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n June 2, 2022 the 100-foot-tall mural of Prince Rogers Nelson was unveiled high above the avenue that he made world-famous. Hundreds came out to Ramp A along First Avenue N. in downtown Minneapolis to celebrate the mural’s completion.

But the purple party didn’t stop there.

The festivities included the return of Celebration, a three-day event at Paisley Park, and the Purple Day community festival at Phyllis Wheatley Park, just to name a few.

Moreover, on Tuesday, June 7 a stretch of First Avenue (between 7th and 8th Streets) was ceremoniously renamed in his honor—Prince Rogers Nelson Way—on what would have been the artist’s 64th birthday.

“Honoring Prince in this way, in the wake of what we have been through, is important for the soul of this city, for the state,” MN Broadcasting Hall of Fame inductee and public arts consultant Robyne Robinson told the MSR. “Minnesota needs to see itself in a positive light again.”

She added, “Prince deserves this. He was of the dyed-inthe-wool belief that you don’t leave this place, ever. He loved

Hundreds of fans gathered for the Purple Block Party.

Photo by Steve Floyd Minnesota. He loved his people. So instead of leaving, Prince brought the rest of the world to Minnesota.”

Read more reflections by Robinson and others on spokesmanrecorder.com. Read more about the mural event on page 6.

Symbol Photo by Adam Meyer/Paisley Park.

Text by Tony Kiene.

Photo by Steve Floyd

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Students unite to protest gun violence Community demands accountability for North High Booster Club theft

By Cole Miska Contributing Writer

Hundreds of students walked out from midday classes at metro-area schools on Tuesday, May 31 to protest gun violence and stand in solidarity with the victims of recent mass shootings in Buffalo, NY and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

The walkout was organized by MN Teen Activists, a group founded by metro-area students. The group has led several other events in the two years since its inception, including a student walkout over Amir Locke’s police killing in February.

Organizer Aaliyah Murray, who is a junior at Fridley High School, said the choice to hold a walkout and rally

By Charles Hallman Contributing Writer Reportedly, $39,000 to $40,000 was stolen from the Minneapolis North High Athletics Booster Club, the loss discovered sometime in April. News of the alleged theft was first reported on the club’s Facebook page.

The then-club president “admitted taking tens of thousands of dollars” revealed during preparation for the club’s 2021 taxes and quickly reported to the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) according to the Facebook post.

A student addresses protesters gathered at the walkout and march.

Now, almost two months later, community Photo by Steve Floyd members want answers: “We need to know,” was a simple one. “We have many students were feeling said Obie Kipper, Jr. at a June 2 press conferhad multiple different state- angry right now.” ence at Sabathani Community Center in South MN Teen Activists listed Minneapolis. He and several others in attenwide walkouts and actions before. We were like, let’s just five demands to legislators dance posed the question that if former booster do it again,” Murray said. “We during the event. These club president Corrine Martin, a North High wanted to mobilize students included a statewide commit- parent, indeed committed theft, will she ever be because we know students tee to address student safety; charged with the crime? don’t feel safe. We knew that The North High Booster Club’s Facebook ■ See VIOLENCE on page 5

page states its purpose as “raising funds, distributing money…promoting participation in athletics.” A May 31 post said that a new club

Courtesy of North High/Facebook president is now in place, as well as new financial practices—“the ex-officer has returned approximately $10,000” and the Minneapolis Foundation has established a fund for raising the stolen money, the page noted.

North Athletic Director Kale Severson ■ See NORTH HIGH on page 5

Is racism a mental illness, or just plain evil?

By Jon Jeter Contributing Writer

News Analysis The proliferation of videos depicting mayhem, murder and microaggressions culminating in last month’s massacre of 10 African Americans in upstate New York has renewed a longstanding debate in the Black community: Is racism a form of mental illness?

On social media, and in barber shops and hair salons across the country, the answer to that question is self-evident to many African Americans.

What, other than madness, could have possibly compelled 18-year-old Payton Gendron to walk into the Tops supermarket in Buffalo with the “n-word” emblazoned on the nozzle of his assault rifle, and to live-stream his slaughter of Black shoppers and workers?

What, other than insanity, could explain the White police officer in Grand Rapids, Michigan who fatally shot an unarmed Congolese immigrant, Patrick Lyoya, execution-style?

Can the litany of “Karens” dialing 911 to report Black birdwatchers in Central Park or Black maintenance men and delivery drivers who are simply doing their jobs be attributable to anything other than psychosis?

“Racism is a mental illness, even though it’s not defined as one in the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” wrote an African American realtor, Andrew Smith, on Facebook. “If it was, maybe something substantive could be done about the sickening shooting problem in the United States.”

“Do you realize that racism is a mental illness?” wrote an

African American woman on Twitter this month, in response to a news report of a White man harassing a Black woman.

are not responsible for their misdeeds. “I am mentally ill and yet I have never had the desire to target an entire group

“I am mentally ill and yet I have never had the desire to target an entire group of people and massacre them.”

Still, many other African Americans reject the notion that racists are mentally ill because it suggests that they

of people and massacre them,” Imani E. McElroy, a Black physician, wrote in a widely circulated tweet last month.

“Racism is not a mental illness—it is a choice of hatred and violence. Do not further demonize and stigmatize mental health in order to avoid…dealing with racists,” wrote McElroy.

“Please help me understand why we’re assuming these killers are mentally ill?” asked another Black woman on Twitter. “What happened to just plain EVIL?” What is inarguable is the link between right-wing White extremism and racial terror. According to the Brookings Institution, the number of hate groups has increased by 100% over the past 20 years, and of every four acts of domestic terrorism committed between 2012 and 2021, three were committed by White nationalists.

In 2020, 55% of all hate crimes were carried out by Whites.

In his classic book “The Wretched of the Earth,” Martiniquan psychiatrist and Algerian resistance fighter Frantz Fanon posits that White settler colonialism is grounded in creating new, patently false identities and terrorizing the colonized population to force them to adhere to these new identities.

The level of violence required to enforce this new cultural identity traumatizes both the oppressed and the oppressor.

Carpet-bombed constantly with images and messages of their inferiority, colonial subjects often struggle with depression, anxiety, and feelings of inadequacy.

The savagery inherent in colonial relationships leads, among the colonizers, to a psychic rupture and homicidal tendencies consistent with police killings of unarmed ■ See RACISM on page 5

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Metro

‘Eviction defenders’ rally to save homeless encampment

By Cole Miska Contributing Writer On the morning of June 1 the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) and Minnesota State Patrol attempted the eviction of an unhoused encampment situated on a small patch of land at 28th Street and the fenceline of Interstate 35W in South Minneapolis. A group of community members declining to give their names but describing themselves as “eviction defenders” said that this is just the latest in a long line of encampment evictions.

“We’re out here to meet the residents’ needs,” said one of the group members. “We’re just trying to help out the residents in whatever way they need us to. It sounds like residents need help moving more than anything today.”

The eviction defender said the group living at the 35W encampment had been evicted three times in the last few months and called it “disheartening” to see people continue to be displaced who they have helped move so many times.

Residents of camps who are evicted sometimes go on to start other camps or join established ones. Local or state authorities sometimes evict camps right as they are established to stop them from growing.

“It’s like playing Whac-A-

Mole with peoples’ lives,” one eviction defender said.

One resident of the camp, Menace, who declined to give a last name, has lived in multiple encampments and been through several evictions. “Sometimes they don’t even tell us when and they just come and basically steal our sh**,” Menace said. “We gotta move on and start from zero again.”

Eviction defenders said that many people choose to stay in camps over shelters.

They noted shelters some-

MnDOT cutting the fence. times lack available beds and alleged that some shelters are unsafe to the point that people actively avoid them.

“They actually will choose the option to sleep outside during the winter,” one eviction defender said. “When that’s the case, you know there’s a problem.”

Another eviction defender called the City and State’s approaches to homelessness

“hostile” and said that there were not enough services available. “Instead [of services], what we get is cops, bulldozers and displacement.”

Eviction defenders say the City of Minneapolis and MnDOT used to give exact dates when sweeps would occur at the camps but have since started offering only vague time windows. The group of eviction defenders at the 35W encampment say the change was due to people showing up to try to stop the sweeps.

Photo by Cole Miska MnDOT and state patrol arrived at the 35W camp at 9 am. State patrol announced residents needed to begin moving belongings immediately, saying they’d had seven days of notice to vacate the private lot, which belongs to MnDOT, and that residents “should have already been gone.”

Eviction defenders contested, alleging that not all

residents had gotten the notice. “I’m not going to start arresting people in five minutes or anything,” the first state patrol officer on the scene said.

“But [residents] need to be actively moving.”

MnDOT workers cut through the chain-link fence between the camp and the interstate but did not move tents. Eviction defenders verbally sparred with state patrol and MnDOT workers throughout the fence cutting.

After the fence was mostly removed, a group of unidentified workers arrived and tried to begin removing tents but were confronted by eviction defenders and quickly abandoned the attempt.

The unidentified workers declined to comment on what organization they worked for or who had hired them for the sweep. Eviction defenders speculated that the group may have been from the Agape Movement—an organization sometimes hired by the City of Minneapolis—due to an Agape symbol visible on one worker’s shirt.

But a representative from Agape explained to the MSR that Agape was not involved with the sweep. One of their members, however, Alfonzo Williams, who owns the private company Big Top Contracting, LLC, was hired out for the sweep. Big Top Contracting members were the

Activist groups invite United Nations to investigate Mpls racism

By Henry Pan Contributing Writer A coalition of local human rights groups have invited the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Racism to visit Minneapolis as part of their visit to the United States this fall.

They invited the rapporteur, E. Tendayi Achiume of Zambia, who is a U-Cal-LA Alicia Miñana law professor, in hopes of drawing international attention to racism and ongoing human rights abuses, particularly by the Minneapolis Police Department. Rapporteur means “reporter of meeting proceedings” in French.

Advocates are worried that even with damning findings made by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights and the U.S. Department of Justice, elected officials might not have the political will to make any changes.

A “Frontline” documentary that debuted on May 31, for example, found Minneapolis police officers engaged in misconduct with impunity, even exacting revenge against their superiors who sought to do the right thing. Likewise, the legislature has failed to move reforms forward.

“This is not the first time that the Department of Justice has taken a look at the actions of the Minneapolis Police Department. Nor is it the first time the Department of Human Rights has done so,” said James Roth, who volunteers with the local Amnesty International chapter and is one of the organizations that invited the rapporteur to Minneapolis. “And the police department has managed to rebuff the suggested changes every single time over decades.”

Residents and eviction defenders move possessions onto the Greenway. unidentified workers.

The state patrol, MnDOT, and the Big Top Contracting employees left the scene by 10:30 am with the encampment still standing. “MnDOT and state patrol are now leaving,” the Twin Cities Encampment Responders Twitter account tweeted. “Eviction defense works.”

Some residents gathered their belongings and permanently departed the camp during the sweep, but others are planning to remain. One resident, Luis Ayala, said he will only stay at the camp if the other remaining residents do so as well.

Ayala called the community that has developed at the camp a “family,” saying keeping that community together is the most important thing for his happiness. “We have meals together; we kind of party when someone has a birthday. We stay together on Christmas, all those special occasions. We stay together in the most healthy way that we could.”

Ayala says he feels some people view him and other houseless people as “dangerous,” noting that people have crossed the street when they see him walking on the same sidewalk. He said there are some fights and drug use in camps but noted that both of these things happen in houses as well, and that everyone in the camp is a regular human being.

“It’s nothing different—we are living in tents. The rest of the people live in a house.

That’s all,” Ayala added.

There has been no word if or when state patrol or MnDOT will return to the encampment. MnDOT workers on the scene said they were not authorized to speak to the media. A media representative for MnDOT was called but did not arrive at the camp.

MnDOT‘s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Cole Miska welcomes reader responses to cmiska@spokesman-recorder.com.

Photo of the Week

Lighting the night in purple Sharon Smith-Akinsanya, CEO of Rae Mackenzie Group (l), and Tracey WilliamsDillard, MSR publisher/CEO (r) with Prince muralist Hiero Veiga at the June 2 Purple Block Party & Prince Mural Unveiling in Lights VIP.

Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin at a press conference at Minneapolis City Hall Photo by Henry Pan Special rapporteurs are elected by the United Nations Human Rights Council, which the United States sits on, to serve unpaid, three-year terms. Their work involves visiting and advising countries and the council to evaluate and recommend strategies to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin is the United Nations’ special rapporteur on terrorism and human rights and is a Univer-

“The police department has managed to rebuff the suggested changes every single time over decades.”

gate human rights violations perpetrated by the United States in the days following the war on terror.

“The United States stands at a crossroads where it pretends its role to be a leader for democracy, for human rights, for the rule of law in the world.

And the consequences of a failure to engage with international organizations on key issues like racism [and] structural violence is that actually the U.S.’s stature in the world diminishes,” said Ní Aoláin.

Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence founder Toshira Garraway says the invitation is long overdue.

“At this point, we have no further choice but to ask for outside help. Because if the help was going to come from within this state, it would have already happened,” said Garraway.

A rapporteur visit could occur sometime this fall. Achiume did not comment as of press time.

sity of Minnesota law professor. At a press conference organized by the organizations, she said rapporteurs can put pressure on states and nations that wish to remain influential in the world, even if they espouse it. It’s how she received Henry Pan welcomes reader an invitation in March to visit responses to hpan@spokemanGuantanamo Bay to investi- recorder.com.

Read more about the event on page 6.

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Some sunscreens found to contain benzene, a carcinogen But you still need to protect your skin

By Dr. Alexis E. Carrington Guest Contributor Although recent testing has found amounts of benzene, a potential carcinogen, in some sunscreen batches, this doesn’t mean swearing off sunscreens for good. This should not discourage sunscreen use for UV protection This recent testing was done by Vallisure, a pharmacy specializing in batch-testing medications before they hit the shelves. They tested the content of 294 different batches of sunscreens and after-care products and found roughly 27% of the samples, or 78 unique batches, contained detectable benzene levels.

Benzene is recognized

as a potential carcinogen in humans by multiple health organizations, including the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to the American Cancer Society, exposure to liquid or vaporized benzene can irritate the skin, eyes, and throat.

Further, redness and blisters can occur from skin exposure to benzene. Benzene is more commonly inhaled during occupational usage of benzene-containing solvents and materials. Long-term inhalation of high levels of benzene is associated with leukemia, cancer, and other blood conditions.

As of now, according to the Dermatology Times, Valisure is requesting the FDA to recall the identified sunscreens and after-sun care products. In addition, they are asking for defined limits for benzene contamination in cosmetic and drug products. Valisure has

published their report including the list of tested products that contained benzene.

Sun protection still necessary There are important things to note before being concerned about sunscreens.

First, these were specific batches that were tested, not entire brands. Therefore, one batch from a brand of sunscreen products isn’t necessarily representative of the entire brand.

Second, the majority of the sunscreens tested were found to be safe. Valisure has noted this as well. Third, these products can be adjusted to not contain benzene contamination; it is not permanent and they can be manufactured safely. Overall, further investigation needs to be done.

For these reasons, it is still important to protect yourself against the sun. This includes continuing to apply sunscreens, as well as wearing sun-protective clothing and hats for further protection.

Sunscreen is still one of the

Getty Images/iStockphoto most effective ways to prevent skin cancer, as well as skin discoloration.

Especially as we enter into the summer months, it is important to keep using sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or above, sun-protective clothing, broad-brimmed hats, and even sunglasses to protect yourself.

Remember, regardless of their skin tone, everyone should utilize sunscreen every day of

the year, as well as other forms of sun protection, as a shield against UV radiation.

nal Medicine Preliminary year at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine Elmhurst Hospital Program in New York City, This Advice column has run during the initial onset of the previously and is republished COVID-19 pandemic. She is currently completing a dermahere by popular demand. tology post-doctoral research Alexis E. Carrington MD will fellowship at UC Davis. She has be a dermatology resident at interests in ethnic and medical George Washington Univer- dermatology, underserved and sity Department of Dermatol- global health dermatology, and ogy. She completed her Inter- dermatologic surgery.

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Ross Martial Arts Academy

Black Business SPOTLIGHT

Business ​ lack martial arts academy B opens near George Floyd Square joy working with kids; I enjoy teaching. And over the years, I’ve learned a lot of different teaching methods to get people to learn,” he said.

Furthermore, budding entrepreneurs should be mindful that starting a business can be costly. “For a martial arts studio, it’s enough to hurt the pockets, but it’s all worth it—it’s reinvesting in your own business. It does cost, it was a financial blow with setting that up,” Ross said.

By Ashley Lauren Contributing Writer Local entrepreneur James Ross is the owner of Ross Martial Arts Academy (RMAA), located at 37th and Chicago Ave. in George Floyd Square. The business opened in March 2022.

“The mission and purpose is to better yourself—self-improvement through physical expression, as well as teambuilding and leadership,” Ross said. “Those are the three main focuses of my martial arts program.”

Ross was born and raised in South Minneapolis. He graduated from Washburn High School in 2001. Years later he dedicated his time and energy to learning martial arts.

Ross recalled, “All of my training, most of [my] martial arts training was done at the World Taekwondo Academy.”

As a result, he is equipped with a wealth of knowledge and expertise. “It’s been about 15 years,” he said.

Hard work can yield fruit.

Ross said, “I’m a third-degree black belt. The biggest thing is consistency, self-motivation, motivation from your coaches—and how determined you are to accomplish something.”

Ross disclosed more about his experience. “I’ve been teaching on and off between different locations within the World Taekwondo Academy.

James Ross with students I also taught at Parnassus Preparatory School in Maple Grove. They have a Taekwondo program, which is a part of their phy ed, so I was the program director for that for about three years.”

Overall, “I’ve been teaching and instructing for at least 10-12 years out of the total time I’ve been training,” he said. Now, Ross is looking forward to opening his very own school.

He elaborated, “The biggest thing that inspired me was to open up a school in that neighborhood. I have classes for all ages, but my main focus is the youth and just with all the things I’m hearing in the news and the things I’m seeing out in the streets.”

As a result, he is called

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to action. “I think the community needs a structured program like martial arts that instills character building, leadership, and team building. That’s the main reason and main purpose of me setting up right there in George Floyd Square,” he said.

Ross emphasized, “It’s close to my heart, that’s where I grew up. Before the Speedway, when it was Super America, that was my spot that I would walk to as a child.”

Most importantly, “I just have a deep connection with the neighborhood and I’m hoping that whatever I have to offer can make some type of positive impact within the community,” he said.

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which is for all ages. We teach Taekwondo, MMA, street self-defense, and acrobatics—beginners start with foam weapons and then they get bumped up to wood weapons and as they progress.” As individuals advance, they’ll be able to use “nun chucks, swords,” he said.

He added, “And then for the adults, I’m going to be teaching kind of a combination of mixed martial arts and a fitness class, kickboxing class. So, it’s more geared to-

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The interior of Ross Martial Arts Academy The RMAA offers exceptional classes. “I have the Little Tigers class, so that’s between 4–6-year-olds. And then we focus predominantly on motor skills, listening skills, and confidence,” he said.

Ross added, “We have a family martial arts class,

ward fitness, but you’re going to learn self-defense while you’re working on your fitness.”

He continued, “I do street self-defense seminars. And I collab with different professionals to do different seminars. The average class right

now is going to be $100.”

Ross hopes to start a nonprofit to give back on a larger scale and help “underprivileged” youth in the neighborhood.

He further expressed, “We also do Olympic sparring, so we do have it set up so if there’s athletes that want to make it to the Taekwondo Olympic team. We have coaches and resources to do that. There are national and international tournaments participants can train for.”

Ross shared his keys for success: “Making sure that you’re properly prepared for whatever task you plan on taking, which means if you have to study or do research.”

And “having a strong will and determining drive to be a self-motivator and self-starter,” he said.

Ross encouraged the youth to “put your family and yourself first. Make sure the family unit is taken care of— and support each other as much as you can throughout your life.”

He added, “Be confident and take the leap.”

Ross Martial Arts Academy is located at 3736 Chicago Ave. S., Minneapolis. For more information visit www.instagram. com/rossmartialartsartsacademy.

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North High

that wish to raise money for a particular cause, and that is what we did in this case…with the assurance that all contributions will be overseen by the Continued from page 1 foundation.”

This is the second time in several years that allegations of missing money have surfaced at North High athletics.

Former North AD Dr. Leo was contacted for comment but our Lewis was placed on administrative requests were unanswered.

“School leaders at North High leave, then later fired in August 2018 School reached out to the Minneapo- after being accused of stealing $8,000 lis Foundation this spring,” the founda- from the school’s athletic funds. “[He] brought in hundreds of thoution’s senior vice president Chanda Smith Baker told the MSR. “We rou- sands of dollars during his tenure as tinely open special purpose funds on athletic director,” said Kipper of Lewis, behalf of individuals and organizations who was hired in 2014. “Dr. Lewis did

R acism Continued from page 1

darker-skinned men that characterize virtually every White settler project, from the United States to Brazil, Israel to apartheid South Africa.

In other words, the brutalization that props up the colonial or neo-colonial state is tantamount to a war that leaves its combatants suffering from a form of post-traumatic stress disorder, or what was once known as “shell-shock.”

In another book, “Black Skins, White Masks,” Fanon

wrote, “The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation.”

In their book “Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity,” historian Sander Gilman and sociologist James M. Thomas trace the psychoanalysis of White Supremacy to the Holocaust.

In an interview with the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Thomas, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi, said there is no clinical diagnosis for racism because ​​ mental disorder is defined as aberrant behavior, and in the U.S. racism is the rule,

Violence

all students; and a full ban on AR platform rifles.

Students gathered at Gold Medal Park in downtown MinContinued from page 1 neapolis starting around 1 pm.

Aaliyah Wade, Lila Dominguez and Mina Bradley, seventhchanges to active shooter graders at Sanford Middle drills; reinstatement of the School, were among the first federal assault weapons ban; students to arrive.

“I have a whole bunch of implementation of annual mental health assessments for siblings, and I fear for them

not take one penny. The truth is those allegations were totally unfounded and not true.”

Lewis later settled under a confidential agreement with the Minneapolis School District after he filed suit for wrongful termination. Kipper, a member of Lewis’ legal team, remembered, “The accusations made against Dr. Lewis made not only state-wide news but national news.”

Lewis is Black; Martin is White. Kipper and others noted last week that Martin’s alleged theft has not received the kind of media attention Lewis’s did. “We have a concern with regard to racial bias,” stated Kipper.

not the exception.

“My perspective,” said Thomas, “is that as a population, I don’t think White America has a collective psychosis of any kind… Post-World War II, it became more common for

for the Holocaust to have taken place.

“Even as recently as the 1990s, the debate about the Nazi mind reappears in Daniel Goldhagen’s ‘Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary

“I think it’s odd to characterize an entire society as sick, or mentally ill.” scholars and laypersons alike to turn toward psychology in order to understand the Nazis and their genocidal actions.

Many believed something must have been wrong with the German psyche writ large

Germans and the Holocaust’ (1996). Goldhagen asks why the German soldiers were willing to undertake the Holocaust​.”

Thomas added, “For Goldhagen, it is a form of obsession.

when they go to school, and I fear for myself when I go to school,” Wade said. “And I think that’s something that shouldn’t occur. “ Dominguez said she believes the extra mental health support promised by Minneapolis Public Schools in the agreement it struck with the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers should be utilized

to make schools feel safer. “I think we should really start using [the mental health support],” Dominguez said. ”Especially in high schools when people are actually old enough to buy guns.”

A group of five juniors from Roosevelt High School said guns legally owned by their classmates were of less concern. They noted that guns obtained illegally by underclassmen were a larger issue and claimed that there had been several incidents with illegal firearms brought to the school. The group said they wanted to see metal detectors and a full-time School Resource Officer (SRO) at their school.

Solei Carlson, a senior who also attends Roosevelt, had a different view from her classmates. Carlson was concerned that the process to legally obtain a firearm was too easy and noted that lots of kids may have access to their parents’ firearms.

“If you’re focusing on just illegal guns, you’re kind of missing a large part of the point,” Carlson said. She also disagreed with her classmates’ desire for the presence of an SRO, noting that the police response to the shooting in Uvalde took nearly an hour to engage the shooter. Carlson

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Because Martin has a child attending North High, Kipper said, “We don’t want her involved in anything else involving North High School.” He and others called for an MPD investigation and said the state attorney general’s office should look into the matter as well.

The community should know how the theft allegations are being handled and any findings made public, said Kipper.

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He writes, ‘Germans’ violent anger at the Jews is akin to the passion that drove Ahab to hunt Moby Dick.’ “[Herman] Melville’s memorable description of Ahab’s motives may serve as a fitting motto for the unrelenting, unspeakable, unsurpassable cruelties that Germans visited upon Jews: ‘All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all the subtle demonism of life and thought, all evil to crazy Ahab were visibly personified and made practically assailable in Moby-Dick.’

“But it’s important to keep in mind that psychosis, or mental illness, is in part defined by the fact that it does not affect or apply to the majority of a

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added that some students were uncomfortable around police officers.

Kay Alexandra, another junior from Roosevelt, was working at the Mall of America late last year when an active shooter prompted a lockdown. She agreed with

some heckling from the crowd when he said he supported police and that more Democrats needed to be voted into the Senate before action can be taken on gun violence.

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population. A mental illness is, from the perspective of population statistics, an outlier. It is something that falls outside the normal curve of mental behaviors and beliefs. That’s why I think it’s odd to characterize an entire society as sick, or mentally ill,” concluded Thomas.

Someone who took a differing view was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Watching news broadcasts of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, he described his murderers in psychological terms: “This sick country! That’s exactly what they have planned for me.”

“We know students don’t feel safe. We knew that many students were feeling angry right now.”

Carlson that some students are uncomfortable around police. and that a full-time SRO may not be in the best interest of students.

“It honestly just depends on what the student body at Roosevelt wants,” Alexandra said. “There should be a vote, get every single one of their students’ opinions and experiences taken into consideration, because sometimes seeing a cop is a trauma for some children.“ Students marched from Gold Medal Park to U.S. Bank Stadium, where more speeches were given. Senator Ron Latz (46, DFL) was invited to speak but received

demning Latz’s speech. “He shared his agenda and added very little positive contributions to the issue at hand,” the statement read.

“He was insensitive in areas and was the exact example of what defines many of our White politicians. We do not support or endorse him.”

The student rally ended with a march returning from U.S. Bank Stadium to Gold Medal Park.

The MN Gun Owners Caucus did not return a request for comment by press time.

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Arts & Culture Summer fun: Twin Cities Jazz Festival & more

By Robin James Contributing Writer It’s about that time again— time for the Twin Cities Jazz Festival 2022. This year’s festival takes place on June 2425 in Mears Park located in St. Paul’s Lowertown.

Headliners include the Matthew Whitaker Quintet (June 24 at 8:30 pm), Emmet Cohen Trio with Bruce Harris (June 24 at 6 pm), Treme Brass Band (June 25 at 8:30 pm), Brandon Goldberg Quintet featuring Marcus Strickland, Josh Evans, Ben Wolfe, and Aaron Kimmel, (June 25 at 6 pm), Bruce Henry and The Evolution of African American Music (June 25 at 4 pm), and the Zacc Harris Group (June 25 at 2 pm).

The TC Jazz Fest is free and open to the public and is one of the biggest music events in the Upper Midwest. The festival attracts hundreds of

thousands of people from all around. Food and beverage options will also be available on-site.

Whitaker is a piano prodigy.

The Treme Brass Band hails from New Orleans. A full festival schedule will be made available closer to the event.

For more information, visit twincitiesfestival.com.

More hot jazz on the horizon The summer is just getting started, but it’s never too early to start planning ahead for the end of the summer.

The Detroit Jazz Festival has announced its 2022 lineup. This year’s performing artists include Chucho Valdes, Bill Frisell, Jose James, Dianne Reeves and John Scofield and the New Orleans Groove Masters, among others.

The festival takes place during Labor Day Weekend, Sept.

2-5, in Hart Plaza and Campus Martius Park. Performances

will also be livestreamed for free via live.detroitjazzfest.org.

Saxophonist Kamasi Washington and pianist Herbie Hancock are co-headlining a tour this summer. So far only 10 shows are planned beginning with a date in Vienna, Virginia. The tour will tentatively close on Aug. 23 in Berkeley, California. Other tour stops include the Newport Jazz Festival, Seattle, Detroit, Toronto, Portland and Philadelphia.

Washington and Hancock will no doubt make beautiful music together, so let’s hope some new music springs forth from this dynamic collaboration. Speaking of new music, Cuban-American pianist Martin Bejerano has a new album out titled “Yo No Bailo.” In English the title translates to “I Don’t Dance.”

Legendary saxophonist Charles Lloyd will release “Trio of Trios,” a series of three albums featuring different trio

settings. Blue Note Records will release the albums individually, and they can also be pre-ordered exclusively on the US Blue Note Store as a 3 LP vinyl boxset.

The one that most interests me is titled “Chapel,” with guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan. Frisell and Morgan sound great together and will sound even better with Lloyd.

Pianist Joey Alexander has a new album out on the Mack Avenue Records label titled “Origin.” It’s Alexander’s first record of all original material, which is something because if you’ve heard him perform some of his originals live, you’ll enjoy this album. His original material is as vivid and compelling as a veteran musician with new music.

Saxophonist Kenny Garrett is on the cover of the JazzTimes magazine. Garrett talks about his album “Sounds from

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the Ancestors.” His label Mack Avenue won the Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Award for Record Label of the Year.

The June JazzTimes issue also features an interview with writer David Fricke.

Upcoming at the Dakota, look out for jazz vocalist Samara Joy on June 25. She won the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition

and is currently touring to support new music released in 2021. It’s been said that her sound is both contemporary and classic.

For more information about tickets, visit dakotacook.com.

Robin James welcomes reader responses to jamesonjazz@ spokesman-recorder.com.

Purple Block Party draws droves

Prince fans celebrate mural completion in downtown Mpls On the same day that the Queen of England celebrated her Platinum Jubilee in London, Minneapolis honored its very own monarch: His Royal Badness, Prince Rogers Nelson.

A 100-foot-tall mural of our favorite son, painted by internationally renowned artist Hiero Veiga, now looks out over the city’s entertainment district and the legendary

many Prince fans from out of state and around the world, here for this weekend’s Celebration 2022 at Paisley Park.

Seven-time Beat Battle Champion of the Twin Cities DJ Mickey Breeze spun a number of Prince hits during the first hour, ending his set with three mid-80s classics: “Pop Life,” “Anotherloverholenyohead,” and “If I Was Your Girlfriend.”

Next, party hosts Chantel Sings and Walter “Q-Bear” Banks welcomed the burgeon-

Dr. Mambo’s Combo entertained the crowd with Prince hits.

Photos by Steve Floyd music club that Prince established as an international landmark almost 40 years ago.

The June 2 event, billed as the “Purple Block Party,” saw throngs of people descend on First Avenue North, including

ing crowd while exchanging some playful banter. When Chantel asked Q-Bear about his favorite Prince song, he wittily noted that it’s the same thing he’s been saying to women all his life: “How Come You Don’t

Call Me Anymore?”

Sing’s favorite, by the way, is ”Controversy.”

The two KMOJ deejays, North Side icons in their own right, then welcomed another Twin Cities institution to the stage, Dr. Mambo’s Combo, which counts Minneapolis Sound veterans Sonny Thompson, Michael Bland, Margie Cox, and the late Billy Franze among its former members.

Fronted by powerhouse vocalists Ashley Commodore and Julius Collins, the Combo’s energetic set was bookmarked by a pair of Prince’s highest charting singles, “Sign O’ The Times” and “Let’s Go Crazy.”

A little after 9 pm, the duo behind the mural, also known as the “Crown Our Prince” project, took the stage for the first time. With the blessings of Prince himself, it was Sharon SmithAkinsanya, CEO of the Rae Mackenzie Group, and public art expert Joan Vorderbruggen who overcame the roadblocks to successfully get this seven-year project “across the finish line.”

Things became a little emotional when they introduced two of Prince’s sisters, Norrine and Tyka Nelson, each of whom spoke to the crowd.

Tyka mentioned some of

chords of “Purple Rain” reverberated through the nearby streets and skies above Minneapolis, Veiga’s masterpiece was doused in brilliant light, officially dedicating the mural and fulfilling the promise to “make Minneapolis shine purple.”

DJ Mickey Breeze closed out the night with a more adventurous set the second time around consisting of a couple of classic Prince B-sides, including “Violet the Organ Grinder,” in which Prince repeatedly declares, “I’ll die, but I won’t go away.” That certainWalter “Q Bear” Banks with Prince’s sister Norrine Nelson ly rings true to all his fans.

And though he didn’t end the many ways downtown has the basis for the mural, further with it, Breeze’s inclusion been important to their family hyped up an already electric of “It’s Gonna Be A Beautiful through the years, recounting crowd before introducing Veiga. Night,” recorded live in Paris on how she and Prince would The unassuming and soft- the 1986 Parade Tour, proved often catch the #19 bus over spoken muralist did not ad- to be the perfect depiction of North and then, with trans- dress the audience but no the night’s festivities. fers in hand, make a pit stop at Shinders bookstore on HenIn upcoming editions of the nepin Ave. before continuing Minnesota Spokesman-Recordon to their destination. er, we’ll shine a spotlight on Promising not to cry, she the unwavering force behind closed by urging those gathboth the Prince mural and the ered to honor her older brothrenaming of First Avenue (beer. “Thank you for loving him. tween 7th and 8th Streets) as He loved you.”

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Racist ‘replacement’ rhetoric is deadly Republicans must stop using it

By Ben Jealous

Questions remain unanswered one year after Winston Smith’s death

By Charles Underwood Winston Smith died one year ago today in his car on an Uptown parking ramp. The fatal bullets were fired by a deputy from Hennepin County and a deputy for Ramsey County, part of a U.S. Marshals task force seeking to arrest Smith on a warrant for missing a court sentencing.

Since that time, there has been sketchy and sometimes contradictory information about the circumstances of his death.

Early reports were that the task force was initially seeking to arrest a completely different person but got a tip that Winston Smith was in the area for a dinner date. Early speculation questioned why Smith had not been arrested before reaching the parked car he had borrowed.

Local press reported that Smith had reached for a gun, although his date said she never saw a gun, only a black cellphone.

Winston Smith is still dead.

Smith was shot through the window of the car, killing him and injuring his date with flying glass.

Smith’s date was quoted as saying that the car was boxed in by officers’ vehicles, but it was never clear how officers were able to get both behind and beside Smith’s car while it was boxed in, according to reports.

Winston Smith is still dead.

Officers were quoted as saying that a weapon was recovered in the car and even spent bullets found near his body. It was stated that Smith had also fired, although it was never asserted who fired first. Remarkably, Smith’s body was never checked for gunpowder residue to determine if he actually fired.

The weapon said to be found in his possession was previously reported stolen in Iowa, but no information was released about how it might have come into

Smith’s possession or even what other fingerprints were found on the gun.

Winston Smith is still dead.

Much is not publicly known about this incident because no body cams or vehicle cams recorded it. According to local authorities, the U.S. Marshals prohibited the use of body cams in their operations and task forces.

Several days later, a spokesperson for the Marshals maintained that their no-cam policy had recently been reversed.

Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher described that statement as “misleading.”

In any case, the perceived no-body-cam policy was given for a lack of participation by the Minneapolis police in that operation and the reason that Ramsey County deputies were suspended from future work on similar task forces.

“Much is not publicly known about this incident because no body cams or vehicle cams recorded.”

Winston Smith is still dead.

The names of the two deputies who fired the fatal shots were never made public. Instead, a statement was made that they were working undercover at that time and that state law mandated they remain anonymous. It was never clear if those deputies were designated undercover prior to this operation, made undercover precisely for this action, or even made undercover after the Smith shooting occurred.

Winston Smith is still dead.

In the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and a number of

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other recent controversial police killings, the Twin Cities has been experiencing evident public mistrust of our police.

In order to regain public trust, a separate and independent section of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension was formed, tasked with a thorough and transparent investigation whenever police used lethal force.

Their mandate was to do the exclusive investigation in all aspects, taking testimony from all witnesses, gathering and analyzing all physical evidence.

This Force Investigation Unit (FIU) would produce a report but not make charging recommendations. The decision to charge an officer or not with anything from murder to negligence would usually be made by a county attorney with no conflict of interest in the case. With Smith’s death, the 1,025-page report was submitted to the Crow Wing County Attorney, who made the decision not to charge last October, over four months after Smith’s homicide.

According to the B.C.A. website, the report is then released to the public. The website states: “Most information becomes public when the case is closed. This happens when all court proceedings have finished or if the prosecutor decides against pressing charges.”

Information legally confidential would be redacted before a public release. A county attorney decision not to charge was announced last October. The FIU report is still not available to the public, over five months later.

Winston Smith is still dead.

The looming question remains if this particular death was unavoidable, perhaps even necessary to avoid further death or imminent danger. Most people would not posit that Winston Smith “deserved” to die.

From what we can know, he was certainly no saint, with a public record of arrests and court appearances. But none of us want to designate our officers as judge, jury and executioners.

What we need to know is rather whether deaths at the hands of the police are justified.

Providing public transparency and obvious objectivity in the ensuing investigation is precisely why the Force Investigation Unit was established. Creating procedures to avoid conflict of interest and allowing the public access to reliable information would make it possible for us to regain trust in our armed officers.

Winston Smith is still dead.

That report has still not been released.

I do not wish to accuse anyone. I believe I share a fervent wish for regained trust that, while a death might be tragic, it might also be unavoidable.

Lacking transparency since this case was resolved in October, I have written to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Crow Wing County Attorney, the Public Safety Commissioner, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, Governor

The young man who murdered 10 people in Buffalo, New York on May 14, was out to kill Black people. He chose a grocery store because he wanted to leave the local Black community in fear of going about their daily lives. These evil actions were motivated by a racist ideology known as the Great Replacement Theory.

That should cause some serious reflection among Republicans who are trying to build power with their own versions of racist “replacement” rhetoric.

Replacement rhetoric is meant to tap into a very old fear: that the survival and dominance of White Americans is threatened by others—whether by the freedom and empowerment of Black people or immigration by people of color.

Frederick Douglass, one of the great Americans of all time, denounced that ideology shortly after the end of the Civil War. Douglass was born into slavery.

He became a great anti-slavery speaker and organizer. He gave a series of important anti-slavery speeches in Buffalo, near where he lived in Rochester, and where a statue of him in his home town has been repeatedly vandalized.

In 1869, this Black Republican gave a speech called “Our Composite Nation.”

He promoted a vision of a country that welcomed and was strengthened by diversity. And

he denounced fears that were being stirred up against Chinese immigrants. He said that the idea that “the Caucasian race may not be able to hold their own” against immigrants “does not seem entitled to much respect.” Truth.

Replacement ideology is still not worthy of respect. It is toxic.

And it promotes violence. The man arrested for the killings in Buffalo reportedly claimed that he picked up his anti-Semitic and racist beliefs from some of the unsavory corners of the internet.

“Replacement ideology is toxic and promotes violence.”

by its willingness to use the ideology of violent White supremacists to try to stir up voters and win elections. This is playing with fire. And if it continues, we will all get burned, again and again.

There is a more honorable path for the Republican Party. I believe national Republicans should go to Buffalo. They should reflect on the killings that were motivated by racist ideas.

They should reflect on the legacy of Frederick Douglass. And they should consider the life of a more recent Republican, the late Jack Kemp. Kemp had been a quarterback for the Buffalo Bills.

Then he became a Republican congressman representing western New York. And he ran for president as both a Republican and a card-carrying member of the NAACP. “I can’t help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with,” Kemp said.

We urgently need more of our national leaders to embrace Douglass’s broad vision of a strong and diverse America, and Jack Kemp’s recognition of our shared humanity. And we need more people, both politicians and regular folks, to have the courage to consistently call out bigotry when we hear it and to hold accountable those who spread it.

He decided to kill Black people in Buffalo. Others who were twisted by the same racist ideas chose to kill Latinos in El Paso, Jews in Pittsburgh, Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand. Unfortunately, millions of Americans are hearing variations of the replacement rhetoric from irresponsible politicians and cable TV personalities.

They falsely claim that Democrats want “open borders” so they can replace American voters with what Tucker Carlson called “more obedient voters from the Third World.” Carlson has used that Ben Jealous serves as president kind of rhetoric more than 400 of “People For the American Way” times on his highly rated show. and professor of the Practice at the It is becoming a party defined University of Pennsylvania.

Chaos or Community relatively high levels of interpersonal trust, concern for others, and trust in public agencies—all Fifty-five years ago this month, reinforced by generally wellMartin Luther King, Jr. published coordinated and rational public his fourth and final book: “Where health measures. Combined, all Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” In it he described these elements helped to limit the turmoil then engulfing Amerithe loss of life in Australia to procan cities as representing a new portionately one-tenth that of phase in the struggle for freedom: the U.S. as a shift from a primary focus on Yet all was not disorder and dismantling Southern apartheid confusion in our own country. to a broader grappling with racOther forms and manifestations ism and economic inequality naof community were clear and tionwide. present in the year 2020, includExtending his analysis globing unprecedented efforts to ally, Dr. King called for an end register voters and record their to the madness of the Vietnam votes accurately.

War, for an eradication of global Despite the constraints of the poverty, and for a recognition pandemic and increasing restric“Chaos grows when of nonviolence as the only sane tions on voting itself, groups like powerful economic unions and other organizations path forward.

Dr. King’s ideas and words (e.g. the New Georgia Project) interests dominate resonate today, but it is the last canvassed hundreds of thouthe public sphere.” phrase of the title, “chaos or sands of homes, engaging citicommunity,” that speaks most zens in the democratic process. sharply to our time.

Ultimately, 81,284,666 AmerThe word “chaos” is under- messages, he said that the virus icans cast their votes for change. stood as meaning “disorder” and would “miraculously go away” in a The flourishing of community “confusion,” and when it flourish- few months’ time, that it was “like requires different kinds of work, es it becomes increasingly diffi- a flu” and was “very mild.” different kinds of sacrifice, at Trump falsely claimed that the different times. At one historical cult, if not impossible, to achieve socially desirable goals. Chaos FDA had deemed the anti-malar- moment, it may mean getting grows when powerful economic ial drug chloroquine as effective on a bus to eradicate apartheid interests dominate the public against the coronavirus, and he on interstate transportation. At sphere—and when democracy disparaged the mask wearing another, it may mean joining a is impaired both by that domina- that was deemed as essential by school walkout to say “no” to the tion and by institutional barriers many health experts, going so madness of unregulated firearms. far as to hold large indoor, and such as the filibuster.

And at still other times, it may It grows when conditions largely unmasked, rallies in Ne- simply entail a certain kind of grow ripe for the emergence of vada and other states, flouting choosing: to read and listen carelocal public health rules limiting fully, to choose civil discourse demagogic leadership.

Community, on the other such gatherings. over hateful cacophony, and to After the November 3, 2020 take a quiet moment in marking hand, is rooted in a recognition of the interrelations of all persons election, Trump checked out of a ballot on behalf of those perand living beings, and in a sense any personal involvement in the sons and measures that best repof responsibility toward the thriv- fight against COVID, focusing in- resent the possibility and hope of stead on the false and destructive deepened community. ing of those beings.

Inasmuch as we recently search for votes that could overpassed the grievous milestone turn that election. By January 20, Andrew Moss, syndicated by marking the death by COVID of 2021, more than 400,000 Ameri- PeaceVoice, is an emeritus profesone million Americans, it merits cans had died from the virus. sor (English, Nonviolence Studies) By contrast, other nations at the California State Polytechnic a brief review of our recent history to see how both chaos and such as Australia benefited from University, Pomona.

By Andrew Moss

community continue to contend in our nation.

To its credit, the Trump administration authorized the development of vaccines that have done much to blunt the lethality of the coronavirus. And yet, as many analysts have noted, the lies and inconsistent messaging emanating from that administration did much to exacerbate the crisis.

Early on, when information about the seriousness of the virus became available, Trump acknowledged its lethal nature when he was interviewed by journalist Bob Woodward. Yet soon after, and in many subsequent

Tim Walz, as well as communi- reporters and columnists who cating well over a dozen times have written about the death of with official contacts at the FIU Winston Smith.

Winston Smith is still dead. and over a dozen Star Tribune

The report is still not public.

Charles Underwood is a Minneapolis resident.

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Center for Economic Inclusion and Growth & Justice form new alliance A new strategic alliance that will transfer the resources and assets of Growth & Justice to the Center for Economic Inclusion was announced last week by leaders of the two organizations.

“For 20 years, Growth & Justice has been at the forefront of supporting communities across the state in developing policies to generate inclusive economic growth and equitably distribute opportunity in ways that close racial and spatial disparities,” said Tawanna A. Black, founder and chief executive officer of the Center for Economic Inclusion in a statement.

“We are grateful to the leaders of Growth & Justice for capitalizing on this opportunity to leverage their legacy and assets by investing in the future impact of the Center for Economic Inclusion for the good of all Minnesotans,” said Black.

Said Jane Leonard, president of Growth & Justice, “This acquisition combines and magnifies efforts by both organizations to advance racial and economic

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Contunued from page 10 said of Correa, who signed with Minnesota last winter as a free agent. “I was just kind of filling in for the moment.”

We also talked about the

justice. Both our organizations have emphasized that racial equity and inclusion are beneficial and necessary for business and community vitality.”

Leonard added, “We are thrilled that the Center for Economic Inclusion will now be able to use our Minnesota Equity Blueprint and Minnesota Equity Map to bring special attention to successful efforts in rural and Greater Minnesota, complementing the Center’s focus on the Twin Cities metropolitan area.’’

The Center for Economic Inclusion is an applied research, policy and action institute committed to catalyzing and sustaining employer and policy maker action to close racial wealth gaps and build prosperous, equitable and thriving regional economies.

Founded in 2017, the Center is the nation’s first

Black woman-founded and led organization dedicated exclusively to this work. On June 21, the Center will release its 2022 State of Racial Equity Report and the 2022 Indicators for an Inclusive Regional Economy. Learn more at CenterforEconomicInclusion.org.

Growth & Justice, founded in 2002, has been a leading think tank in Minnesota, focusing on research and advocacy for statewide public policies that advance racial and economic justice, making a case that a more widely shared prosperity drives healthier economic growth. For further detail on the legacy of Growth & Justice, see this bit.ly/CenterEconomicInclusion.

Source: Center for Economic Inclusion and Growth & Justice.

2022 experimental rules that are in the minor leagues, using them as guinea pigs to see if the rules could be utilized in the majors one day: larger bases (from 15 inches to 18 inches square), automated ball-strike (ABS or ‘robo-umps’), and expanded pitch clock. The pitch timer

means batters are required to be ready to hit and pitchers ready to pitch within an allotted time.

The pitch clock especially bothers Lewis, he admitted.

“Man, it’s tough. I will say it’s really tough to adjust to it. You literally have five seconds to get in the [batter’s] box. I don’t

think that’s right, because the pitchers have a full 15 seconds to get on the mound, get their sign and throw.

“I think even the umpires don’t really like it,” said Lewis. “I just played a different game growing up [in California]... I’m learning how to deal with all of it.”

Two days after Lewis spoke with us in St. Paul, the player was recalled by the Twins and played centerfield for the first time in the majors. As he went to catch his fourth fly ball chance, Lewis crashed into the wall, fell to the ground, but held on to the ball for

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PROBATE MENTAL HEALTH DIVISION NOTICE OF INFORMAL APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

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Roger J. Newman, Deceased TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND CREDITORS: Notice is given that an application for informal appointment of personal representative has been filed with the Registrar. No will has been presented for probate. The application has been granted.

Notice is hereby given that informal appointment of Amber Dormanen, whose address is PO Box 17370 Lot 3135, St. Paul, MN 55117 as personal representative of the estate of the above-named decedent, has been made. 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 and the personal representative is empowered to fully administer the estate including, after 28 days from the date of issuance of letters, the power to sell, encumber, lease or distribute real estate, unless objections thereto are filed with the Court (pursuant to Section 524.3-607) and the Court otherwise orders.

Notice is further given that ALL CREDITORS having claims against said estate are required to present the same to said personal representative or to the Probate Court Administrator within four months after the date of this notice or said claims will be barred.

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District Court Second Judicial District Court File Number: 62-CV-22-3015 The Honorable: Sara R. Grewing

Teresa Vazquez,

SUMMONS

Plaintiff, v.

Carlos Morales, Defendant.

THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO the above-named Defendant: 1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff has started a lawsuit against you.

The Plaintiffs 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.

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CASE TYPE: PERSONAL INJURY DISTRICT COURT FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Court File Number: 27-CV-22-8327 The Honorable: Susan Robiner SUMMONS

Tajanae Easter, Defendant.

THIS SUMMONS IS DIRECTED TO the above-named Defendant: 1. YOU ARE BEING SUED. The Plaintiff 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 Case: Oppong-Agyei Lemke Barclay respond to this lawsuit even though itvmay not yet be filed 62-CV-22-1964 with the Court and Size: 3.4167 x 8.75 on this summons. there may be no court file number 2. YOU WITHIN 20 DAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS. Ad Run:MUST REPLY 5/26/22 - 6/9/22 YouOptions: must give or -mail to the person who signed this summons a written reAd sponse 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 Law Office 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.

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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.

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previously retired at LSU. On the court, there Contunued from page 10 Spokesman-Recorder Dissolution without children wasn’t anyone as competiCase Type: tive and focused as AugusIn Re the Marriage of: Amy Lynn Dixon Summons (Check one) tus; off the court, she could “She never got enough PHONE: 612-827-4021 PHONE: Petitioner (first, middle, last) 612-827-4021 x Without Real Estate credit for being as good be the life of the party, said and With Real Estate Matt Dixon Jr a defender that she was,” Whalen. “She’s the funniest FOR BILLING FOR BILLING Respondent (first, middle, last) noted former INQUIRIES INQUIRIESLynx assis- person, but she’s very, very THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: tant Jim Petersen on kind. She’s got a great heart. & TEARSHEETS &coach TEARSHEETS WARNING: Your spouse has filed a lawsuit against you for dissolution of your Augustus. “She was egoless. She is by far the funniest CONTACT marriage. APLEASE copy of the paperwork regarding the lawsuit is served on you with this PLEASE CONTACT summons. This summons is an official document from the court that affects your rights.

She made room for other person I’ve ever met.”

ACCOUNTING DEPT Read this summons carefully. If you do not understand it, contact an attorney for legal ACCOUNTING DEPT Like this columnist, Auplayers when [they] came… advice.

BILLING@SPOKESMAN-RECORDER.COM @BILLING@SPOKESMAN-RECORDER.COMand@that gustus also is a Taurus, was huge.

1. The Petitioner (your spouse) has filed a lawsuit against you asking for dissolution of your “She gave up to be able which may partially explain marriage (divorce). A copy of the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage is attached to this Summons. to win championships,” Pe- why she and I clicked so 2. You must PROBATE serve upon Petitioner and file with the court a written Answer to the Petition for DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE Dissolution of Marriage, and you must pay the required filing fee. Answer forms are available well over the years. Her detersen said of Augustus’ from the court administrator's office. You must serve your Answer upon Petitioner within 1 WEEK RUN sire to be the best is stub2 WEEK RUN sacrificing her game a bit to 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, the court may give your spouse everything FLAT RATE $200.00 PREPAID accommodate others such bornly headstrong.

FEE WAIVED PER COURT he or she is asking for in the Petition for Dissolution of Marriage.

The retired great showed as Maya Moore, Brunson 3. This proceeding involves, affects, or brings into question the real property located at the PLEASE ANY FUTURE ADS SHOULD BE SENT following address m County,NOTE: State of ____ , with the following legal description: and Sylvia Fowles. “She that determination after 4. (For a second property) This proceeding involves, affects, or brings into question the real TO ADS@SPOKESMAN-RECORDER.COM she tore left knee wasPlease part Note: of theNew veryemail lean address property located at the following address: __________________ in forher all future adsACL is ads ________________ County, State of _____, with the following legal description: early in her pro career, as Lynx years and its gravy spokesman-recorder.com The MSR handles billing digitally. then-team surgeon Dr. Joel years as well.”

OR [X] this proceeding does not involve real property.

This means you will get e-tears and e-mailed invoices unNOTICE OF TEMPORARY RESTRAINING PROVISIONS Though she finished her Boyd recalls. “It was unforThe MSR handles billing digitally.

Under Minnesota service of this summonsrequest makes the following lesslaw, you specifically a hardrequirements copy. apply career in Los Angeles (2020), tunate, but she was able to both parties to the action, unless they are modified by the court or the proceeding is This means you will get e-tears and e-mailed invoices unle dismissed: “It was great to feel the love to get back,” he explained. specifically request a hard copy.

(1) Neither party may dispose of any assets except (a) for the necessities of life or for the of the city,” Augustus told “ACL tears are not that unnecessary 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. me during a brief media common, but at the same (2) Neither party may harass the other party.

(3) All currently available insurance coverage must be maintained and continued without scrum after the pre-game time they can be devastatchange in coverage or beneficiary designation. ceremony. “So many great ing. You’re out usually about (4) Parties to a marriage dissolution proceeding are encouraged to attempt alternative dispute resolution pursuant to Minnesota law. Alternative dispute resolution includes mediation, arexperiences with the city eight months or so. bitration and other processes as set forth in the district court rules. You may contact the court “She stepped into it and and with fans. Minnesota administrator about resources m your area. If you cannot pay for mediation or alternative dispute resolution, in some counties, assistance may be available to you through a nonprofit basically helped me become went after her rehab and provider or a court program If you are a victim of domestic abuse or threats as defined in the woman that I am today. did a great job,” said Boyd.

Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 518B, you are not required to try mediation and you will not be penalized by the court in later proceedings.

“I wanted one champi- “She was diligent.”

IF YOU VIOLATE ANY OF THESE PROVISIONS, YOU WILL BE SUBJECT TO Now in her second seaonship. I wanted one gold SANCTIONS BY THE COURT. medal, and I’m leaving here son as a Los Angeles assisDated: with a number of champi- tant coach, Augustus once County and State where signed Signature onships, a number of all- said she had no intention Name: Amy Lynn Dixon star opportunities,” she said. to go into coaching after Street Address: 401 Plymouth Rd City/State/Zip: Minnetonka, MN 55305 Augustus’ honors include her playing days ended. “I’m Telephone: 612-735-5032 three Olympic gold medals, settling in,” she told me with E-mail address: amyldixon 15@yahoo.com determinanamed to the WNBA 20th characteristic Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder June 9, 2022 Anniversary team (2016) tion as she headed to the and 25th Anniversary team visitors’ bench.

(2021), and a two-time EuFrom Classified State of Minnesota District Court roCup MVP (2008, 2009) Ramsey County Second Judicial District Department/MN Charles Hallman welcomes Court File Number: 62-DA-FA-22-455 and 2011 W Finals MVP. reader responses to challman@ Case Type: Domestic Abuse Spokesman-Recorder Her 33 college number was spokesman-recorder.com.

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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

June 9 - 15, 2022

To Respondent named above:

Notice of Hearing by Publication (Minn. Stat. § 518B.01, subd. 8)

An order has been issued directing you to appear at the Ramsey County Juvenile and Family Justice Center, 25 W 7th St , St. Paul MN 55102 on June 20, 2022 at 9:15am and explain why the relief sought in the Petition for the Order for Protection should not be granted.

You may obtain a copy of the Petition and any order issued from the court from the Ramsey County Court Administrator's Office.

If you do not appear at the scheduled hearing, the Petitioner's request may be granted as a default matter. Failure to appear will not be a defense to prosecution for violation of the Court's Order.

Court Administrator Ramsey County District Court

PHONE: 612-827-4021

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Seimone joins Lindsay in the rafters

Sports Boxing event sells out the Armory Local celebs show up in style

By Charles Hallman Sports Columnist

eimone Augustus is a sure-lock hall-of-famer one day. Whenever that happens, she will join her former Minnesota Lynx backcourt mate Lindsay Whalen, who will be inducted in September.

“I first met Seimone at USA Basketball. She was 18 or 19, and I was 21,” recalled Whalen of Augustus. She attended Augustus’ number 33 jersey retirement May 29.

“Minnesota basically helped me become the woman that I am today.”

It now hangs alongside Whalen’s number 13. Next month Rebekkah Brunson’s number 32 will join the two as three of the Lynx’s famed “Core 4” in the rafters of the downtown Minneapolis arena, where also hang all four WNBA championship banners.

“We couldn’t do any of that without each other,” admitted Whalen, now the Gophers WBB coach.

Seimone Augustus as her jersey is retired Courtesy MN Lynx Now retired, Augustus is Minnesota’s franchise leader in points, made field goals, games played and games started. She is this area’s first Black female pro superstar and franchise player. She played 15 WNBA seasons after being the league’s overall top pick in 2006, the first female hoopster in Minnesota history to achieve this feat.

■ See View on page 9

ove over Las Vegas and Atlantic City, two historic locales for bigtime boxing in this country. Minneapolis is now a destination place for championship boxing.

Last Saturday saw the largest crowd ever at the downtown Armory, a sold-out 4,695. Just like Vegas and the Boardwalk, we have our celebrities, politicians, radio personalities, legendary community folk, and a college coach all in attendance at the June 4 evening-long event.

“I never went to any live fights until it came to the Ar- Stephon Fulton, Jr. declared victorious mory,” admitted Hamline Football Coach Chip Taylor, the MI- time coming to the Armory.” works with the current genAC’s only and longest tenured John Baker, a former prep eration of young hoopsters, Black coach. “This is my third basketball star who now observed, “I never seen anything like it.”

WCCO Radio’s Henry Lake said that as impressive as last Saturday’s sellout crowd was, “It actually can get bigger. I think it can ratchet up one more level.”

State Senator Bobby Champion loved it as well: “The pandemic is not over, but it’s good to have people out and to have them here at the Armory.

People are having a good time, people from the North Side and other places, and it’s good to give someone a hug.”

He added that he became a fight fan as a youngster listenDavid Morrell, Jr. celebrates win

Twins’ Lewis shows his versatility — at a cost oyce Lewis made a lot of firsts in his first year in the big leagues. The Minnesota Twins top prospect, after a 11-game stint with the big club last month, was the favorite subject of some lo-

me, I’d love to play short.”

As a result, during his 10game return to St. Paul (May 1928), Lewis played at short (four games), two games at third, two games in left field, a game in centerfield, and designated hit-

Royce Lewis as a Saints player (l) and a Twins player cal media and fans who felt he should not have been sent back to Triple-A St. Paul.

“I think it’s really cool to hear that stuff,” Lewis said after this reporter relayed that information to him while talking in front of the Saints’ dugout. The plan for the former No. 1 top pick was to play other positions besides his natural shortstop.

“I think my natural position is a baseball player,” he said. “I love the game and I’ll play wherever I need to be. But if it was up to

cent history whose demotion drew the ire of media and fans, who loudly disagreed with the Twins’ decision.

“It just means I made an impact on some people, and that’s my whole purpose in life,

Photos by Charles Hallman

just having fun and making an impact,” said the Twins/Saints player without a hint of disappointment. “I learned so much…

I’ve always learned each and every day something new.

“It’s hard to beat out There’s something that you can someone that’s always learn or learn not to do, making $35 million.” but there’s so much I learned up there in those 10, 11 days.”

Lewis said he knew his Carlos Correa, who was injured.

He left a positive impression on time hasn’t come yet: “It’s hard to beat out someone players and fans alike.

Lewis might be the first that’s making $35 million,” he Black baseball player in re■ See SOE on page 8 ter (one game). The 22-year-old is forecasted as the Twins’ shortstop of the future and played there as a fill-in for the regular

Photos by Esther Lin/Showtime ing to stories from longtime community activist Spike Moss, who in his day was a Golden Gloves fighter. He too was in

“It was real boxing, old fashioned scrapping.” the record crowd last Saturday.

Taylor got hooked on boxing as a youngster “watching fights on ABC,” he said.

David Morrell, Jr. retained his WBA world super middleweight title with a 4th round

■ See Boxing on page 9

Hughes qualifies for state uriad Hughes, a sophomore at Irondale High School, recently qualified for the state track and field meet with a second place finish in the 100 meter run (10.89) and third place finish in the 200 (22.58). Hughes, who also played football and basketball at the varsity level this past year, anchored the 4x100 relay team of Kato Samkula, Charles Kikeh, and Ralph Naimah.

St. Paul track and field The St. Paul Central boys’ track and field team recently captured top honors at the City Conference meet behind outstanding performances from Harlow Tong, Dre’vonnte Dunkins, Carlton Mukurazita and Esli Jalloh in addition to the 4x200 and 4x400 relay teams.

Tong won the 100 (11.14) and 200 meter runs (22.97), Dunkins turned in top performances in the 400 meters (52.83) and the triple jump (40’ 10”), Mukurazita captured the long jump title (19’ 41/2”), and Jalloh did likewise in the shot put (37’ 7½ ”).

Tong qualified for the state meet in the 100 and 200 while Mukurazita will compete in the triple jump.

St. Como Park 1600 and 3200 meter champ Charlie Power-Theisen (with times of 4:31.34 and 9:51.50 respectively) also qualified for the state meet in both events.

Maleyna Carter won the

Juriad Hughes long jump (15’ 8½ ”) and anchored the 4 x 100 relay team to victory in leading St. Paul Central to the girls’ track and field championship St. Paul Washington’s Jaeden Sims, who recently qualified for the state meet in the triple jump, was also the city champ in that event with a jump of 35’ 23 ¾ ”.

St. Paul Johnson ninth-grader Sadie Mays won the 100.

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Javion Hill won the 100 and 200 meter runs with times of 11.47 and 23.27 respectively.

He also anchored the 4x100 relay team of Zelaun Black, Navier Jiles and Kameron Clay.

Clay was also the 400 meter champion with a time of 52.45.

Minneapolis Southwest’s Hakeem Ford was the champion in the long jump (20’ 9½ ”) and triple jump (39’ 6½ ”).

Minneapolis South’s ShanMinneapolis track and field ice Cox won the 100 (13.04) There were plenty of out- and 200 (26.43) standing performances at the Minneapolis City Conference Dr. Mitchell Palmer McDonald track and field meet. welcomes reader responses to Minneapolis North sprinter mcdeezy05@gmail.com.