during the last two years: “St. Cloud PD: Man showed knife, uttered racial slur,” WCCO, 2/28/2017; “Cab passenger charged with hate crime, assault of Somali driver,” St. Cloud Times, 4/6/2017; “Arrested for openly carrying an assault-style rifle, St. Cloud man sues,” Associated Press, 5/6/2016; “Update: Girl stabbed at St. Cloud Walmart,” WJON Radio, 4/20/2017; “Teen says man who stabbed her in Walmart is a stranger,” US News 4/21/2017; “St. Cloud man accused of attacking 2 men with fork causing minor injuries,” St. Cloud Times, 4/30/2017; “St. Cloud man sentenced in racial bias hatchet attack,” WJON Radio, 8/23/2017; Complaint: Machete used to threaten man; and St. Cloud Times, 9/9/2017.

No wonder SCSU has grudgingly confessed to losing at least “5,266 students” – one third of its total enrollment since 2014. And, one can easily understand why U.S. departments of civil rights, education and justice, those “national and state media types” continue to expose, humiliate and ridicule “White Cloud.”

Myrle Cooper is a retired faculty member at St. Cloud State University. He welcomes reader responses at coopermb1976@ gmail.com.

Trying My Best Fear is not a justification for death Frank Erickson Contributing Commentator Comedian Dave Chappelle once said, “White people look at Black men as shysters, that we are always up to no good.”

Officers Justin Schmidt and Ryan Kelly do not get to pile on more bogus justification for the killing of Thurman Blevins based on their paranoid delusions.

The officers believed they were being lured into an ambush by Blevins because he ran into an alley and “was not really trying to run away.” Their paranoid delusions were not grounded in reality – it is their fears that are

run amok.

Their fear of Black men has them believing that they were not just chasing one Black man, but that there were a whole bunch of Black men in the alley in hiding, ready to execute them. And that Blevins was the shyster – up to no good trying to lure them into an ambush.

Many Whites believe the officers’ fear of being lured into an ambush is legitimate because they would process it the same way.

If Schmidt and Kelly chase a White man down an alley in Uptown Minneapolis, would they also fear a possible ambush?

Frank Erickson lives in Minneapolis.

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Black cop infiltrates Klan in thoughtful, fact-based dramedy Spike Lee delivers best work in years involved infiltrating the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Here’s how that came to pass: Using his real name, Stallworth impulsively answered a classified ad recruiting new members, not knowing what to expect.

When the organization subsequently contacted him by phone, Stallworth adopted a “White” accent and complained bitterly about his sister dating a Black man. That was all it took for him to get invited to the Klan’s next meeting and to secure a membership card signed

by Grand Wizard David Duke (Topher Grace).

Instead of blowing his cover by showing up himself, Stallworth asked a Jewish colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), to attend and impersonate him. Despite several close calls, the two managed to closely monitor the Klan’s movements over the next nine months.

That alternately comical and lifethreatening assignment is the focus

By Kam Williams Contributing Writer

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ack in the ’70s, Ron Stallworth became the first African American to join the Colorado Springs Police Department.

The ambitious, young college grad

was soon promoted to detective, and his initial undercover case involved covering a Stokely Carmichael (Corey Hawkins) rally at Colorado College where the incendiary Black Power advocate was invited to speak.

But, his most unlikely mission

of BlacKkKlansman, a thought-provoking dramedy adapted by Spike Lee from Stallworth’s memoir of the same name. The movie made quite a splash at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, where it won the Jury’s Grand Prize.

What makes the picture work is the way in which it mocks the small-minded Klan members’ racist attitudes and behaviors. It also juxtaposed that shameful chapter of American history with current events. The closing credits show a newsreel of the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville last summer, which culminated in the murder of Heather Heyer by a White supremacist who plowed his car into a group of peaceful counter-demonstrators.

BlacKkKlansman is a sobering Spike Lee Joint suggesting that the Klan might very well rise again, especially given President Donald Trump’s frustrating equivocating and refusal to take sides. Easily, Lee’s best offering in ages!

(l-r) Adam Driver and John David Washington in BlacKkKlansman

Former athlete shares perils of addiction and joy of recovery Arts No Chaser Dwight Hobbes

Contributing Writer

Religion, recovering substance abusers often say, is for people afraid of going to hell.

Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there. Accordingly, Vin Baker, disgraced Milwaukee Bucks basketball star, courageously redeemed man, qualifies to be as spiritual as they come.

God and Starbucks (Amistad/HarperCollins Publishers, $25.99), co-authored with New York Times writer Joe Layden, chronicles Baker’s hellish account. Starting with the prologue: “I was a former millionaire driving my mother’s Mercedes…to a pawnshop with four old tires stuffed into the back seat and trunk. I sold the tires for eighty bucks, bought a few bottles of liquor and drank myself into oblivion until the pain was gone -– the ache in my lower back that signaled a failing liver and the ceaseless cloud of loneliness that hung over every day.” It testifies to his character that he didn’t sell the car.

The narrative lacks compelling immediacy and lapses into tedium, but it’s still serviceable.

Fans will enjoy the insight into his career, while at the same time marvel at Baker’s determined self-destruction. Importantly, it’s exceptional in that few celebrity addicts live long enough to turn things around, much less thrive in the aftermath.

Baker has virtually risen like the fabled phoenix, including rescuing his family life as a loving husband and devoted

dad. Frighteningly, this descent could’ve happened to a doctor, lawyer or bricklayer –- they simply wouldn’t have gone through $100 million-plus in the process.

Baker could afford to drink top shelf and did. He began a greased, steady downhill slide toward an inevitable crash. The disease of alcoholism being what it is –- the American Medical Association recognizes it as incurable but treatable –- he pigheadedly stuck it out. Even when it slowed him on the court, Baker kept bending an elbow and firing up joints. Pretty soon he no longer had a problem, the problem had him; his performance eroding, gradually degrading.

A sad irony, in bad shape, Baker was one of the game’s best which enabled him to keep destroying himself without losing his livelihood. But things got so bad he wound up trashing that, as well, and ended up

on the Timberwolves’ bench.

At one point, he changed to pill popping, which amounted to switching seats on the Titanic.

When he finally threw in the towel and admitted powerlessness over addiction, Starbucks owner Harold Schultz and Rev. Calvin Butts of Abyssinian Baptist Church double-teamed him with support. They helped him help himself and get back on his feet.

Baker grabbed his second chance with a vengeance, becoming a youth minister at the church and working his way up from the floor of a coffee shop to managing one. It’s not in the book, but he also became a Bucks anchor for Fox Sports in Wisconsin.

Dwight Hobbes welcomes readers responses to dhobbes@spokesmanrecorder.com. Book cover courtesy of Amistad/HarperCollins

Excellent (4 stars) Rated R for pervasive profanity, racial epithets, disturbing violence, sexual references and mature themes Running time: 135 minutes Production Studio: 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks / Monkeypaw Productions / Blumhouse Productions / QC Entertainment / Legendary Entertainment / Perfect World Pictures Distributor: Focus Features BlacKkKlansman opened nationwide on August 10 to a weekend estimate of $10.7 million, coveting the number-five spot according to boxofficemojo. com. Check local listings for showtimes.

Kam Williams welcomes readers’ responses to kam_williams@hotmail. com.

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Johnson Continued from page 1

from [the] metro – because there are some that have never been to rural Minnesota, southwest Minnesota – to my area to show them around and get them involved in the conversation so we [can be] on a united front.

I think we are stronger together. We are very similar despite geographic location, despite backgrounds, despite ethnicities, cultures, religions – we are pretty similar in experience.

What do you like most about your district?

I love Worthington. I love the people, the diversity, the activism, and the community. It’s my home. My district is in southwest Minnesota and is one of the most diverse districts in our part of the state. There are 50+ languages spoken in my district with families, cultures and backgrounds from all around the world. That’s the reason I believe we need to have leaders that can adequately represent that diversity in our district at St. Paul, in our city councils, and What elected officials past or present in the on our school boards. state do you admire?

I admire Representative Rena Moran. She’s How do we get money out of politics?

We as a community and we as a state have been a huge advisor and mentor to me – and to be united and understand that we aren’t go- a friend. And, I admire Rep. Omar, not an ening to back individuals with the most money or dorsement, but I admire her and her willingwe aren’t going to follow the money. Right now, ness to expand voter turnout in a safe district money is politics because people follow the by 37 percent because that’s going to be what’s money. We look for candidates with the most really key to us.

Rep. Ilhan and Moran are two people who money, who have fundraised the most expenses, who have the best ads, who have the best have truly invested in my race. Rep. Ilhan is the videos, and we don’t necessarily get back to sole reason that I had that push to run for office. She directly asked me about running for who has the best message.

So, if we can return to this idea or bring office, and I had not before. Just being both valiforth a new idea that money does not equal – dated by Rep. Moran (DFL) and then supported and money doesn’t not equal – success, then we [by Oman] helped me really understand this is can understand that we will no longer be fol- where I should be. lowing money. We will follow the people, we follow what the community wants, we will fol- What is the greatest impact your position will low our values as a state, and that’s what I will have on the African American community?

In the African American community, where be working to try and get back to.

We underestimate the effect of grassroots I am from, [the greatest impact] is that I’m organizing and the effect of conversation. It showing them that they can [do this] as well. costs me no money as a candidate to knock on I’m showing us, as a people, that we can be a someone’s door and say hello. None. And, that part of these conversations and we have every right to be. That’s a huge reason why I am runshould be the most important factor. ning for office in my area.

I am the first person of color to do so in my What do you say to people who say they do community, probably in like a 60-mile radinot like politics or politicians?

I ask them why not. In some capacities there us, and we’re there. Yes, there are Black peois a valid reason in our community when peo- ple in rural Minnesota. I want people to know ple feel they are not included in a conversation that…we are individuals that are working and to have a distaste [for] politics and political con- giving back to our economy and community, versations. And, then I would explain to them we’re parents, teachers, educators, nurses, labor that we are living in a day and age that it is not workers. We’re just in every part of what’s hapgoing to matter if you like politics or politicians pening in the rural economy. We are your farmers, we are your small business owners.

– you have to be a part of this conversation.

So, if we can continue to bring forth this new We just need to be echoing that message of, personally, if you don’t like something, if image of what rural Minnesota is, I think it’s you don’t necessarily see yourself in politics empowering for us as a people. And it’s not me right now, the only way that aspect is going to doing that – I am actually a very young person change is by speaking up and being willing to in the race here – it’s the community speaking have the conversation. Don’t dislike something up and saying, “Hey, I am more than a Black so much that you think it doesn’t matter or be- person in southwest Minnesota. I am all of these things.” come disengaged in what’s happening.

Just to be able to showcase that narrative and Decisions are still being made, laws are still being passed, regulations are still being put for- put it forward to challenge the idea of what repward. You’re only doing yourself a disservice resentation looks like is really important. [by disengaging] because then there is only a Interview conducted by Keith Schubert. group of people that continue to have this lack of accountability. And, if you feel like the issue Photos courtesy of Cheniqua Johnson is accountability in politics or accountability in politicians, you have to be willing to be part of the conversation and part of the discussion.

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“This (Black)mosphere,” he said, is an intentional space focused on “Black thought, Black Continued from page 1 people and Black concerns. This is a bridge for networking which we will leave, perhaps, with mentors and mentees. We want to have commuThe conference has also gained support from nity engagement initiatives from our conversasuch organizations as Black Visions Collective, tions. We want to engage community about a serthe NAACP Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter vice and really be with community shaping this Minneapolis (along with chapters in Los Angeles event as opposed to imposing an agenda. So, it’s and Louisville, Ky.) and Voices for Racial Justice. a different sort of power relationship.”

Jane Henderson, one of the conference orgaWhat does this ultimate Black utopia look like

“There is a whole wide range of possibilities of what it means to be Black – there isn’t just one way to be Black and to live a ‘Black’ life.” nizers and panel moderator, said the event also looks to dispel the myth of a monolithic Black America.

“We have real complex sets of identity and experiences,” said Henderson, challenging the narrative of only connecting Blacks to violence. “We are also artists and educators and so much more.

We are very complex, and we are created by a whole variety of things, so our Black identity isn’t quite as rigid. I hope participants take away [the idea] that there is a whole wide range of possibilities of what it means to be Black – that there isn’t just one way to be Black and to live a ‘Black’ life.”

Evol added that he hopes the conference will lead and inspire more connections and conversations to impact change by creating what he has coined a “(Black)mosphere.”

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Brunch” featuring Dr. Reatha Clark-King while celebrating Twin Cities’ leaders who are helping to empower and educate women and girls of color.

The afternoon’s events and panels featured a diverse array of people of color-focused health and beauty professionals and brands. Topics explored included fashion and the power of color, radical self-care and transformative healing, healthy eating, fitness, next level natural hair with Minneapolis’ own Beauty Lounge, and a fashion show produced by local hair extensions company HBW Extensions.

to him? It’s “a space for sound and color. What I mean by that is space where possibility and organic, convivial research can emerge and people can check in with each other and meditate on what the future can be and how we can shape [it].”

The “Because Black Life Conference” takes place Saturday, August 18, 10 am to 6 pm at the University of Minnesota Rarig Center, located at 330 21st Ave. South in Minneapolis.

For more information, visit www. blacktablearts.com.

Stephenetta Harmon welcomes reader responses at sharmon@spokesman-recorder.com.

“And, people typically don’t see Minnesota as a place where there’s plenty of [people of] color. But, we’re letting people know, yes, we are here, too, and we rock and we stand as one!”

Delaney conceded, however, that “Minneapolis is not popping into mind unless someone mentions Prince. But, I see us being in the limelight of one of the bigger, larger cities in terms of the natural hair movement,” said Delaney. “MinneapolisSt. Paul is really a great location in the country to where a natural hair movement in this ‘bold North’ could be huge.”

Hosting such beauty events not only puts Minnesota into a playing position to reap the benefits of $445 billion beauty industry (Black women spend $2 billion alone on hair care), but al-

“It’s important for us to learn that how we straighten or how we do our hair matters,” said Sherrlyn Thompson, SOBE founder and producer. “That’s why we have so many instances of fibroids and different cancers…because we have tried to subscribe to this European standard of beauty.

“I think events such as this help us find a place where we can find ourselves and find the people that look like us so that we can feel like we do have a family here,” Thompson said.

More than just weekend gatherings, the events also help change the narrative around beauty.

“For so long, we have been left out of the discussion of what beauty looks like,” said Thompson. “We have been given image

“For so long, we have been left out of the discussion of what beauty looks like.”

Attendees at the Shades of Beauty Expo

On Sunday, the second annual Twin Cities Hair and Beauty Expo (TCHBE) hosted its own celebration of Black beauty featuring keynote speaker and founder of Natural Woman magazine, Azizah Nubia, along with panel discussions and on-stage demos focused on natural hair and wellness.

The expo also included a Men’s Cave highlighting the resurging trend of men rocking beards and embracing self-care, featuring Houston White, owner of HWMR, a Minneapolisbased barber shop boutique, and brains behind the Black Excellence movement, and Mike McMillan, founder of Beard Game Matters.

Vendors and speakers traveling from Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Iowa, North Carolina and New York were surprised

by Minneapolis’ increasingly diverse community. Tephanie Delaney, co-founder of TCHBE, said Mike McMillan, who hails from Greensboro, N.C., was one of them.

“He [McMillan] said, ‘I didn’t know there were so many Black folks here,’ Delaney recalled.

so creates a place for women to discover and try out new indie brands and become more intentional about the products they purchase and use on their hair and skin.

While Black women outspend their counterparts nine to one in ethnic hair care products and are the major influencers when it comes to spending, research continues to show that Black hair products and cosmetics are some of the most toxic on the market. A 2016 report

by Black Women for Wellness revealed that many of our haircare products cause early-onset puberty, as well as respiratory and reproductive issues.

In May 2018, a new report, “Measurement of endocrine disrupting and asthma-associated chemicals in hair products used by Black women,” found chemicals in 18 commonly used hair products – including hot oil treatments, leave-in conditioners, relaxers and hair lotion – that have been linked to asthma and hormone disruption. Eightyfour percent of those detected chemicals weren’t even listed on the product labels.

Photo by Bianca Rhodes after image of blonde hair and blue eyes as a stereotype of beauty. And, when we don’t see ourselves reflected in that anywhere, then we tend to take a self-esteem hit and start to believe the hype that we are not worthy, that we’re not beautiful.

“But, no matter what’s your hair type, what your skin color is, you are beautiful. God made you beautiful.”

New York-based celeb stylist Monae Everett echoed those sentiments: “We have to tell our own stories. We have to create our own parameters, and we have to uplift and show each other what it’s like to be beautiful,” said Everett, who spoke on a TCHBE panel.

“Black people only make up 13 percent of this country, so while your family may look like you, the social and beauty cues that you’re getting from mainstream media and other places are not always as accepting as you’d like.” Everett told the MSR these hair and beauty events help to raise self-esteem and power.

“They help us love and embrace who we are.”

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Legals STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF HENNEPIN Estate of Wanda Rae Hawkins, aka Wanda R. Hawkins, and Wanda Hawkins,Decedent

DISTRICT COURT FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT PROBATE DIVISION Court File No. 27-PA-PR-18-677 NOTICE OF INFORMAL PROBATE OF WILL AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Notice is given that an application for informal probate of the Decedent’s Will, dated August 3, 2010, (“Will”), has been filed with the Registrar. The application has been granted.

Notice is also given that the Registrar has informally appointed Beth Ellen Tatur, whose address is 46350 Cedarcrest Trail, Harris, Minnesota, 55032, as personal representative of the Estate of the Decedent. Any heir, devisee or other interested person may be entitled to appointment as personal representative or may object to the appointment of the personal representative. Unless objections are filed with the Court (pursuant to Minnesota Statutes section 524.3-607) and the Court otherwise orders, the personal representative has full power to administer the Estate, including, after 30 days from the date of issuance of letters, the power to sell, encumber, lease or distribute real estate.

Any objections to the probate of the Will or appointment of the Personal Representative must be filed with this Court and will be heard by the Court after the filing of an appropriate petition and proper notice of hearing.

Notice is also given that (subject to Minnesota Statutes section 524.3-801) all creditors having claims against the Estate are required to present the claims to the personal representative or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this Notice or the claims will be barred Dated: 7-3-2018 Alonna J. Warns Registrar Dated: 7-3-2018 Sarah Lindahl-Pfieffer District Court Administrator Attorney for Personal Representative

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State of Minnesota County of Hennepin With Real Estate In Re the Marriage of: Ellen Debra Crayton, Petitioner and Anthony Van Luton, Respondent

Case Type: Dissolution Without Children District Court Fourth Judicial Court

Court File No. 27-FA-18-740 SUMMONS WITH REAL ESTATE ORDER FOR SERVICE BY ALTERNATIVE MEANS

THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: WARNING: YOUR SPOUSE (HUSBAND OR WIFE) HAS FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST YOU FOR DISSOLUTION OF YOUR MARRIAGE. A COPY OF THE PAPERWORK REGARDING THE LAWSUIT IS SERVED ON YOU WITH THIS SUMMONS. THIS SUMMONS IS AN OFFICIAL DOCUMENT FROM THE COURT THAT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS. READ THIS SUMMONS CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT, CONTACT AN ATTORNEY FOR LEGAL ADVICE. 1. The Petitioner, (your spouse) has filed a lawsuit against you asking for dissolution of your marriage (divorce). A copy of the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage is attached to this Summons. There should also be a copy of the Petitioner’s Financial Affidavit attached. 2. You must serve upon Petitioner and file with the Court a written Answer to the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage and your Financial Affidavit. You must pay the required filing fee. Answer forms and the Financial Affidavit form are available from the court administrator’s office. You must serve your Answer and your Financial Affidavit upon Petitioner within thirty (30) days of the date you were served with this Summons, not counting the day of service. If you do not serve and file your Answer and your Financial Affidavit, the Court may give your spouse everything he or she is asking for in the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage. 3. This proceeding involves, affects, or brings into question the real property located at the following address 6341 Ithaca Lane N, Maple Grove Minnesota 55311 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota, with the following legal description: Timber Bay Estate, Lot 4, Block 2, according to the recorded plat thereof.

NOTICE OF TEMPORARY RESTRAINING PROVISIONS: Under Minnesota law, service of this summons makes the following requirements apply to both parties to the action, unless they are modified by the Court or the proceeding is dismissed: (1) Neither party may dispose of any assets except (A) for the necessities of life or for the necessary generation of income or preservation of assets, (B) by an agreement of the parties in writing, or (C) for retaining counsel to carry on or to contest this proceeding. (2) Neither party may harass the other party. (3) All currently available insurance coverage must be maintained and continued without change in coverage or beneficiary designation. (4) Parties to a marriage dissolution proceeding are encouraged to attempt alternative dispute resolution pursuant to Minnesota law.

Alternative dispute resolution includes mediation, arbitration and other processes as set forth in the district court rules. You may contact the Court Administrator about resources in your area. If you cannot pay for mediation or alternative dispute resolution, in some counties, assistance may be available to you through a nonprofit provider of a court program. If you are a victim of domestic abuse or threats as defined in Minnesota statutes, Chapter 518B, you are not required to try mediation and you will not be penalized by the Court in later proceedings.

IF YOU VIOLATE ANY OF THESE PROVISIONS, YOU WILL BE SUBJECT TO SANCTIONS

BY THE COURT.

NOTICE OF PARENT EDUCATION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

Under Minnesota Statutes, Section 518.157, in a contested proceeding involving custody or parenting time of a minor child, the parties must begin participation in a parent education program that meets minimum standards promulgated by the Minnesota Supreme Court within 30 days after the first filing with the court. In some districts, parenting education may be required in all custody or parenting proceedings. You may contact the District Court Administrator for additional information regarding this requirement and the availability of parent education programs.

Date: 08/07/2018

Signed: Ellen Debra Crayton

Minnesota Spokesman Recorder, August 9, 16 & 23 2018

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STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY In Re: Estate of Lakia Monique Edmondson, Decedent

DISTRICT COURT SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT PROBATE COURT DIVISION Court File No.: 62-PR-18-586 NOTICE AND ORDER FOR HEARING ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY, DETERMINATION OF HEIRSHIP, APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

IT IS ORDERED AND NOTICE is given that on August 14, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. a hearing will be held in this Court at Ramsey County Courthouse, 15 West Kellogg Boulevard, Courtroom 1670, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55102 for the adjudication of intestacy, determination of heirship, and for the appointment of Carmal J. McCauley, whose address is 1256 Wilson Ave, Apt 210, St Paul, MN 55106 as personal representative of the Estate of the Decedent in an unsupervised administration.

Any objections to the petition must be filed with the Court prior to or raised at the hearing. If proper and if no objections are filed or raised, the personal representative will be appointed with full power to administer the Estate including the power to collect all assets, to pay all legal debts, claims, taxes and expenses, to sell real and personal property, and to do all necessary acts for the Estate.

Any charitable beneficiary may request notice of the probate proceeding be given to the attorney general pursuant to Minnesota Statute Section 501B.41, Subdivision 5.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that notice shall be given by publishing this Notice and Order as provided by law and by mailing a copy of this Notice and Order at least 14 days prior to the hearing date to all interested persons and persons who have filed a demand for notice.

Notice is also given that (subject to Minn. Stat. § 524.3-801) all creditors having claims against the Estate are required to present the claims to the personal representative or to the Court Administrator within four months after the date of this Notice or the claims will be barred.

BY THE COURT Michael F. Upton, Court Administrator Dated: July 10, 2018 By: Kelly Mickelson Deputy Court Administrator Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, August 9 & 16, 2018

STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF HENNEPIN

DISTRICT COURT JUDICIAL DISTRICT: FOURTH CASE TYPE: PERSONAL INJURY

Ashley White, Plaintiff . vs Dylan Archambault, Nathaniel Beulan, and SUMMONS Cheyene Uecker, Defendants.

THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO the above-named Defendants: 1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plainiff has started a lawsuit against you. The Plaintiff’s Complaint against you is attached to this summons. Do not throw these papers away. They are official papers that affect your rights. You must respond to this lawsuit even though it may not yet be filed with the Court and there may be no court file number on this summons.2. YOU MUST REPLY WITHIN 20 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. You must give or mail to the person who signed this summons a written response called an Answer within 20 days of the date on which you received this Summons. You must send a copy of your Answer to the person who signed this summons located at:Brantingham & Curtis, PA,2200 E Franklin Avenue, Suite 202,Minneapolis, MN 55404. 3. YOU MUST RESPOND TO EACH CLAIM. The Answer is your written response to the Plaintiff’s Complaint. In your Answer you must state whether you agree or disagree with each paragraph of the Complaint. If you believe the Plaintiff should not be given everything asked for in the Complaint, you must say so in your Answer. 4. YOU WILL LOSE YOUR CASE IF YOU DO NOT SEND A WRITTEN RESPONSE TO THE COMPLAINT TO THE PERSON WHO SIGNED THIS SUMMONS. If you do not Answer with 20 days, you will lose this case. You will not get to tell your side of the story, and the Court may decide against you and award the Plaintiff everything asked for in the complaint.

If you do not want to contest the claims stated in the complaint, you do not need to respond. A default judgment can then be entered against you for the relief requested in the complaint. 5. LEGAL ASSISTANCE. You may wish to get legal help from a lawyer. If you do not have a lawyer, the Court Administrator may have information about places where you can get legal assistance. Even if you cannot get legal help, you must still provide a written Answer to protect your rights or you may lose the case. 6. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION. The parties may agree or be ordered to participate in an alternative dispute resolution process under Rule 114 of the Minnesota General Rules of Practice. You must still send your written response to the Complaint even if you expect to use alternative means of resolving this dispute.

Dated: April 5, 2018 By: BRANTINGHAM & CURTIS, PA Megan M. Curtis,#0393601 2200 E Franklin Avenue, Suite 202 Minneapolis, MN 55404 (612) 339-9700 ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, August 2, 9 & 16, 2018

NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT LIEN FORECLOSURE SALE YOU ARE NOTIFIED THAT, 1. Default has occurred in the conditions of the Declaration of Condominium Number 294, Manor Homes of Edina Condominium, Hennepin County, Minnesota, by Virginia L. Martin and/or Vulcan Recoveries, LLC as fee owners of the below-described property subject to said Declarations.

2. Pursuant to the Declaration of Condominium Number 294, Manor Homes of Edina Condominium, filed in the Office of the Hennepin County Registrar of Titles as Document No. T1462210 and the Notice of Assessment Lien dated May 4, 2018, recorded in Hennepin County on May 8, 2018 as Document No. T05531009 and the Assignment of Assessment Lien dated June 29, 2018, recorded on July 19, 2018 as Document No. T05545805 a lien exists Bethesda Baptist Church Mount Olivet and Missionary for unpaid assessments fees incurred as of May 4, 2018 in the amount of $4,011.55.

Bethesda Baptist Church Mount Olivet Missionary 3. No action or proceeding has been instituted at law to recover the debt secured by the statBaptist Church utory lienBaptist or any partChurch thereof, or if an action has been instituted it has been dismissed or discharged prior to the commencement of these proceedings.

4. The holder of the lien has complied with all conditions to foreclose the lien for this debt secured by the assessment lien and foreclosure of said lien, and all notice and other requirements of applicable statutes.

5. As of the date of this notice the amount due is $4,491.54.

6. As of the date of this notice, the names of all parties that have been released from liability for Rev. Arthur Agnew, Pastor Rev. Arthur Agnew, Pastor the assessment lien are as follows: NONE. 7. Pursuant to the provisions of the Declaration of Condominium Number 294, Manor Homes At the Old Landmark At1118 the Old Landmark of Edina Condominium, filed in the Office of the Hennepin County Registrar of Titles as DocSo. 8th Street 1118 So. 8th recorded Street in Henneument 1462210 the Notice of Assessment Lien dated May 4,MN 2018, Mpls., 55404 Rev.No. James C. and Thomas, Pastor Mpls., MN 55404 James C. 8, Thomas, Pastor No. T05531009 and pinRev. County on May 2018 as Document the Assignment of Assessment 612-332-5904 451 West Central 612-332-5904 Central Lien dated451 JuneWest 29, 2018, recorded on July 19, 2018 www.bethesdamnonline.com as Document No. T05545805, the lien will www.bethesdamnonline.com St. Paul, MN 55103 email:bethesdamn@prodigy.net be foreclosed and theMN land 55103 located at 6983 Langford Court, Unit 33, Edina, Minnesota 55436, St. Paul, email:bethesdamn@prodigy.net in the County651-227-4444 of Hennepin, State of Minnesota, legally described as follows: 651-227-4444 Service Times: Detached No.9:30 33, Condominium No. 294, Manor Homes of Edina ChurchGarage School am Service Times: Church School 9:30 am Sunday School 10 am Condominium, Hennepin County, Minnesota Morning Worship Sunday School 10 am Morning Worship Sunday Worship 11:30 am will be sold by the sheriff of said county at public auction on September 20, 2018, at 10:00 Sunday Worship 11:30 am a.m., 8 & 10:45 am Wednesday at the Hennepin Minneapolis, Minnesota 8 &County 10:45Sheriff’s am Office, 350 South Fifth Street, Wednesday Prayer Service: Prayer 6 pm 55415 in said county Service: and state, to pay the debt then secured by saidMeeting, lien, including any additionPrayer Prayer Meeting, 6 pm Wednesday 7 that pmmay become due through al assessments and late fees the date of sale, along7with the costs, Adult Bible Class pm Wednesday 7 pm Adult Bible Class 7 pm attorneys fees and disbursements allowed by law. Children's Bible Class 7 pm "Welcome to Children's Bible Class 7 pm 8. The time allowed by law for redemption by the mortgagors, or mortgagor’s personal repre"Welcome Mt. Olivet Baptistto Church" sentatives or assigns is six (6) months after the date of said sale.

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STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF HENNEPIN Angel A. Fernandez, Petitioner vs Cindy Maribella Anariba,

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DISTRICT COURT JUDICIAL DISTRICT: FOURTH Court File No. 27-FA-15-546

NOTICE OF MOTION AND MOTION FOR CHANGE OF CUSTODY Spanish Interpreter Needed

WARNING: This is an important document that affects your rights. A court hearing has been scheduled, and the other party is asking for new court orders. If you do not understand this document, contact a lawyer for help. You must prepare a written response if you disagree with the other party’s requests and you want the Judge to consider your facts and information. You cannot simply attend the court hearing and tell the Judge your side of the situation.

1. A court hearing has been scheduled.

Date: November 14, 2018 Time: 11:00 a.m. Room: 637 Judge/Referee: Thomas Fraser Address: the Family Justice Center located at 110 S. 4th Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

2. The other party asked for this court hearing. This Notice of Motion and Motion and the Affidavit in Support of Motion were prepared by the other party. They explain what the other party is asking for and how the requests satisfy the law.

Dated: July 26, 2018 MN Spokesman-Recorder, August 16,23 & 30 A/1 Contract No. 19-037 INVITATION TO BID Sealed bids will be received by the Public Housing Agency (PHA) of the City of Saint Paul at 200 Arch Street East, St. Paul, Minnesota 55130 for SECURITY CAMERA UPGRADES AT PHA SITES, Contract No. 19-037, until 2:00 PM, Local Time, on SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud.

The security camera upgrade includes replacement of existing cameras, replacement of outdated wiring and installation of new cameras at 19 PHA-owned sites.

A complete set of bid documents are available by contacting Northstar Imaging at 651-6860477 or www.northstarplanroom.com, under public plan room, SECURITY CAMERA UPGRADES AT PHA SITES. Digital downloads are no charge, contact Northstar for hard copy pricing.

Bids must be accompanied by a 5% bid guarantee, Representations, Certifications and Other Statements of Bidders Form, a non-collusive affidavit, and EEO/AAP submittals.

The successful bidder will be required to furnish performance and payment bonds.

PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD on August 28, 2018 at 8:30 AM at 200 East Arch Street, St Paul, MN in the Community Room. A tour of the building will follow.

The PHA reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any informalities in the bidding.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AGENCY

MIKE SILVAN PROJECT LEADER (651) 292-6144

Minnesota Spokesman Recorder, August 16, 2018 A/1 Contract No. 19-008 INVITATION TO BID Sealed bids will be received by the Public Housing Agency of the City of Saint Paul at 200 E. Arch Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55130 for Therapeutic Walk-In Bathtubs at Neill, Cleveland, Iowa, Dunedin, Wilson, Ravoux, Seal and Montreal Hi-Rises, Contract No. 19-008, until 2:00 P.M., Local Time, on September 6, 2018, at which time they will be publicly opened and read aloud.

The THERAPEUTIC WALK-IN BATHTUBS AT NEILL, CLEVELAND, IOWA, DUNEDIN, WILSON, RAVOUX, SEAL AND MONTREAL HI-RISES, is a project removal of existing bathtubs and installing a new walk-in bathtub, including all plumbing, electrical, floor finishes as needed.

A complete set of bid documents are available by contacting Northstar Imaging at 651-6860477 or www.northstarplanroom.com , public plan room under Therapeutic Walk-In Bathtubs at Neill, Cleveland, Iowa, Dunedin, Wilson, Ravoux, Seal and Montreal Hi-Rises, contract 19008. Digital downloads are no charge, contact Northstar for hard copy prices. Plans will be available after Tuesday, August 14, 2018.

Bids must be accompanied by a 5% bid guarantee, Representations, Certifications and Other Statements of Bidders Form, a non-collusive affidavit, and EEO/AAP submittals. The successful bidder will be required to furnish both a satisfactory performance bond and a separate payment bond.

PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ON August 23, 2018, AT 10:00 AM AT THE MT. AIRY HI-RISE COMMUNITY ROOM, 200 EAST ARCH STREET, ST. PAUL. A tour of the project addresses will follow.

The PHA reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any informalities in the bidding.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AGENCY

JIM ROONEY PROJECT LEADER (651) 292-6083 Minnesota Spokesman Recorder, August 16, 2018

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Fitz Continued from page 10 No, Woods did not win Sunday. He had two lip-outs on putts and one that hung on the edge of the cup. However, his desire, intensity, and heroic effort to win has inspired a new legion of golf fans. Woods shot 70-66-66-64 for 266 total. It was the lowest of his career in a Major.

Larry Fitzgerald can be heard weekday mornings on KMOJ Radio 89.9 FM at 8:25 am, on WDGY-AM 740 Monday and Friday at 9:10 am, and at www.

Gamedaygold.com. He also commentates on sports 7-8 pm on Almanac (TPT channel 2). Follow him on Twitter at FitzBeatSr. Larry welcomes reader responses to info@larry-fitzgerald.com, or visit www.Larry-Fitzgerald.com.

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Tiger Woods oh so close to a Major win

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iger Woods has been so successful in his career despite some obstacles — well-documented surgeries, injuries, personal life issues and setbacks. He’s now 42 years old with 14 Majors and 79 career wins and is the first billionaire ($1.7) athlete in sports history. Today so many love to talk about him in the past tense, highlighting what he has not done recently, like win golf tournaments.

It’s been well documented that Woods has never won any of his career 14 Major Golf Championships when he has had to come from behind. This was the case on Sunday when he started the final round four shots back of the tournament leader Brooks Koepka. I’m a firm believer that the player who plays the best over four days usually wins.

pars despite failing to hit any fairways on the front nine.

Woods shot a final round 64, tied for the lowest score of the day and the lowest score of his remarkable career in the final round of a Major. Nobody other than, say, Michael Jordan, moves the meter from a TV ratings standpoint like Woods. Golf fans on CBS were glued to the incredible drama of Wood’s will and determination, which have been staples of his career.

Again, Woods did not win; he last won a Major in 2008. In the Open Championship in July he rallied on the final day as well, and actually had the lead in the final round on the back nine, but then faltered.

He finished sixth at the Open Championship, but on Sunday, Woods never got the lead. He closed to within one shot on the back nine, but long-hitting Koepka, the newest golf superstar, never faltered and maintained his lead.

Koepka has now won three of the last seven Majors he’s played in. He missed the Masters in April with an injured left wrist. Still, he joins elite company — Gene Sarazen 1922, Ben Hogan 1948, Jack Nicklaus 1980 and Woods 2000 — as the only players to win the U.S. Open and PGA Championship in the same calendar year.

Koepka is also just the seventh player to win three Majors before the age of 29, following Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Woods and Jordan Spieth.

Woods has battled back from four back surgeries this year.

Tiger draws a crowd.

Photo courtesy of Larry Fitzgerald He’s climbed from number 1,066 in world ranking to now numKoepka was that guy, shooting 69-63- ber 26. He’s likely clinched a spot on the 66-66 for a 264 total and the lowest PGA 2018 U.S. Ryder Cup team that plays EuChampionship record score. Woods had rope in September in Ireland. He won the huge crowd in St. Louis at Bellerive $1,188,000 for his solo second in the PGA Country Club in an absolute frenzy with Championship. eight birdies and spectacular shots saving ■ See Fitz on page 9

Forfeited game highlights travel issues in WNBA

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ome say bad publicity is better than no publicity at all, but when it reinforces existing negative notions about the league and its players, it is something the WNBA can ill afford.

The league announced in an August 7 statement that the August 3 Las Vegas-Washington canceled contest was ruled a forfeit “because the Aces failed to appear for the game.” The Las Vegas players decided not to play the game after their unbelievable but true 25-hour trek from Sin City to the nation’s capital that began on the day before they were to play the Mystics and ended just a few hours before tip-off.

This columnist once, when returning from the WNBA All-Star Game in Connecticut, took over a day to get back home, stuck in Chicago for several hours. I then got on the delayed plane around 2 am, only to have the plane turn around and return to Chicago a couple of hours later. I got the last seat on a flight that sat on the tarmac for two hours before departing, finally arriving in the Cities that afternoon.

There have been 144 college football games forfeited between 1910 and 1998. There have been three MLB forfeits (1954, 1977 and 1979) and an ABA playoff game forfeit in 1968 because of condensation on the floor after the game was moved to a hockey arena.

Sports radio, the typical women’s sports naysayers and others unsympathetically took the Aces to the woodshed for their decision not to play the game, which forced Washington to refund tickets and offered fans that night tickets to another game. It was the league’s first forfeited game in 22 years.

The Aces players reportedly offered as a prime reason for not play-

“This league, with commercial travel, should never have back-to-back games.”

But I didn’t have to play a game, as Las Vegas had to do. Their unexpected itinerary included three delays before the scheduled 1:13 pm flight was cancelled at 10 pm. The team later took a 1:30 am flight to Dallas and then divided into three groups for three separate flights to D.C., all arriving late afternoon for a game scheduled to start at 7 pm. The Aces never made it to the arena.

ing the game that being up over a day without proper sleep and rest put them at risk for injuries. Washington Coach Mike Thibault complained, “You have an obligation to the fans… If you’re there and in the city, you should show up and play.”

Longtime NBA coach and former player Doc Rivers said in a 2016 CBS Sports article that he once contemplated forfeiting a game because

Suspended in the limbo between college play and the pros

his players were “lethargic and noncompetitive” after a long stretch of games.

Dallas’ Skylar Diggins-Smith recently tweeted on this season’s crammed schedule, “This league, with commercial travel, should never have back-to-back games. Even in a year where we’re cramming 34 games into 93 days.”

“We’ve all had to deal with [travel problems],” Seattle 15-year veteran Sue Bird recently told SB Nation.

Another glaringly overlooked fact in the latest shaming and blaming is that NBA teams travel on chartered flights and are not allowed to play a game on the same day if they traveled across two time zones. The WNBA players, on the other hand, must travel commercial whether they are flying from China to New York or wherever.

This latest travel nightmare hopefully will lead to a serious reevaluation of the league’s current travel rules. Otherwise, “It’s going to happen again,” Bird predicts.

Charles Hallman welcomes reader responses to challman@spokesmanrecorder.com. Graphic courtesy of MGNOnline.

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Recent hoops grad awaits word on her new overseas team Sports odds and ends PreP Scene

By Charles Hallman Senior Staff Writer Janay Morton, after a very productive collegiate career at two schools, is now looking forward to continuing her hooping as a professional athlete. The Brooklyn Park native concluded her athletic eligibility this past spring and graduated from the University of Nebraska.

She transferred to Nebraska a couple of years earlier after studying and playing three seasons at Eastern Michigan, where she scored over 1,300 points and was among the Mid-American Conference steals leaders.

Morton was a four-time all-conference performer at Osseo, where she scored over 1,000 points.

Not many athletes seamlessly go from a mid-major to a Power Five conference, but the 5’-10” guard did when she went from the MAC to the Big Ten. “The transition going from the MAC to the Big Ten was a huge one,” Morton admitted. “The competitive level is different and higher at the Big Ten level, but I loved it. It was a fun [transition].

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Janay Morton (right) working with youth campers at Clyde Turner Basketball Camp in St. Paul Photo by Charles Hallman

Morton says. “My coaching staff helped me out with players they had who had agents that they like. [This involved] contacting a lot of people and asking a lot of questions on the ins and outs, do’s and don’ts, of finding

“You got to have persistence. If you want it bad enough, you will go after it.”

“The journey getting there took a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, a lot of repetition,” Morton said, describing her life as a college athlete. “It wasn’t just me involved in my success – God put a lot of people [in her life] to help push me along and give me the resources that I needed to be successful.

There are so many people I can give a huge thank you for giving me the opportunity to play college basketball.”

Morton’s next goal in life, to play pro ball, required that she select the right agent, that someone who will not only represent her as a player but also look out for her best interests as a person.

“I called a lot of alumni at Nebraska,”

an agent.” Morton eventually signed with Houston-based 610 Sports Management.

“In the end, [an agency] that had enough interest to give me the best opportunity, that I felt is the person I end up choosing,” she said. “They have done a good job helping me. It was someone who had my best interests [in mind] and someone who can offer me the most. Someone who will help build my name, and if I do have a brand in the future, my brand as well.”

But for now, it’s the waiting – Morton is working out this summer and working with kids at basketball camps while she awaits word of where she might be playing overseas this fall and winter.

Other than on a mission trip, Morton has never lived overseas, and she is anxiously looking forward to it, albeit with mixed emotions. “I’m definitely excited, but nervous at the same time. I don’t know how it is going to be basketball-wise. I will have to do a lot of adjusting and hoping my teammates and the team dynamics are good.”

Most foreign teams only allow a maximum of two U.S. players on its rosters. Depending on where she might end up, “I may be the lone American” on her new club, Morton observed.

While she waits for her next hoopin’ opportunity, Morton offers advice for young people: “You got to have persistence. You might get knocked around in the process and things aren’t going to go your way. If you want it bad enough, you will go after it. It’s not how you start but how you finish.

“That’s what I always kept in mind,” Morton said.

Charles Hallman welcomes reader responses to challman@spokesman-recorder.com.

Former Columbia Heights boys’ basketball standout Zach Lofton – who starred at New Mexico State University last season after stints at Quakerdale Prep, San Jacinto College, Illinois State, University of Minnesota and Texas Southern University — recently signed with the NBA’s Detroit Pistons.

The 6’-4” guard averaged nearly 11 points and close to three rebounds per game in the 2018 NBA Summer League, and scored 21 in his final game.

Lofton averaged 19.8 points per game for New Mexico State, leading them to the NCAA tournament.

He also led Texas Southern to the 2017 tournament while earning Southwestern Conference Player of the Year Honors.

As a senior in high school, Lofton led Columbia Heights to a runner-up finish to Orono in the Class 3A title game in 2011.

Holloman and Aligbe named All-Americans Local ninth-grade basketball talents Trejuan Holloman and Prince Aligbe served notice that the state of Minnesota has talent worthy of national recognition after earn-

ing All-American honors at the CP3 Rising Stars Camp held in Greensboro, NC last week.

The camp – to which the nation’s top high school prospects are invited – is facilitated by NBA All-Star and Houston Rockets point guard Chris Paul.

Holloman and Aligbe played so well that both were named to the CP3 Dunk Dog All-American game. Aligbe’s Team Black defeated Holloman’s Team Red, but both showed that they will be forces to reckon with for years to come.

Holloman started as an eighth grader last year for Minneapolis North, contributing to a City Conference championship and Twin Cities title run for the Polars while averaging 10.5 points per game.

The 6’-2” point guard played with Howard Pulley this summer.

Aligbe averaged 8.8 points per game as an eighth-grader this past season for Class 2A state champion Minnehaha Academy.

He contributed to their 2017 state crown while in seventh grade as well.

The 6’-5” forward played AAU ball with Mentality Minnesota.

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