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No. 23

REVITALIZING a historical Black presence

Can Minneapolis restore to its ‘cultural districts’ what decades of neglect have diminished?

FIRST OF A THREE-PART STORY

By Abdi Mohamed Contributing Writer

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Since these areas are home to most of resources to be distributed equitably.

The cultural districts are also a part of the city’s Communities of Color who have historically been left behind, city the City of Minneapolis’s Comprehensive leaders have expressed their goal in tar- 2040 Plan, which aims to shape how ■ See DISTRICTS on page 5 geting these districts as waypoints for

lans around Minneapolis’ eight designated cultural districts are ramping up as city leaders plan to utilize these areas as part of their recovery strategy for last year’s civil unrest. The riots that ensued soon after the police murder of George Floyd led to millions of dollars in damages across the metro area, leaving Communities of Color reeling from the costs. Revitalized cultural districts could, city leaders believe, help restore what was lost in the destruction.

In August 2020, the Minneapolis City Council approved an ordinance that established eight new cultural districts in Minneapolis that fall along some of the city’s major corridors. These include 38th Street South, Cedar Ave. South, Central Ave., East Lake Street, Franklin Ave. East, Councilmember Andrea Jenkins stands at the front of her door just after sunset West Broadway, and Lowry Ave. North. looking out onto her neighborhood in South Minneapolis.

Keeping diverse workers well

A human resources pro shares tips on how it can be done—even in a pandemic

By Julie Gordon Contributing Writer

Minneapolis native Dr. Tonya Jackman Hampton, senior vice president and chief people and cultural officer, joined Hennepin Healthcare just over a year ago amidst the pandemic. Recently named one of the Twin Cities’ 100 people to know in Dr. Tonya Jackman Hampton 2022, Dr. Hampton (TJH) Hennepin Healthcare shared with the MSR her perspective on how her role and the organization continue to navigate the challenges facing their 7,000+ employees.

MSR: Congratulations on your most recent award. Was this position a new role at Hennepin Healthcare, and how is it positioned differently than a typical Chief Human Resources Officer?

TJH: The role existed as a Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) before I was hired. In my role, I am responsible for the transitional human resource-related work—talent acquisition, benefits, ■ See HAMPTON on page 5

MLK Day set as deadline for Senate filibuster vote At stake are voter suppression laws in states across the country

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent

supermajority requirements for legislation, having learned firsthand of such a requirement’s defects under the ArtiThe U.S. Senate will vote by January cles of Confederation,” he continued.

Although the Senate is evenly 17 on whether the chamber will adopt new rules to circumvent the draconian split with 50 Democrats and 50 filibuster and enable debate on voting Republicans, Sen. Schumer’s party rights and social justice bills, Major- controls the majority, with Vice ity Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) President Kamala Harris positioned to cast any tie-breaking vote. announced on Monday, January 3.

Still, a significant hurdle remains “The Senate was designed to protect the political rights of the minority in in the senator’s own party. the chamber, through the promise of debate and the opportunity to amend. Democratic opposition West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe But over the years, those rights have been warped and contorted to Manchin has remained steadfast in obstruct and embarrass the will of opposition to any changes to the filithe majority—something our Found- buster, a centuries-old rule rooted in ers explicitly opposed,” Sen. Schumer racism. Sen. Manchin has shot down a swath of his party’s agenda, making wrote in a letter to his colleagues.

“The Constitution specified what mea- it difficult for President Joe Biden and sures demanded a supermajority—includ- others to fulfill campaign promises ing impeachment or the ratification of to faithful voters, particularly in the treaties. But they explicitly rejected ■ See FILIBUSTER on page 5

“The fight for the ballot is as old as the Republic.”

Improving the lives of workers and renters

By R.B. King Contributing Writer The Minneapolis City Council will have a majority of BIPOC members starting when the newly elected members take their seats in January. Over the next few weeks the MSR will give our readers an opportunity to get to know them and their thoughts on the pressing issues in the city, especially as these relate to Communities of Color.

This week we talk with Ward 10 newcomer Aisha Chughtai (AC): MSR: Can you tell our readers who you are, where you come from, and what drives you?

AC: My name is Aisha Chughtai. I’m a renter. I live in the Whittier neighborhood in South Minneapolis. I’m a union organizer. I work for the Service Employees International Union here in Minnesota. I work in our political department.

I am the firstborn, the eldest daughter in a Muslim immigrant family. My parents are Pakistani immigrants. That’s who I am. I’m going to represent, starting January

working for anyone. And not only is it not working for anyone, kind of regardless of where you live, it is inflicting disproportionate harm onto Black, Brown and Indigenous people.

I supported ballot question three because, again, I’m a renter. I represent a majority renter community, and I know that renters are experiencing MSR: What were your stances on severe economic insecurity. I also the three ballot questions that know that 80% of the rental property came up in this last election? in the city of Minneapolis is owned by AC: I voted no on ballot question 15 corporations, and that rent control one, voted yes on ballot question is a check on their monopoly. two, and I voted yes on ballot question three.

MSR: What’s your priority for the On ballot question one I voted no, upcoming term? because I really saw that it was…driv- AC: I want to spend the next couple en by and overwhelmingly supported of years working to advance a strong by the wealthiest and most power- anti-displacement and pro-tenant ful people in our city. I really saw, I agenda. Making sure that we have still do, as a bad faith attempt by the strong rent control that is effecwealthiest, most powerful people in tive, that is centered in the needs of our city to consolidate power around renters, and that prioritizes keeping a mayor that will always be account- people in their homes and in the able to them. communities that they love.

I supported question two because We have to pass stronger eviction I know that the system of public protections. We need legal resources safety that we have right now is not ■ See CHUGHTAI on page 5 represented by a renter. Ensuring that the folks who live here and share this experience of not knowing what the cost of their housing is going to be for the long term is really important to me. And it was really important to the ward. It was the thing that I heard from folks that resonated the most with them.

Aisha Chughtai

3, the 10th Ward here in Minneapolis, which includes the Whittier, Lowry Hill East, South Uptown, East Bde Mka Ska, and East Harriet neighborhoods.

I know that the stakes are really, really high today for renters, for people living in poverty, for Black, Brown and Indigenous people. It’s why I ran for office, and improving the lives of workers and renters in this city is

Submitted photo what drove me to public service.

MSR: What makes you a good council member for your ward?

AC: Eighty percent of this ward is renters, people who rent their homes. For context, Minneapolis is saying [they have overall] just about 50%… Ward 10 is an overwhelmingly renter community.

This ward has never actually been

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Opinion Biden is bringing greater diversity to our federal courts His nominees trump Trump’s

By Ben Jealous

‘Listen to Black women’ by electing them

By Kelly Dittmar and Glynda C. Carr “Listen to Black women,” they say. Support Black women, they tweet. The praise of Black women in recent years is evident in words, but public statements and hashtags must translate into action. And that action should include efforts to elect Black women.

Seven years ago, our organizations joined forces to spotlight the status of Black women in American politics.

Since our first report, we have seen—and hopefully contributed to—great progress.

In that time, 17 new Black women were elected to Congress, including the second Black woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate and the first Black women to represent their states from Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, New Jersey, Utah and Washington.

The number of Black women state legislators has risen by nearly 50%.

Black women have made tremendous strides in representation as big-city mayors, with 12 Black women taking office for the first time as mayors in the top 100 most populous cities from mid2014 to present.

Today, Black women are mayors of eight major cities: Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Washington, DC. Just two weeks ago, Elaine O’Neal was elected as mayor of Durham, North Carolina; she will take office in early December.

And, of course, with Ka-

mala Harris’ 2020 election as vice president, a Black woman now serves in the secondhighest position in the U.S. government.

Progress for Black women in elective office is not measured in numbers alone. The effects of Black women’s political representation are evident in both disrupting White- and male-dominated institutions and making policy change.

Research at the state legislative and congressional levels has shown how Black women’s identities shape policy contributions and behaviors in ways that give voice to underrepresented groups and perspectives.

Just this year, Representatives Lauren Underwood (D-IL) and Alma Adams (D-AL), with Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), have pushed for “momnibus” legislation to address the crisis in Black maternal health. And in late summer, Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) slept on the stairs of the U.S. Capitol as part of a relentless push to extend the eviction moratorium—which disproportionately affects Black and Brown Americans.

Research demonstrates how Black women are among those women more likely to be discouraged from running for office, confront disparities in campaign fundraising, navigate distinct politics of appearance, and are evaluated by voters and media alike in ways that both rely on and perpetuate damaging stereotypical biases.

Recent reporting has also revealed more than ever before the abuse that Black women face as both can-

didates and officeholders, abuse that is often rooted in the confluence of racism and misogyny and leads not only to personal harm but also to decisions to abandon political careers.

Just two Black women have ever served in the U.S. Senate, and there are no Black women senators serving today amidst key debates over the economy, infrastructure, the environment, voting rights, criminal justice, and immigration.

Black women also hold just six of 310 statewide elective executive offices in the U.S., roles that are key to shaping state policy agendas and outcomes. Just 17 Black women have ever held statewide elected executive offices in 14 states, and no Black woman has ever served as governor.

The 2022 election offers some opportunities to address these gaps. With more than a year before Election Day, the number of Black women who have announced major-party candidacies for the U.S. Senate has already exceeded the previous record of 13.

Recent reports also show that Black candidates are faring especially well in Senate fundraising in the 2022 cycle. While summary numbers might mask persistent hurdles, these data indicate that Black candidates might be better financially positioned for electoral success in the next election.

At least five Black women have announced major-party gubernatorial candidacies in this cycle, one short of the previous high. And there remains time for more Black women to step forward, including former Georgia House Minority Leader and organizer Stacey Abrams (D-GA), who is the only Black woman who has ever won a major-party gubernatorial nomination.

Candidacies neither ensure nomination nor election, but it’s a start. These Black women—and others who are launching political campaigns—are doing what they can to create a more representative democracy.

But their success relies on others, including those who issued public directives to support Black women over the past 18 months. You can support Black women on the campaign trail with your time and your money, and you can support Black women at the ballot box with your vote.

You can listen to Black women by ensuring they have seats at policymaking tables where their voices, expertise and perspectives can inform substantive change. It’s time to translate words into actions.

Kelly Dittmar is an associate

One of the most important reasons to vote Donald Trump out of the White House was to stop him from packing our federal courts with even more anti-voting-rights, anti-equality, pro-corporate judges.

Stopping the flood of bad Trump judges was a huge accomplishment for every organizer and voter who helped elect Joe Biden as president.

And that’s only part of the good news. President Biden is making history with the most diverse set of judicial nominees ever.

President Trump’s judicial nominees were overwhelmingly White men, often young and unqualified. They were almost always picked for their commitment to a right-wing judicial ideology that makes it harder for millions of Americans to count on the courts for justice. Thanks to Trump and his Republican enablers in the Senate, we will be dealing with hundreds of those judges for years to come.

Elections matter. Right now, instead of more judges handpicked by right-wing legal activists and their corporate allies, President Biden is making good on his promise to bring greater diversity to our federal courts. Biden is naming far more brilliant Black judges and women judges than any other president—including Barack Obama.

Let’s look at some numbers, because they are impressive.

More than 30 percent of Biden’s judicial nominees so far have been Black. Fewer than five percent of Trump’s

judicial picks were Black.

More than a quarter of Biden’s judicial nominees have been Black women. Under Trump, it was less than one percent. In fact, almost half of President Biden’s judicial nominees are women of color.

Biden has been in office for less than a year, and he has already doubled the number of Black women judges on the circuit courts—the highest level of federal courts below the Supreme Court. Trump named zero Black judges to the circuit courts; nearly 40 percent of Biden’s circuit court nominees have been Black.

There’s also a lot more diversity in Biden nominees’ life experiences and professional backgrounds. They aren’t all corporate lawyers and law professors. Almost one-third of them have had experience as public defenders.

Some of them have worked at respected civil rights organizations. Some have devoted their legal careers to protecting and representing workers.

One started her career at the Legal Aid Society.

This is how we get federal courts that represent all of us, not just the most privileged and powerful. And that brings us back to elections. President Biden has been able to get his nominees confirmed—more lifetime judges at this point in his term in office since Gerald Ford—because voters in Georgia elected Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff.

If Republicans still held a Senate majority, Mitch McConnell would be slow-walking and stopping Biden’s judicial nominees. When Trump was in

power, McConnell laughed and bragged about how he kept so many of President Obama’s nominees from getting confirmed so that Trump would have lots of vacancies to fill.

McConnell would love to regain the power to block Biden’s judicial nominees. He would love to return to his practice of refusing to schedule hearings and votes on even the most qualified judges.

He would love to abuse his power to keep hundreds of judicial seats vacant in the hopes that Trump or some other Republican will take back the White House in 2024. And bring back the flood of White, right-wing men determined to impose their ideology on the federal courts and on all of us.

We can’t let that happen.

Let’s praise the good work being done by the Biden White House and Senate Democrats. Let’s thank them for bringing balance and diversity and a commitment to equal justice for all to the federal courts. And let’s work as hard as we can to keep the Senate and White House in Democratic hands in 2022 and 2024.

Ben Jealous serves as president of People For the American Way. Jealous has decades of experience as a leader, coalition builder, campaigner for social justice and seasoned nonprofit executive. In 2008, he was chosen as the youngest-ever president and CEO of the NAACP. He is a graduate of Columbia University and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and he has taught at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.

Creativity is the heart of nonviolent resistance

By Sebastian Santos and Tom Hastings

create are illimitable. Here are a few examples: Reconnecting to cultural roots, bringing up cultural significance in movements.

Being blunt, yet courteous through sending messages, letters, or even continuous casual conversation.

Create signs or art pieces, no matter how simple, to signify a movement and be easily spread.

Media productions (theatre, music, film, etc.) to broaden scope of movements.

Sometimes the desire for change may organically start at a basic level and then snowball into more creative and abundant endeavors. One small effort may be the spark needed to inspire a great deal more.

There is no limit to our capacity to create, to resist, and to discover how to connect.

Or perhaps our limits are only our willingness to use our enormous imaginations in service of our collective future, peace and prosperity.

There is a force in the world that was never considered as a force in our human story until Mohandas Gandhi discovered it 116 years ago: the power of nonviolent resistance.

We humans have studied war for perhaps 11,000 years or more. We have colleges and massive industries devoted to that destructive ability of our species. What about the opposite, the creative ability, the constructive conflict?

We have been thinking about nonviolence as a way to wage struggle for barely a century or so. Yes, it’s been a part of all great religions as a nice way to be, as a preferential path, but none thought about how to make it work, about ways to make it work better than violence, until Gandhi.

His basic pivot in thinking has been adopted and adapted by many now, from some of the liberation struggles in Africa, to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, to the Philippines, to Eastern and Central Europe, to South America and more.

While there are many ways to respond to danger—flight, fight, surrender, bluster (posing or bluffing)—the way of nonviolence is assertive resis-

tance. Assertive resistance is not running away, nor is it an attempt to crush another, nor is it abject surrender, nor is it trying to appear dangerous and threatening.

The core elements of assertive resistance are discipline and creativity. Together they comprise the basis of strategic nonviolent struggle.

It works. Recent studies document the relatively high success rate of nonviolent insurgency. Discipline is obviously crucial.

So is creativity. Arguably, without creativity, social movements are likely to fail.

The arts across all mediums bring life and attention to civil society campaigns. Music, film, literature, artwork, and even video games are platforms to address or disrupt conflict.

They can generate sympathy and create allies.

These creative arts help support nonviolent campaigns that have been able to successfully resist an array of problems, such as injustice, environmental harms, and levels of violence even up to war.

If one were to dive into the recorded instances of creativity in nonviolent resistance as well as its cultural significance, the richness of our human spirit synthesizing the courage to resist with the heart to

professor of political science at Rutgers-Camden and director of research and scholar at the Center for American Women

and Politics, a unit of the Eagle- co-founder of Higher Heights ton Institute of Politics at Rut- for America. gers University.

This commentary was edited Glynda C. Carr is CEO and for length.

Sebastian Santos, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is a graduate of Portland State University and is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Lewis and Clark College. Tom H. Hastings, Ed.D. is the director of the PeaceVoice program.

January 6-12, 2022

Arts & Culture Gone but not forgotten

Notable Black figures who left us in 2021 drug overdose; General Colin Powell, 84, passed away on October 18 due to complications of COVID-19.

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

– Mahatma Gandhi From lives cut short to violence or disease to elders who passed peacefully in their sleep, 2021 saw its share of painful goodbyes. Here we’ve highlighted just a few notable national figures who left this world in 2021, but whose legacies will continue to live on.

(Top row, l-r): Baseball and civil rights giant Henry “Hammerin’ Hank” Aaron died on January 22 at age 86; pioneering movie icon Cicely Tyson, 96, passed away from heart problems on January 28; Mary Wilson of The Supremes fame passed away on February 8 at age 76; Vernon Jordan, the former National Urban League president and civil rights icon, died on March 1 at 85; rap icon DMX, whose real name was Earl Simmons, of a sudden heart attack. died of a heart attack on April (Middle row, l-r): Veteran 9; Paul Mooney, 79, known as actor Clarence Williams of the “godfather of Black com“Mod Squad” and “Purple Rain” edy,” died at home on May 19

(Bottom row, l-r): Ronnie Wilson, 73, multi-instrumentalist who founded the famed Gap Band with brother Charlie Wilson, died of a stroke on November 3; Memphis rapper Young Dolph, 36, born Robert Thornton Jr., was shot and killed on November 17; pioneering designer Virgil Abloh passed away at age 41 on November 28 after privately battling cancer; legendary golfer Lee Elder, the first Black player to compete in the Masters, died on November 28 at age 87; trailblazing feminist, author, professor and social activist bell hooks, 69, also known as Gloria Jean Watkins, died of kidney failure on December 15; Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 90, who earned died on July 16 due to com- the moniker “the nation’s plications of diabetes; TV and conscience” for fighting South film actor Michael K. Williams, Africa’s apartheid, died after a 57, of “The Wire” fame died on long battle with prostate canSeptember 6 of an accidental cer on December 26.

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‘We Are Meant to Rise’

By Mary Turck Contributing Writer

and a few seem too abstract for my understanding.

Overall, the wealth of stories, poetry, and perspectives In “We Are Meant to Rise,” leaves me filled with gratiMinnesota indigenous writers tude. and writers of color reflect on Since 2016, and espeand react to the year 2020: cially since the January 6 the year that began the COinsurrection, the continuing VID pandemic, a year ripped and accelerating manifestaapart by the brutal police murtions of racism, attacks on der of George Floyd, a year of voting rights, and threats to isolation and uprising. democracy, that question of Carolyn Holbrook, one of national identity looms ever the editors of this anthology, is also the founder of larger. Attempts to rewrite More Than A Single Story. our history and to outlaw the She explains that the name teaching of history in schools “is loosely based on Nigerian highlight the racist and xenovelist Chimamanda Ngozi nophobic quest to define our Adichie’s well-known TED national identity as white and Talk, ‘The Danger of a Single European and Christian.

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we are as a nation. And now, for many, each day in America, a stranger walks into our village, or we are strangers walking into someone else’s village.”

Reading these words, I remember the hysterical and entirely invented rants about Sharia law in Minneapolis and “no-go areas”: neighborhoods where I regularly went in prepandemic days, unrecognizable in the racist ravings of the rancid right.

I recall the visit of one particular pair of provocateurs, and their “we’re under siege” internet broadcast from a street corner blocks away from my house—and kittycorner from one of the oldest, wealthiest, and Whitest, golf clubs in the state.

“We Are Meant To Rise” offers a different vision of past and present, unflinching in its gaze on our national and local sins but ultimately affirming hope and possibility.

After reading the whole book, I return again to the promise Mura’s introduction: Courtesy of University of Minnesota Press “But our present-day encounters with our fellow

Americans can involve a very different process. We can look at the stranger as a fellow human being, a fellow traveler, a fellow American.

We can choose to learn from the stranger, learn a different language, a different culture, a different history. And we can comfort ourselves by the fact that this process has always been occurring in America. And in so many cases, such encounters and the exchanges they have catalyzed, have only made us stronger, more resilient, more creative and innovative, more capable of making connection with the rest of the world outside America—that is, if we let that stranger into our village, into our nation, and indeed, into our hearts.”

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Mary Turck welcomes reader responses to maryturck@gmail. com.

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Health & Wellness

How to optimize your brain’s functioning

Dr. Sharon Luster Dykes Guest Columnist Good health results in good brain function, sustained energy output, and physical resilience. So how do we engage in healthy behaviors to ensure we optimize our health status? Continue reading to find a strategy, adapted from the Center for Creative Leadership, outlining four key pillars that are instrumental in achieving this goal.

Fueling your brain For proper brain function, the brain consumes 20% of total oxygen consumption.

It utilizes 25% of the body’s total glucose use and 15% of the body’s cardiac output. As a fatty organ, the brain is also susceptible to the ravages of oxidative stress, defined as the imbalance between the systemic manifestation of

organizing information into permanent memory. To maximize the amount of REM sleep, it is recommended to sleep seven to eight hours per night.

Lack of adequate sleep has been associated with decreased brain power and ability to concentrate; impaired memory, creativity and motor skills; and increased moodiness, stress and anxiety. Tips for optimizing your sleep habits include: 1) Adjust temperature, lights and sounds to encourage sleep. Use earplugs or blackout curtains if necessary.

2) Avoid alcohol within three hours of sleep time.

3) Do not exercise within beneficial as longer, less inthree hours of bedtime. tensive bouts.

4) Shut down your devices at 2) Break up the day. Walk least one hour before bedtime. while talking. Take stretch breaks. Park at the far end Exercise of the lot. Take stairs. Sit less.

Exercise nourishes the Move more. brain by 1) increasing the 3) Keep track. Log workproduction of neurochemi- outs and track progress. Set cals that stimulate growth, goals and stay motivated. differentiation, survival, and 4) Be flexible. Take advantage repair of brain cells; 2) induc- of open spots in your calendar. ing growth of blood vessels, 5) Mix it up. Head outdoors a process which usually de- when the weather is nice. clines with age; and 3) improv- Take a new exercise or dance ing mood states. class. Play a sport.

Exercise does not need to be time consuming and can be Eliminating stress pressures facilitated by varying duration, Rumination is the action of intensity and mode. Consis- thinking over and over about tency over time is important.

Adequate sleep a subject and attaching negaFive ways to make exercise tive emotions to it. RuminaSleep is divided into five stages: four non-REM (rapid- a habit: tion is the key determinant of 1) Do less, more often. stress and the enemy of resileye-movement) and one REM. During REM sleep, the brain is Shorter multiple bursts of in- ience, especially in the setting most active in processing and tensive activity can be just as of daily pressures. People who reactive oxygen species and the body’s ability to detoxify these scavengers and repair the damage.

Antioxidants are natural substances that inhibit oxidation by neutralizing free radicals. As a result, they can prevent or delay damage to cells, as in aging or memory loss.

As we think about fueling our brains, we must consider foods that improve the blood supply to the brain, are rich in antioxidants, and regulate glucose levels. Plants have been most studied for their positive effects on brain health, including improvement in memory, reversal and delay of cognitive decline, and increase in nerve cell growth.

Those plant-forward foods include berries, dark leafy greens, green tea, walnuts, herbs (cayenne, cinnamon, saffron, turmeric), onions, ginger, garlic, citrus fruits, fatty fish, legumes, and whole grains. Additional recommendations include: 1) Eat more unprocessed foods.

2) Shop in the perimeter of grocery stores where most unprocessed foods are stored or kept.

3) Remember, frozen produce is a great option, as frozen produce is harvested and frozen at peak of ripeness so that nutrients are maintained.

don’t ruminate may have plenty of hardships in their lives, but they avoid related stress.

Four mental habits to reduce (rumination) stress and burnout: 1) Wake up. Focus and live in the present, not the past or future.

2) Control your attention.

Train your mind and practice focusing consciously.

3) Detach. Take a break to connect with your senses or perform a body meditation.

Get some space to maintain and regain perspective.

4) Let go. Acknowledge your stressor, then set it aside and let it go.

Spend most of your time in reflection, reviewing the past and planning for the future, versus rumination, regretting the past and having anxieties about the future.

These pillars function synergistically. Improvement in one pillar often results in improvement in others. Choose one or multiple tips to begin improving your brain health in the new year.

Sharon Luster Dykes, MD, FACS, FASCRS is a dual board-certified colon and rectal surgeon. She owns her independent surgical practice, Minnesota Colon and Rectal Surgical Specialists. She earned her Bachelor’s and Medical Degrees from Brown University and completed General Surgery Residency and Colon and Rectal Surgery Fellowship at the University of Minnesota.

She currently serves as a Senior Oral Examiner and a Written Examination Committee member for the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery.

Shorter COVID isolation time could ease worker shortages Experts urge patience, avoiding large gatherings

By Mel Reeves Community Editor Earlier this week, the CDC issued a change in policy that was met with some skepticism and criticism. In a release, the agency wrote, “Given what we currently know about COVID-19 and the Omicron variant, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is shortening the recommended time for isolation for the public.

“People with COVID-19 should isolate for five days and, if they are asymptomatic or their symptoms are resolving (without fever for 24 hours), follow that by five days of wearing a mask when around others to minimize the risk of infecting people they encounter.

“The change is motivated by science demonstrating

“It seems we are prioritizing getting people back to work. It’s concerning,” said Dr. Rachel Hardeman, founding director of the Center for Anti-racism Research for Health Equity and professor of health and racial equity at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. ”If we had policies for people to take paid leave and to take care of their families and pay their bills, we likely wouldn’t be in this predicament.”

Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told the MSR the policy makes sense to him.

“It’s an imperfect solution to an imperfect problem. It’s an imperfect solution, but I give the CDC credit for taking it on and the criticism,” said Osterholm.

“If we lose 20% of health care workers due to illness, this by itself will create a real crisis.” that the majority of SARSCoV-2 transmission occurs early in the course of illness, generally in the one to two days prior to the onset of symptoms and the two to three days after,” according to the CDC.

“All over the country, there have been critical shortages of essential services. Three subway lines were shut down in New York City because of a lack of workers.”

He added, “If we lose 20% of health care workers due

to illness, this by itself will create a real crisis. Critical infrastructure has to continue. The roads have to be plowed, sanitation services have to continue, the electricity and basic needs have to continue to be taken care of if people are well enough to work,” he said.

“Ideally we would like to have more time. It’s not perfect and will not be perfect.

Think of it like a Minneapolis blizzard. This is a viral blizzard, and like our blizzards it will not last. We are in a situation where we need to get through the next six to eight weeks,” said Osterholm.

“In a few more months,” he continued, “we will have a few more drugs that will limit the impact of the virus, and along with vaccinations that will help us get through this.

I have confidence in what has been produced so far. Just think what’s going to happen if you have drugs that make the virus less severe,” said the professor.

Osterholm was referring to the new pills developed

by Merck and Pfizer promising new drug treatment that could be given as a pill in the days after COVID-19 symptoms arise to prevent severe disease infection.

“It certainly has the potential to be a really important advance,” said Albert Shaw, MD, Ph.D., a Yale Medicine infectious diseases specialist.

“Other COVID-19 treatments, such as remdesivir or monoclonal antibodies against the

Dr. Michael Osterholm SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19, are given intravenously. This is a pill your physician could write a prescription for, that you could pick up in a drugstore.”

Pfizer’s pill is designed to block the activity of a key enzyme that is needed for the coronavirus to multiply.

Merck has developed a pill called molnupiravir, which performed so well in a clinical

trial this year that the trial was halted early so the FDA could make the treatment available quickly. An early report showed the drug cut the risk of hospitalization and death by 50% for patients who had a mild-to-moderate disease.

But a final analysis of the trial reported in November reduced that benefit to 30%.

Osterholm was confident that we will get to the other

Courtesy U of M side of this crisis. “Back in 1980, HIV was a death sentence. Today it’s a chronic disease.”

But in the meantime, the doctor urged people to avoid big parties. “If you go to bars there is a good chance you will get infected,” he warned.

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Ward, which includes the 38th Street on highlighting the city’s Black heritage and legacy.

Cultural District.

“It’s about business, it’s about The first efforts to revitalize this development,” Jenkins said. “But it’s corridor date back to 2015 when Continued from page 1 former Ward 8 Councilmember also about reestablishing the historiElizabeth Glidden hosted a series cal presence that African Americans of events titled “The Future of East had in this community for many, the city will change and grow over the next two decades. Its theme is 38th Street.” She focused on efforts many years to make sure that we focused on reversing the systemic barriers that have been created by City policies that have made it difficult for Communities of Color to access housing, jobs, and commercial investment, leading to large to to identify development opportuni- highlight that and restore that to ties along the corridor and bring the make this the cultural district that it racial disparities.

This three-part story focuses on district’s historically Black roots to deserves to be.” one of these designated areas, the the forefront.

Jenkins was Glidden’s policy aide Uniting past and present 38th Street Cultural District. StretchSouth Minneapolis was once a ing from Nicollet to Bloomington at the time. After her election to the Ave., the area has become a key council, she reignited that initiative vibrant community of Black families, part of the recovery effort given its in 2019 by creating THRIVE, a stra- businesses, and community organisignificant history. It was once home tegic development plan by the com- zations. Between the 1930s and the to a robust South Minneapolis Black munity in collaboration with the City. 1970s there were dozens of BlackSince then, Councilmember Jen- owned businesses along the 38th community, and now city leaders hope to honor that legacy by ensur- kins has continued meeting with Street corridor, from dental offices ing the current community receives community leaders, business owners, to music venues. Many of the famiaccess to resources as they strive to and stakeholders to expand on previ- lies living in this part of the South rebuild with an equitable approach ous efforts to preserve the corridor’s Side were a part of the Great Migrarich history and revitalize the South- tion, when millions of Black Ameriguiding their way.

Minneapolis City Council Vice side community with strategic invest- cans moved from the rural South to President Andrea Jenkins is spear- ment in the wake of George Floyd’s Northern urban areas in search of heading the planning around the murder. Jenkins and other local lead- opportunity.

Atum Azzahir is the chief executive district after years of planning with ers put together a document that community stakeholders. Council- lays out their aims surrounding the officer of the Cultural Wellness Cenmember Jenkins represents the 8th corridor, starting with an emphasis ter, a community organization that

connects health and heritage in an effort to drive change in Minneapolis.

Azzahir, 78, has lived and worked on the South Side for over 40 years and is often referred to as Elder, a title that acknowledges her experience and status in the community.

A mother of four sons, Azzahir moved to Minneapolis from Milwaukee in search of better opportunities.

Prior to that she’d lived in Mississippi, where she was born. “I moved here to try to find a way to do what my mother and father had done,” she said.

She recalled after arriving in Minnesota settling into the Southside neighborhood where Black families often interacted with one another and fostered a sense of community. “[There were] people who had so much more professionally and financially than we did, but we were all together in building the community fabric for our children.”

Azzahir’s son, Anthony Taylor, also remembered his time growing up along the 38th Street corridor. His first memories in Minneapolis were of his time at local city parks and frequenting business hubs like 38th and 4th, where there were once over 20 Black-owned businesses.

Restaurants, a barbershop, and a record store were some of the businesses Taylor recalled passing

Hampton

Another personal experience in my life stems from a legacy of individuals who supported the community. This newspaper’s founders, Cecil E. Newman and Launa Q. Newman, were my grandparents. My father Wallace Jackman was the co-publisher and constantly, even today, connects people in the community.

Mom was a banking professional and certified personal care assistant, and my maternal grandmother was a school teacher—just to name a few.

These individuals taught me how important it is to be Black and to do good things that uplift other Black people and the entire community.

“We were all together in building the community fabric for our children.”

and providers—this enables us to focus more on the needs of our patients and community, ensuring they have access to equitable care.

Continued from page 1 Furthermore, we have a Chief Health Equity Officer (CHEO) role at Hennepin Healthcare. Together, my payroll, compensation, employee and role and the CHEO are responsible for labor relations, organization develop- ensuring we have a focus on diversity, ment and design, health and well-being, equity, inclusion, and health equity recognition and engagement, and across our care system. This means employee support handling quick yet creating a diverse, inclusive and equisometimes life-changing questions for table work environment for the people in our organization and health equity employees.

We renamed the role to align with for the patients in the community. the market shift for the CHRO role as the market is evolving to establish MSR: You mentioned one of your Chief People Officer titles to empha- main priorities was bringing more size that employees are not resourc- strategic focus on diversity, inclusion es. We added culture to highlight and engagement to Hennepin that the strength of our culture is as Healthcare’s workplace. What type of progress are you seeing in this important as our 7,000 employees.

The culture we create has to be important area?

TJH: We have a workforce that diverse and inclusive, and we’re taking time to implement strategies is over 35% diverse. We have one to further create a highly engaged of the most diverse executive teams workforce and world-class culture in the Twin Cities, and the progress of inclusion, equity, and belong- we’re seeing includes making more ing. We’re taking the extra effort diverse hires. We do need to conto provide an excellent employee tinue to work hard to engage and experience at Hennepin Healthcare retain all our employees as turnover where every one of us feels like we’re is rising in healthcare.

We’ve been able to increase our #HereTogether.

When it feels like our employer is employee engagement scores since here, cares and we’re valued—espe- 2019. This year we will see, as the cially as health care team members pandemic has taken a toll on our

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democracy, then how can we in good conscience allow for a situation in which the Republican Party can debate and pass voter suppression laws at the State level with only a simple majority vote, but not allow the United States Senate to do the same? We must adapt.

“The Senate must evolve like it has many times before.

The Senate was designed to evolve and has evolved many times in our history.”

Sen. Schumer continued: “The fight for the ballot is as old as the Republic. Over the coming weeks, the Senate will once again consider how to perfect this union and confront the historic challenges facing our democracy.

We hope our Republican colleagues change course and work with us.

“But if they do not, the Senate will debate and consider changes to Senate rules on or before January 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to protect the foundation of our democracy: free and fair elections.”

African American community.

Recent history shows that when Republicans controlled the Senate, they bent tradition and rules to push through the party’s agenda, including two controversial Supreme Court nominations.

With GOP-led voter suppression laws in states across the country and the continued police killings of unarmed African Americans, many have pushed for legislation like the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the George Floyd Justice and Policing bill. Both measures would supersede laws already on the books and make it easier for people of color to vote and hold law enforcement accountable for their actions.

“The weaponization of rules once meant to shortcircuit obstruction have been hijacked to guarantee obstruction,” Sen. Schumer said. “We must ask our- Stacy M. Brown is an NNPA selves: If the right to vote Newswire senior national is the cornerstone of our correspondent.

employees’ engagement. Thus, we will continue to mainly focus on diversity, inclusion, engagement and employee wellness.

MSR: Are there any personal experiences that have helped guide big decisions during your first year at Hennepin Healthcare?

TJH: Shortly before I started my new role, I learned I had breast cancer. Two years before that, I lost my mother to cancer. These, in addition to the pandemic, are the most profound personal experiences I’ve had.

Both directed me to make every effort to put my own oxygen mask on first. This gives me the strength to support other people in my personal and professional community.

One way I do this is I run nearly every day. This past year, I took up yoga. On the days I don’t run, I do yoga or walking. I also reflect often, considering what can I do to make things better or do things differently, and how can I help someone or the organization achieve its goals, professionally or personally.

Sometimes this intention requires me to make hard decisions, which includes deciding when to get up in the morning to exercise, when to tell someone no, and when to make a change at work so that the whole team can succeed.

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for renters who are experiencing eviction and may need to go through eviction court, and making sure that they are able to have the resources to navigate that very dehumanizing process.

We need more inclusive screening criteria. We know that one of the biggest barriers that people have to accessing housing is that the credit score limit is too high. The income ratio, they don’t meet it exactly.

I’m a union organizer, so the rights of workers are very, very important to me. Making sure that workers are treated with dignity and respect in their workplace and are not having their wages stolen is something that’s really important to me.

Housing rights and labor rights are my two biggest priorities.

MSR: What do you see as the major issues facing your ward?

AC: I think the biggest issues facing my ward specifically are the rising cost of rent and workers being treated with a lack of dignity or respect or not making enough money at work.

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in his youth. It’s hard not to see the neighborhood’s impact on him, now the senior vice president of equity outdoors at the YMCA and serving as a commissioner for the Metropolitan Council’s Parks and Open Space Commission.

As an adult, Taylor has researched the history of his neighborhood to understand how it came about and was able to thrive despite the obstacles that the Black community faced.

“The truth of the matter is again that this community originated because of the way that it was redlined,” Taylor said. “One of the things we have to think of with cultural districts is that they are created effectively because White communities deemed them as less valuable, and cultural communities move into them and create life.”

Part of Taylor’s efforts in researching the community’s history is to find new opportunities for investment and create the conditions for economic development once again on the South Side.

NEXT WEEK: 38TH STREET CULTURAL DISTRICT Abdi Mohamed welcomes reader responses to amohamed@spokesmanrecorder.com. our employees to share their wellness struggles. We then make sure they have the support. In 2020 and now, we’ve extended more through our wellness programs and resources, employee assistance program, and re-established our employee resource groups as ‘Collectives.’ These give employees a chance to connect with people who self-identify with some affinity or dimension of diversity, and leaders are connecting more with employee leader connections and team huddles.

MSR: What “one thing” would you like to share with the local community about Hennepin Healthcare that may not be as MSR: The pandemic continues understood? to put tremendous strain on our TJH: We care about you! We want healthcare system, particularly to take care of all your healthcare medical staff. Have you implemented needs—clinical and trauma-related. any new programs to support We’re building a new corporate camemployee wellness? And how can the pus. We’re engaging the community community play a role in this? and our employees in this work, and TJH: We just received a $1.5 we’re going to be using these ideas million grant to focus on employee to build a healthcare system that is wellness! This will help us build our #HereTogether for you, our employmore strategies to focus on the well- ees and community. being of our employees. As a public organization, having access to grant Those interested in learning more resources like this enables us to put about Dr. Hampton’s experience can in place programs that we wouldn’t connect on LinkedIn. otherwise have the means to do so.

We have implemented holding Julie Gordon welcomes reader town hall safe space conversations for responses to Julie.Gordon@deluxe.com.

MSR: I know you supported question two. Now that that has failed, how do you plan to hold the police accountable?

AC: The reality is there is one person in the city of Minneapolis who has any type of authority when it comes to oversight or accountability of the police department, and that is the mayor of Minneapolis… I really

policing in the city of Minneapolis right. I think we really do need to have an independently elected body that is directly accountable to the community that is responsible for holding police accountable in the city of Minneapolis. safe.

Making sure workers are treated with dignity and respect in their workplace, making sure that people are able to access “Housing rights and safe, stable and dignified housing, making sure that people are labor rights are my able to access a transportation two biggest priorities.” system that meets their day-tolook forward to spending the day needs and gets them to and next two years of my term help- from the places that they need ing hold the mayor accountable to go to live their lives—those to the promises that he made are all of the different things that to us during the campaign we can do to address our comabout delivering real police munity’s public safety needs. reform. The responsibility we have as Minneapolis residents MSR: How do you plan to at this moment is to help hold address youth violence? our mayor accountable as well. AC: That is a really, really good I really think that in the long question. We have spent the term we need to uplift the com- last couple of years really seemunity demand for commu- ing how youth in our city and nity control of the Minneapolis across the state and country Police Department. There is an experience such a severe, ongoing campaign right now destabilizing force in our lives to establish a Civilian Police through the pandemic. EspeAccountability Commission, cially our kids who live in less which is a separately elected affluent families, kids of color, body of government that is immigrant kids, really seeresponsible solely for the Min- ing those disparities around neapolis Police Department or Internet access and technol-

ogy access and parents who are able to support them in distance learning—all of those types of things really, really play out in our communities.

As a result, we are seeing an increase in youth violence, and that is a reflection of the lack of support that we have provided as a society for our young people and our kids. Putting kids in jail is not the answer. It never was and it never will be.

We know that our parks and our schools are places where our kids come to occupy their time, so making sure that we are funding programs through our parks and other youth programming, so that we are actually investing in our kids and we are meaningfully engaging in their day-to-day lives and giving them access to the support and the resources that they need to grow into adulthood, all this matters a lot to me.

You will see me advocating for more and more funding for youth programming and things that are about meaningfully addressing our youth needs and fighting efforts to criminalize them.

This interview was edited for length.

R.B. King welcomes reader responses to rking@spokesman-recorder.com.

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Metropolis Potter guilty verdict: ‘at least a measure of accountability’

By Charles Hallman Contributing Writer Since Kimberly Potter was found guilty December 23 for killing Daunte Wright, some are suggesting it’s a possible sea change in police officers being charged for killing Black people.

“This verdict can’t bring Daunte back, but it creates a path toward accountability and an opportunity to prevent further tragedies,” said Color of Change Senior Director Scott Roberts in a released statement after Potter was found guilty of two manslaughter counts on Dec. 23.

Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott said in a statement, “We must not be content with accountability after a tragedy. We must all fully commit ourselves to creating a city where everyone can thrive, safe from police violence.”

“Our criminal and legal systems are long overdue for a transformation to root out the inherent racism that has long plagued our country,” added Southern Poverty Law Center President and CEO Margaret Huang. “We challenge lawmakers at both the federal and state levels to hold officers accountable for police violence.”

Potter is the first female police officer in Minnesota to be found guilty of killing a Black person. She stopped 20-year-old Wright on April 11 for having an air freshener hanging from his car’s rearview mirror and having expired license tabs.

After learning that he had an outstanding misdemeanor warrant and being told he was under arrest, Wright tried to get away and Potter, attempting to subdue him with her taser, instead shot and killed him with her gun.

She was later charged with and convicted of first- and second-degree manslaughter. When sentenced early

next year, Potter is expected to serve a minimum of seven years in prison.

However, American University Law Professor Angi Porter last week told the MSR that the Potter guilty verdict should be viewed carefully. “We now have some precedent that we can point to police officers being held accountable,” she observed.

“At the same time, we have to remain vigilant, and we have to remain awake and alert, because as we know with racism, with bias, with these racial dynamics, [police officers] are going to get smarter about how not to be

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held accountable” in shoot- a better future for our people and for all people in this ing Blacks, she suggested.

“We just have to stay one place,” continued Porter, a step ahead as we try to build ■ See Potter on page 7

Minnesota Wild celebrates Black History Month tional Hockey League (NHL), as well as some of the amateur and semi-pro teams that either preceded the NHL or provided early opportunities in the game of hockey in markets that were not a part of the premier professional league prior to the 1960s.

Willie O’Ree is recognized as the NHL’s first Black player.

He will have his number 22 jersey retired by the Boston Notable players of color Bruins on January 18, the span the history of the Na- 64th anniversary of the date

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of his NHL debut.

Here in Minnesota, Bobby Marshall, better known for his football excellence (he’s a member of the College Football Hall of Fame from his time with the University of Minnesota), was a member of Minneapolis’ championship hockey team, the Wanderers, more than 100 years ago.

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The Black Hockey History Mobile will be touring across the country to celebrate hockey’s Black players. of color, in partnership with their parent League as well as with Minnesota Hockey, the governing body of youth and amateur hockey in the state.

In late December, in conjunction with the NHL’s annual Winter Classic outdoor game coming to Minneapolis, the league debuted it’s Black Hockey History Mobile Tour, commemorating Black players in the game, past and present. The tour will continue throughout the U.S. this winter and spring.

The Wild will host a special Black History Month Celebration as a part of the home game on Friday, January 14 at Xcel Energy Center in downtown Saint Paul. Among the organizations and initiatives to be highlighted that evening are Minnesota Unbounded grassroots hockey, the DinoMights youth development program, and Hockey Is For Me, a new program created as a part of the

NHL’s growing diversity and inclusion programming.

Hockey Is For Me specifically looks to integrate kids of color aged 5 to 9 who may not otherwise get a chance to try hockey.

About 100 players were a part of the inaugural program this past summer.

They were out-fitted with skates, helmets and gloves prior to taking the ice to learn

skating at the TRIA Rink facility in downtown Saint Paul.

From there, about 70 moved on to a more advanced hockey skills program, and 45 ended up joining their local youth hockey organizations this fall, all funded with grants from the NHL’s Industry Growth Fund.

“We’re trying to reach out to kids who have never played the game or never been to a Minnesota Wild game,” Kalli Funk, the Hockey Partnerships coordinator for the Wild, told NHL.com’s Tim Campbell. Funk manages the organization’s youth hockey programs and is director and lead instructor of the Hockey Is For Me program.

“Our hope is to just get them involved in the sport at the very basic level of learning how to skate first, then tran-

providing them a scholarship to help them get into the Minnesota hockey association of their choice, one that’s closest to their house. So starting off at the basic level and then gradually working into playing the game on a team,” said Funk.

For the January 14 game, Wild players will wear custom warmup jerseys prior to the game. The jerseys were designed in partnership with leaders from the Twin Cities’ Black community and feature a traditional kente pattern integrated with the Wild logo.

Jerseys will be auctioned after the game, with proceeds benefiting the Minnesota Wild Foundation and the Minnesota Hockey Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programming.

The featured elements at the event will be about more than just hockey. Intermission programming

Specially designed Black History Month warm-up jersey for Minnesota Wild players sitioning into our Little Wild learn-to-play program, then

will also include a tribute to the Twin Cities own Sounds of Blackness.

Gary D. Hines, music director for the three-time Grammy Award-winning vocal and instrumental ensemble, will be on hand to introduce a video, including performance highlights.

To purchase tickets to attend the game, visit the official Minnesota Wild website at wild.com.

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forms of cryptocurrency, essentially a digital form of currency usually referred to as coins. Government entities typically don’t control cryptocurrencies. Instead, those who trade them and use them to make purchases online ascribe their value.

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OIC of America names Louis King as new president and CEO Minnesota’s own Louis J. King II will be moving to the national stage after having led one of OICA’s most successful affiliates—Summit Academy OIC in Minneapolis, MN—as president and CEO since 1995. For the first time in its history, OIC of America, Inc. (OICA) named one of its own, King, to step up as president and CEO of its national office, effective January 4, 2022.

“We have worked diligently to identify a CEO that aligns with our mission and, more importantly, can execute on the Board’s vision,” said OIC of America’s Board Chair, James Talton. “Louis has provided exceptional leadership to Summit Academy OIC and the City of Minneapolis.”

OICA is committed to engaging with all people in underserved communities in order to solve the labor crisis.

Continuing the work of the late founder Dr. Leon H. Sullivan, the organization aims to

Potter Continued from page 6 former local prosecutor who also provided post-trial analysis for the MSR after the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict earlier this year.

Many legal experts predicted that Potter’s emotional testimony on the stand might be enough to convince the 12-person jury

provide employment training in more marginalized groups of people than ever before.

Headquartered in Philadelphia, OICA is able to provide employment training services to both rural and urban communities due to its extensive network, which currently includes 31 national affiliates across 19 states—ranging from rural communities like Monroe, La., and Rocky Mount, N.C. to major metropolitan areas such as Philadelphia, Pa., Oklahoma City, Okla., San Antonio, Texas, and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis, Minn. and St. Paul, Minn.

“OICA provides an incredible opportunity to solve the labor crisis by engaging people of all ethnic backgrounds and geographic locations,” explained King. “Whether people come from a rural community or the inner city, it’s going to take all of us to solve the labor crisis.

“OICA is uniquely posi-

to acquit her, but not Porter, who expected the former officer would indeed be convicted. “Sometimes it can feel a little tricky trying to predict something like that,” Porter stressed. But she said she felt the jury would come back with at least one guilty charge.

The jurors—nine Whites, two Asians, and one Black— deliberated for 28 hours.

Porter said what also convinced her that a guilty

cer of the U.S. Army, has built strong political relationships and programs that steered Summit Academy OIC to become a $15 million career technology and education institution. Under his leadership, they have built the largest construction certification program in Minnesota, along with IT training programs needed to help meet today’s labor needs. Northside STEM District and the North Star Innovation Center in Minneapolis were founded as a result.

When many training programs closed due to pandemic restrictions, Summit Academy OIC quickly expanded online programs. The pivot allowed Summit to experience muchLouis King, Jr Submitted photo needed growth when many of its students were seeking to tioned to provide a scalable and this is why it’s time for replace entertainment and hossolution by providing direct us to have a seat at any table pitality jobs lost to shutdowns. access to communities that where labor is being discussed King will continue serving America can’t afford to over- at a large scale. We have what as CEO of Summit Academy look any longer. Our access to America needs.”

OIC following his transition to King, a graduate of More- OICA’s national office. Leroy forgotten communities across the nation is second to none, house College and former offi- West, Summit’s chief operat-

conviction was forthcoming was when the group asked Judge Regina Chu if they could see Potter’s gun. The prosecution argued that the officer was reckless, challenging the defense argument that it was just a bad mistake when she pulled her gun instead of her taser.

“The jury wanted to hold that gun and compare so they could firsthand feel it,” said the law professor.

Porter pointed out mis-

takes made by both sides throughout the trial. Prosecutor Erin Eldridge “had a technical trip-up” and she felt her questioning of Potter could have been stronger.

“Eldridge did brilliantly on [her] opening [and] closing.

On the other side, Porter saw that Potter’s defense attorneys seemed to count heavily on their client’s “emotional outburst” during her testimony as well as the race factor—Potter is White

and Wright was Black.

“Race is always a factor,” stated Porter, who teaches law with an Afrocentric focus. “The American legal system is not equipped to address racism in these trials,” adding that the prosecutors “were up against the power of White womanhood in this trial.”

Porter also offered a quick analysis of Chu: “This is a consummate judge.

Her demeanor was always

ing officer of 18 years, will take over as Summit Academy OIC’s president.

King is committed to seeing the completion of Summit’s $12 million comprehensive campaign that will benefit North Minneapolis. King will also continue to build strategies around working with the African American church to address crime in the city.

King’s appointment comes at a time when a confluence of events across the country calls for immediate workforce intervention. As Americans are quitting their jobs in record numbers and researchers are warning of dire workforce shortages, King aims to leverage the opportunity to finally eradicate poverty in America.

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steady. Because she’s a person of color, she didn’t have those overt racial biases.”

Finally, the Potter verdict doesn’t change the fact that Wright died. “The fact of the matter is, Daunte Wright is no longer among us. [But] at least we have a measure of accountability here,” concluded Porter.

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

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View Continued from page 10 [are about to] do, nobody would be playing baseball.

You need to understand this is not about you. It’s about your kids, and those kids after those kids.”

Then, as a teenager, Richardson didn’t fully understand his grandmother’s simple advice, but he took her words to heart and would apply them later during his successful coaching career.

“She meant if I didn’t do my best job, we are never judged as an individual. If one Black

can’t get it done, there’s not going to be another Black to follow him for a long time.”

Richardson later played college basketball at Eastern Arizona Junior College, then transferred and finished his college education and playing at Texas Western College (now Texas at El Paso) for his junior and senior years. He began coaching at Bowie High School in El Paso (1968-1977), then moved to Western Texas JC (1977-80), where he won the 1980 national championship in his third and final season.

“I thought we should have won it twice,” said Richardson,

who moved to Tulsa (19801985). “I took four of my [junior college] players with me to Tulsa… We won the NIT in 1980-81,” he noted.

With his grandmother’s words, Richardson would become a door opener: He was the first Black coach at Tulsa and is largely credited for bringing the school to national prominence. He became the first coach in NCAA history to win 50 games in his first two seasons there.

Richardson in 1985 became the first Black coach at a major predominantly White university in the South when Arkansas hired

him. Along with his flamboyant personality and game-day sport coats and polka dot ties, he also was an excellent tactician, a fact that too often Black coaches aren’t given credit for, then and now. At Arkansas he would become only the second Black coach to win the NCAA national championship with his hellish uptempo playing style.

Next: Richardson’s “40 minutes of Hell” Charles Hallman welcomes reader responses to challman@ spokesman-recorder.com.

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“a humbling experience, because Division III [schools] do not offer athletic scholarships, so those athletes are literally coming to do their sports for the love and the passion of it. I’m still so focused on my craft.”

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This hasn’t yet discouraged Magee in her dream to help promote HBCU gymnastics. She estimates it might take about $150,000 Charles Hallman welcomes to start a program. reader responses to challman@ Magee calls coaching at spokesman-recorder.com.

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data also show that there were 1,894 Black volleyball players across all three divisions in 2021. The all-time high in a 10-year span was 1,921 (2019).

“I remember getting into [volleyball coaching] in the late ‘90s and not seeing a lot of young girls that look like me playing volleyball,” recalled Johnson. The numbers are increasing, she pointed out: “That part has been really, really fun to see and really special when I get to see those moments when I’m out recruiting.”

She is proud that the SEC has both herself and Reed as head coaches. “She was a great assistant and I have known her for quite a long time and it’s definitely an opportunity that she’s earned.

I’m sure she will be successful. I would love to see more [Black] female head coaches across the board in our sport.

I think that would be great for our sport.”

head coaches and believe we have to choose between what we are and change our personality and I don’t think that’s true. I think you just have to be true to yourself.

“The second thing that I said was that I would give myself more grace. I think I am harder on myself than anyone else. No one puts more pressure on me than I do. I think showing myself a little bit more understanding, I think that’s part of learning as long as you learn from your mistakes. Then everyone involved in the program will be better off.

“The third thing is just to be a better communicator and listener,” added Johnson.

“In today’s day and age” the players are different than five years ago, she stressed.

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First in a multi-part series

Nolan Richardson egendary coaches can tell such great stories, and Nolan Richardson ranks right up there at the top of such storytellers.

It would have been preferable to sit and listen at his feet, but a phone call to his Texas home would have to do. Richardson, the 2014 Basketball Hall of Famer, turned 80 years old Dec. 27 and took time out to talk to this reporter. He was just as engaging as the two previous times we had spoken, then in person.

He grew up in El Paso during the Jim Crow times. “I was one of the biggest kids on the block, the only African Ameri-

can family in the whole neighborhood,” recalled Richardson, who loved playing baseball and was on the local Little League team. “They didn’t let me play all the games because I was bigger than everybody,” so his coach made Richardson third base coach. “I liked that…

I looked forward to being on the sidelines.”

It was the beginning of his illustrious decades-long coaching career: “I already

There are no gymnastics teams in HBCUs

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By Charles Hallman Sports Columnist obyn Magee is in her third season as University of Wisconsin-La Crosse gymnastics assistant coach, choreographer, and recruiting coordinator. In her spare time, she is a tireless advocate for diversity in her sport.

“Maybe five to 10% that are in the collegiate atmosphere are women of color, and that’s just off the top of my head,” guesstimated Magee in an MSR phone interview.

Magee is one of 11 Black female assistant coaches, an all-time high in the NCAA player and coach demographics over a nine-year span (2012-2021), along with three Black head coaches in nonHBCU schools in all three divisions, up from two in 2020

Courtesy of Twitter realized what I wanted to do was to become a coach,” noted Richardson.

But when he got to high school, playing baseball wasn’t fun anymore and Richardson wanted to quit. But this didn’t sit well with his grandmother, who raised him after his mother died. “My grandmother was a big Jackie Robinson fan,” he recalled. “I decided not to play baseball when they wouldn’t let me stay in the [same] hotel as the team.

“My grandmother pulled me over to the side [and said], ‘Look, if Jackie Robinson would have done what you

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Coach Magee at left and one in 2016.

There were 133 Black gymnasts in 2021—the total number in 2012 was 83. Many credit the rise of Blacks and other people of color in the sport to the success demonstrated by Gabby Douglas,

the first Black woman to win the Olympic all-around title in 2012, and Simone Biles in 2016.

“I was a gymnast growing up,” said Magee, a New Orleans, La. native who competed at the regional and national level for 13 years, finishing her career as a Level 10 gymnast.

“When I was younger, at a lot of the gyms that I attended” there weren’t many who looked like her, she recalled.

“It never really bothered me because I was good at what I did… I was still focused on my craft.

“I wanted to compete in college,” and especially at her home state school LSU, but an Achilles injury suffered in her junior year in high school all but derailed her initial goal, Robyn Magee continued Magee. “I’m from Louisiana, and that was going ies in 2017. She later earned a to be home for me regardless sports management master’s degree from Florida A&M in 2019.

It was at FAMU that Magee turned her attention to Black college gymnastics in her research and discovered that the sport didn’t exist at HBCUs. Grambling State last summer announced the possibility of adding women’s gymnastics in the next three to five years. The fifth annual Brown Girls Do Gymnastics conference, attended by 100 Black and Brown gymnasts, was held there last summer as well.

Submitted photo Founder Derrin Moore’s overall goal is to provide “scholarof whether I did gymnastics.” ships, coaching, training and After her injury, “It was re- other forms of support to athally hard to be recruited after letes from underrepresented that time. I really wanted to and marginalized groups.” go to LSU.” She did attend the Magee also wants to see school, however, and earned a HBCU gymnastics. “I am cursociology degree while minor- rently working on some difing in business and sport stud- ferent avenues, reaching out

Courtesy of Twitter to different businesses and companies to sponsor an HBCU,” she said. “Contrary to belief, it’s not as expensive [to start a gymnastics program] as people perceive, because a lot of different gymnastics communities often are very supportive.”

“I’m still so focused on my craft.”

College gymnastics can be pricey, however. The University of Minnesota reported on the NCAA annual financial report that the school spent over $1.3 million for total gymnastics operating expenses in fiscal year 2020. It is among the non-revenue sports as well.

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Carrington leads Park Center to 1st George New LSU volleyball coach Floyd Classic victory promises herself some grace

n the championship game of the first annual George Floyd Jr. Holiday Classic last week at North Central University, senior guard Braeden Carrington scored 35 points and senior backcourt mate Leo Torbor added 14, leading Park Center to a 67-65 victory over Minneapolis North, No.1 in Class 3A with Head Coach Larry McKenzie at the helm.

Park Center, coached by former Hopkins High School standout James Ware, is the No.1-ranked 4A boys’ basketball team. Senior guard Willie Wilson led the North with 22 points while fellow guard and classmate Jacob Butler added 14.

The classic was created by the Minnesota Black Basketball Coaches Association

Park Center senior guard Braedon Carrington Photo courtesy U of M to honor Floyd, murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was found guilty on May 25, 2020 of second-degree unintentional murder, thirddegree murder, and seconddegree manslaughter.

Floyd’s funeral was held at North Central, which answers the question of why the classic was held at the small university in Minneapolis.

Jack Yates High School’s team (Houston, TX), currently led by Head Coach Eddy Barlow, where Floyd starred in football and basketball during the early 1990s, and

Orr Academy (Chicago, IL), led by Head Coach Louis Adams, also participated in the four-team tournament classic.

Carrington, who stands 6’3” and is a University of Minnesota men’s basketball signee, was named the George Floyd Jr. Holiday Classic MVP. The classic, which will become an annual event, is a testament to the community honoring one of its own while creating and cultivating the legacy.

Adding to the authenticity of the classic, former Minneapolis North boys’ basketball standout PJ Hill, who went on to an outstanding collegiate career at Ohio State University, presented the championship trophy while showing his appreciation for being part of such an event.

“It was an honor to represent the city and give away the championship trophy at the 1st Annual George Floyd classic,” Hill posted on his Facebook page. “The turnout was amazing.”

onya Johnson is one of 19 women and men— current head coaches, assistants, and former head coaches—on the Advancement of Blacks in Sports (ABIS) Black volleyball coaches watch list.

Johnson, the former Texas associate HC who was hired to lead LSU, and former Illinois assistant Rashanda Reed, now Alabama head coach, were named to their new positions within a couple of days of each other last month. They are the SEC’s only Black volleyball coaches.

“The [interview] process went really, really fast once it got going,” said Johnson in an MSR phone interview shortly after her hiring on Dec. 22. “I was offered the job before I left campus.”

Johnson (1987-90) attended and played at LSU, a member of two Southeastern Conference title winning clubs, and a 1990 Final Four participant. She later was an assistant at her alma mater (1998-2002).

“To come back and coach Dr. Mitchell Palmer McDon- at LSU,” explained Johnson, ald welcomes reader responses “especially 15 miles north of to mcdeezy05@gmail.com.

Baton Rouge, going to school

Tonya Johnson there and playing in front of my family, getting the opportunity to be the head coach.

I’m just super appreciative to LSU for entrusting the program to me. I just know that these next several years are going to be exciting and fun, and great energy.”

The Zachary, La. native, between her two stints at Texas (2003-08, 2014-21), was Georgia Tech HC (2009-13) and guided the Yellow Jackets to the 2009 NCAA tournament. She was also the 2012 US Volleyball National A2

Courtesy of LSU team co-head coach.

According to recent NCAA data, there were 74 total Black volleyball head coaches across all three divisions in 2021. This total was 81 twice in the previous decade (2012, 2013).

Asked how she sees herself in her second chance as HC, the LSU coach responded, “I don’t mind sharing. I made a short list of the things that I would do differently the next time I become a head coach. One, I will be myself. We become

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