Summer Guide

Jonathan McReynolds

June 22 – 7:00 p.m.

The Fillmore – 525 Fifth Street North, Minneapolis

Grammy, Dove and Stellar award-winner Jonathan McReynolds continues his “My Truth Tour.”

On the heels of his fifth-consecutive Billboard Gospel National Airplay #1 single, “Your World,” McReynolds now lifts a brand-new track, “Able” featuring Marvin Winans. For more info, visit bit.ly/JonathanMcReynolds.

15th Annual Community Empowerment through Black Men Healing Conference

June 22 – 23

Metropolitan State University, Founder’s Hall – 700 East Seventh Street, St. Paul

The 15th Annual Community Empowerment Through Black Men Healing Conference will explore practical trauma-informed, culture-sensitive, outcome-driven, current and future approaches that can lead to community empowerment and healing. The conference is open to men and women of all cultures working with the African American community or interested in the topic. For more info, visit www.brothershealing.com.

Juneteenth: Celebration of Freedom

June 23 – 8:00 p.m.

Minnesota Orchestra – 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis

The Minnesota Orchestra presents a program in honor of Juneteenth. With conductor André Raphel at the podium, the concert includes Adolphus Hailstork’s jubilant “Three Spirituals” and William Grant Still’s “Afro-American” Symphony, one of the most celebrated American symphonies ever written. Singer Jevetta Steele, performance poet Malcolm-Jamal Warner, and Justice Alan C. Page all lend their voices to this evening of celebration and remembrance. For more info, visit bit.ly/JuneteenthMNOrchestra.

The 25th Annual Twin Cities Jazz Fest

June 23 – 24

Mears Park – 221 Fifth Street East, Lowertown, St. Paul

The Twin Cities Jazz Fest is a non-profit organization with the mission of bringing communities together to enjoy and appreciate the art form of jazz and inspire new generations of youth. This year’s lineup includes headliners Paquito D’Rivera and the Dizzy Gillespie Afro Latin Experience, Camille Thurman with the Darrell Green Quartet, Christian McBride, Lucia Sarmiento, and Nabaté Isles. Admission is free. For more info, visit www.twincitiesjazzfestival.com.

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Wayzata Art Experience

June 23 – 25

300 to 600 Lake Street East – Wayzata

The Wayzata Art Experience, held in the heart of downtown Wayzata, provides a two-day celebration of art, music, food and fun for all ages. Established in 2004, the Wayzata Art Experience is held on the shores of Lake Minnetonka. For more info, visit artexperience.wayzatachamber.com.

Soul Food Festival

Marks added that this year’s draft is top heavy with underclassmen or players who bypassed college to enter the NBA draft early. “It’s a big challenge as far as finding impact players now instead of a 19- or 20-year-old that’s probably going to be really good two years from now.”

“A lot of people look at this as a three-player draft,” Givony concluded.

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Whetstone coached the Texas A&M Women’s Club Basketball Team to a 31-4 record and a 2018 club championship, as well as a regional title in 2019. During that time, she also served as operations assistant for the Aggies women’s volleyball team. When she was asked to

June 24 – 4:00 p.m.

Farmers Market Annex – 200 East Lyndale Avenue, Minneapolis

The Soul Food Festival, returning to downtown Minneapolis for its third year, promises to be bigger and better. The fest is presented by The Black Market, an organization that seeks to positively impact 10,000 African American and women-led businesses over the next 10 years. For more info, visit bit.ly/TBMSoulFoodFestival.

Roots, Vol. I A Journey Through African American Music Towards Community Healing

June 24 – 25

The Capri Theater – 2027 West Broadway, Minneapolis

Greta Oglesby presents this journey through African American music—spirituals, jazz, blues, and gospel—with Sanford Moore and the Kingdom Life Ensemble. For more info, visit capri.simpletix.com.

Black to Nature: Trees & Community

June 25 – 1-3 p.m.

Carl Kroening Nature Center, North Mississippi Regional Park – 4900 Mississippi Ct., Minneapolis

Enjoy an afternoon of celebrating the strength and beauty of trees. Meet a tree person on stilts, learn about trees on a guided walk, and create a wood craft with Northside community artists. At 2 pm, attendees will honor those who have passed on with a tree planting ceremony. For more info, visit bit.ly/BlacktoNatureTreesCommunity

Black Girl Joy

June 25-26 – 2-5 p.m.

Midtown Global Market – 920 East Lake Street, Minneapolis

“Black Girl Joy” is described as a healing space to celebrate Black women. With all that’s happening in the Twin Cities, it’s important to recognize those who are often at the forefront of organizing, protesting, serving, and protecting the community. For more info, visit knownmpls. com/event-details/black-girl-joy coach the volleyball team, she admitted, “I didn’t realize I’d be doing everything by myself. “I had a real solid group of 12 girls that listened to me, that understood what I was trying to do. And understood I was trying to win.

“That really shaped me. After that, I really knew I could coach” and run a program effectively, she said.

Wearing multiple hats along with coaching is par for the course at a junior college such as Madison College, a twoyear community college where students can earn an associate degree, technical diploma, or certificate in one of more than 180 programs. Along with her coaching duties, Whetstone is also the school’s eligibility, compliance, and game-management coordinator.

“I have been doing administration work for a while,” she said.

Whetstone joins the growing number of Black women hired as head basketball coaches at all levels. “I can say there has been improvement. Sometimes I feel like there’s a lack of representation of people that look like me in the majority of these [head coaching] positions.”

Whetstone looks forward to her first season leading the Madison College women’s basketball program, where she inherits a club that went 8-20 last season and has only six first-year players eligible to return this season.

“This is a great university,” said Whetstone. “I’m excited to be able to build and try something new.”

Charles Hallman welcomes reader comments at challman@ spokesman-recorder.com.

The MSR will publish a weekly guide to summer festivals, concerts, fireworks, and fun activities through Labor Day weekend and the fall equinox. The calendar will include events for foodies, stargazers, art and music lovers, and outdoor enthusiasts to enjoy over the summer. a media call. “You have the first tier, which is Victor. The second tier, which is Brandon Miller [Alabama] and Scoot Henderson [G League Ignite]. And then that third tier is pretty wide with the Thompson twins [Amen and Ausar] (Overtime Elite), [Cam] Whitmore (Villanova), Jarace Walker (Houston), Anthony Black (Arkansas), [Taylor] Hendricks (UCF), Gradey Dick (Kansas).”