Glover added, “I will pro mote a dementia-friendly community and encourage the BIPOC population to become educated about de mentia and the risk factors for dementia.
Memory & Mobile Clinic (a clinic on wheels) with culturally sensi tive community health work ers and a registered nurse. Organizations interested in do ing dementia education training or health screen outreach at a com munity event or health fair can contact the Culturally Responsive Caregiver Support and Dementia Services team by calling 952-9454034 or visiting VOAMN.org. Nikki
After 18 years of service, Dorothea Harris has retired as the director of Volunteers of America’s (VOA) Culturally Responsive Caregiver Sup port and Dementia Services.
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On Sept. 10, community members hit West Broadway in North Mpls. to enjoy one of the season’s last Open Streets. Find more photos on spokesman-recorder.com.
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Louis Moore, president of the Major Taylor Bicycling Club, and Jerry Ciardelli of Erdahl Aerial Photography, rode through the Open Streets Festival on West Broadway in Minneapolis. By the way, Moore is 82 years old and Jerry Ciardelli is a spry 77.
Harris said she plans to re locate to Houston, Texas, and continue serving in whatever capacity God has planned for her. Stepping into her shoes as director will be Tuesday Glover, a longtime senior health advocate who was mentored by Harris at VOA.
VOA’s Culturally Respon sive Caregiver Support and Dementia Services imple ments health screenings that include culturally sensitive memory screens, blood pres glucose, and cholesterol checks, and uti lizes a Healthy Aging Love
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On August 30, colleagues, peers, community leaders, el ders, and state and national partners gathered at the VOA center in North Minneapolis for a brief program and cel ebration to wish Harris well.
“I plan to explore creative ways to defeat the cultural health disparity and address the systematic barriers that chal lenge people of color. Our team will continue to use the personcenter healthcare model by meeting our people right where they are at, in the community.”
Photo by Nikki Love
“Dorothea is a leader who promoted health literacy, caregiver support, stress management and dementia education in communities
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Dorothea Harris
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of color and the older adult population,” said Glover. “I am also passionate about the health of the community VOA serves and will continue Dorothea’s legacy. Dorothea was an awesome leader and mentor to me.”
Longtime senior health advocate passes the torch
Its advantages are that it does not require surgery or electricity, fits in a pocket, and no additional supplies are needed. It is especially de sirable if the patient travels frequently, because although CPAP can be brought onto the plane without being counted as baggage or carry on, the abil ity to use it on a plane is limited by the need for electricity, as well the very visible mask and hose. With an oral appliance the patient can simply put it in their mouth and sleep with less snoring and apnea, which is particularly useful for trans atlantic flights, especially when for business, so that you arrive feeling rested.
Generally two incisions are made, one for the stimula tor on the chest wall and the other on the neck to attach the stimulator lead to the anterior division of 12 cra
The effects of untreated sleep apnea impact all aspects of life, and therefore treating it improves health and wellness on all levels. The bottom line is that sleep apnea is treatable
If you have daytime tired ness, hypertension that is difficult to control, atrial fibril lation, diabetes, a history of heart attacks or strokes prior to age 60, or other comorbidi ties, please talk to your health care provider to be screened for sleep apnea.
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By Niara Savage Contributing Writer
The cause of the associa tion between religiosity, spiri tuality and heart health among Black Americans could lie in access and exposure to edu cation about physical wellness, said LaPrincess Brewer, a pre ventative cardiologist with the Mayo Clinic and first author on the “Attendingstudy.religious services may expose individuals to more health and wellness-re lated information through ser mons and Bible studies, which
Black Americans who are more involved in spiritual and religious practices are more likely to have better heart health, according to a new study from researchers with the Mayo ResearchersClinic.analyzed data from nearly 3,000 participants and found that those who re ported they were more likely to take part in religious or spiritual behaviors were more
Black Americans with greater levels of religiosity and
What I am most often hav ing to educate patients about who come to the office with questions is the fact that it involves surgery. In an initial surgery called a drug-induced sleep endoscopy, the physi
nial nerves that cause tongue protrusion. Once the patient has healed from the surgery, over the course of the next month, the device is tested and turned on and checked for efficacy. The baseline cri teria to be a candidate for consideration for the Inspire Implant upper airway stimula tion is age 22 -65 years, close to ideal body weight, AHI 20 -65, failed prior attempts with CPAP or oral appliance thera py with additional hesitancy if with any other implant stimu lating devices eg. Pacemaker.
Dr. Inell Rosario is a boardcertified ENT and sleep physician practicing at Andros ENT & Sleep Center in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. She has many times been recognized as a Top Doctor and Best Doctor in various Min nesota magazines and can be reached at drrosario@androsentsleep.com or 651-888-7800.
Directed consumer market ing has become a leading meth od of patient education, which thankfully brings them into the office with more informed questions and ownership of their health management. You have heard the commercials: If you have a CPAP you can get rid of your mask and hose and treat your sleep apnea with just a push of a button.
So who is a candidate for the cranial nerve XII stimu lating implant? Upper airway stimulation implants have been around for more than 20 years, but with recent market ing they have gained tremen dous patient awareness and have become more and more the subject of conversation as to patient candidacy.
CPAP
Treating sleep apnea improves health and wellness on all levels.
By Dr. Inell Rosario Guest Contributor
Oral appliances
The gold standard of treatment of obstructive sleep apnea is continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP. Sometimes, depending on severity of apnea, desatura tion, and specific type of apnea, bilevel therapy or BiPAP may be needed to completely rid one of the respiratory events.
CPAP’s huge advantage is that there is no downtime or surgical intervention that is needed, it is widely available, and for the most part it pro vides instantaneous relief to persons with sleep apnea. Its drawbacks are related to needing to be plugged in or the expense of the battery that is not often covered by insurance; daily cleaning and use of an externally visible in terface with monthly replace ment of filters; and quarterly to biannual replacement of the mask or its parts.
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spirituality were more likely to have intermediate or ideal lev els of heart health according to the metric. Degree of religios ity was assessed based on fre quency of church attendance and private prayer, as well as religious coping, or reliance on religious practices to adapt to difficult life Researcherssituations.gauged par ticipants’ spirituality using the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale to assess the frequency of the istic experiences like feeling God’s presence, desiring closer
union with God, feeling God’s love. They also measured non theistic experiences like feel ing strength in one’s religion, feeling deep inner peace and harmony, and feeling spiritually touched by Specifically,creation. increased church attendance was asso ciated with more physical ac tivity while private prayer was associated with a more satis factory diet and less smoking. Total spirituality was associat ed with more physical activity and less smoking.
Just to make sure all are on the same knowledge level, in obstructive sleep apnea there are pauses in your breathing where airflow is diminished by 30% or more. If those events are happening 5-15 times an hour, then it is considered mild apnea; 16-30 is moder ate apnea; and greater than 30
Obstructive sleep apnea: Can you get rid of the mask and hose?
and there are more and more methods being discovered and used to effectively treat it.
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cian assesses the type of air way collapse looking to see if it is concentric. This means the airway collapses as a circle narrowing and from all sides, as opposed to collapsing an terior to posterior in a more horizontal fashion.
The CPAP machine itself delivers pressurized air to the upper airway by a hose and in terface or mask. The interface or mask can range from the typical one imagined covering the nose and mouth, or a less invasive sitting in the nostril similar to an oxygen cannula.
Mayo study shows link between spirituality and Black heart health
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Oral appliance therapy is probably the second most com monly used method of treating sleep apnea. It is essentially an upper and lower dental tray
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likely to score higher on the American Heart Association Life’s Simple 7 metric.
If the collapse is concentric, the patient is not considered a candidate for the implant. For patients who are candidates, a second surgery is gener ally scheduled for about two hours for placement of a stim ulator with a respiratory sens ing lead and stimulation lead.
events an hour would be con sidered severe sleep apnea.
For the past 25 years I have been a practicing ear, nose, throat and sleep sur geon who is board certified in sleep medicine. I cannot recall a time where I have had so many patients come into the office wanting to ditch their CPAP (continuous posi tive airway pressure) machine in search of other means of sleep apnea therapy.
that interlocks and advances the lower jaw or mandible for ward. By bringing the mandible forward it brings the tongue forward, which opens up the posterior airway space.
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Further, a 2021 exposé in The Guardian revealed docu ments that shed light on Eliza beth’s continued exemption from race and sex discrimina tionInvestigativelaws.
We are also going to do listening sessions with the community. I want the community to hold us accountable. I want the people to say to us that our youth, senior, or workforce programs are working.
However, in a stunning move, Albert’s brother, King Edward VIII, abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry an American woman, which allowed for Albert’s ascen sion as King George VI—thus making Elizabeth heir to the throne.OnNov. 20, 1947, Elizabeth married her distant cousin, Lt. Philip Mountbatten of the Royal Navy. The former Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, Philip then took the titles of duke of Edinburgh, earl of Mer ioneth, and Baron Greenwich.
MSR: Should community centers take stronger positions on important issues?
Queen of an empire
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SR: I can’t speak for the past. But because the building was always full, programs were well-funded, some times we tend to become complacent
Her tenure ended when she was fired in September 2021 amid decreas ing morale after she disbanded the city’s SWAT team. Brackney is currently suing several police officers, as well as City leadership. She was one of three Black women on a force that is 90% White.
“We serve anybody who walks through our doors. But we try and serve through a Black lens.”
SR: We have several in operation teaching our men how to respect and practice love amongst ourselves. I think that is important. We have to stop these unhealthy competitions among each other, and start focus ing on what we can do together as opposed to having to defeat him or her to get ahead.
Metro Transit Police is also looking for a police chief after former chief Eddie Frizell became the U.S. Marshall for the District of Minnesota in April. The Metropolitan Council, which over sees Metro Transit, is preparing to begin soliciting applications for the position.
Al Brown welcomes reader responses to Thisabrown@spokesman-recorder.com.interviewwaseditedforspace.Forthefullinterview,visitspokesman-recorder.com.
They said Buckingham Pal ace didn’t dispute their findings. Instead, officials offered with out explanation that there’s a separate process for hearing discrimination complaints.
SR: We have a lot of activities going on. We even have tables of Bid Whist every Friday with healthy food that’s catered.
“England has enjoyed the benefit of our slave labor right up to today, and they need to be honest, admit it, and find a way to reconcile,” Mikael insisted. “Most people couldn’t care less if [Elizabeth] is head of state or not. The Queen is not a significant part of anybody’s agenda.”Witha reported net worth of nearly $12 billion, Elizabeth has never publicly spoken about reparations.
Lambert noted that the system of slavery saw its dis mantling in the early 19th cen tury, and the enslaved received freedom in the British Carib bean in the 1830s. A system called Apprenticeship “was put in place from 1834 to 1838
Americans are pretty familiar with.
The person ultimately nominated and confirmed will replace Arradondo. Although Interim Chief Amelia Huff man did not advance to the final round of interviews and can still be nominat ed to the position by Mayor Jacob Frey, a spokesperson for Frey said he plans to respect the search process and not nominateMinneapolisher. is not the only police force in the Twin Cities looking for a chief. St. Paul, whose chief Todd Axtell retired in June, is currently reviewing applications and plans to select up to five finalists for Mayor Melvin Carter to consider. The process may involve community engagement.
exemption has made it impos sible for women or people from ethnic minorities working for her household to complain to the courts if they believe they have been discriminated against,” the journalists found.
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investigation into the royal fam ily’s use of an arcane parliamenta ry procedure, known as Queen’s consent, to influence the content of British laws secretly.
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Antiguan businesswoman Makeda Mikael recalled how as a child she attended cer emonies against her will that celebrated the Queen. “We didn’t know as much about our history then as we do now.
“I think a Black woman in particular was going to get a lot of pushback from a department like the one that
The lineage Born Apr. 21, 1926, the eventual Queen’s given name was Elizabeth Alexandra Mary. Her father, Prince Albert, was the youngest son of King George V, and Albert’s place in the family presumably gave Elizabeth little chance to ascend to the throne.
Stacy M. Brown is the NNPA Newswire senior national correspondent.
across most of the Caribbean. This was intended to provide a transition to freedom for the formerly enslaved people and the planters who relied on their labor. Even after Appren ticeship was ended, things remained very unequal.”
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MSR: Can you talk a bit about the effects that you’ve seen in the community post-George Floyd’s murder?
Harry expressed frustration over the lack of family support when British media members and others launched racially motivated insults at Markle. “For us, for this union and the specif ics around her race, there was an opportunity—many opportuni ties—for my family to show some public support,” Harry stated dur ing the same interview.
MSR: Our community has historically faced violence in many ways, from police brutality to violence against each other. Are there any antiviolence programs at Sabathani?
journalists David Pegg and Rob Evans said they discovered papers at the National Archives as part of an ongoing
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In 2020, when Antigua and Barbuda marked 40 years of independence from Britain, calls grew louder for slavery reparations. Frustration with the Queen and colonialism
However, the palace offered only tepid responses. Before and during Elizabeth’s reign, journalists claimed the royal family looked the other way— and even enabled racism.
and around the globe called on the Queen to deal with the fallout over complaints that Buckingham Palace had no official response to the murder of George Floyd and the global Black Lives Matter Movement.
Down south, Brackney was appointed chief of Charlottesville’s police in 2018 months after the city was ravaged by a White Supremacist riot that its police force did a poor job managing, according to reports. She is also a visiting professor at George Mason University and was the police chief for George Washington Univer sity in Washington, D.C. She served as a police officer in Pittsburgh from 2000 to 2015.
and disconnected from the commu nity we are meant to serve. I’m speak ing in general, not to anyone’s time in particular.
Silence on racism
We serve from a perspective of our Black history and resources, such as a recent job fair that was held this past weekend. We partnered with Xcel Energy, WCCO, and the Center for Energy and Environment (CEE).
“They reveal how the Queen’s chief financial officer once informed civil servants that “it was not, in fact, the practice to appoint colored immigrants or foreigners” to clerical roles in the royal household, although they were permitted to work as domestic servants.
“These incidents aren’t just historical. Royal family members have been ignoring accusations of racism since as recently as June 2020, when the Queen failed to respond to accusations that the royal honors medal is ‘highly offensive’ and resembles the killing of Floyd,” Royal Insid ers Mikhaila Friel and Rachel Hosie wrote in 2021.
Jeff Weber, who is the president of the Fraternal Order of Police Newark Lodge No. 12 and was a classmate of O’Hara’s when they were both in the police academy, attested to his work ethic, approach ability, and fairness in handling the consent decree.
SR: We have to be ready to speak with a strong voice relating to issues that affect our community directly or indirectly. Take the economic, educa tional, and criminal justice disparities in our state, for example. It’s so bad that some even joke that [Minnesota is] Mississippi with snow. When you look at how many of our brothers and sisters are incarcerated in Minne
No reparations
Her tenure in Charlottesville was tumultuous amid ongoing racial dis parities in policing and incarceration. Before she was chief, police were more likely to stop and frisk Blacks than Whites, and Blacks were more likely to be imprisoned than Whites.
MSR: More specifically, what programs are at Sabathani for seniors?
We must learn that when done right, there is often enough for every one. There is a saying that there is always enough for everyone’s need, but not nearly enough for everyone’s greed.
The couple’s first child, Prince Charles Philip Arthur George, was born on Nov. 14, 1948, at Buckingham Palace. On Feb. 6, 1952, King George VI died after a months-long illness, and Elizabeth became Queen—though her coronation took place more than a year later at Westminster Abbey.
Elizabeth also gave birth to Princess Anne in 1950, Prince Andrew in 1960, and Prince Edward in 1964. With Eliza beth’s death, Charles became the first King since his grandfather’s death more than 70 years ago.
We have to be more aggressive in preparing our people for the real chal lenges that we face. That also means that sometimes we have to make some feel uncomfortable. Look at how long Blacks have been uncomfortable in this country.
“Young people can’t relate to the Royal Family; they don’t understand their purpose. Even older people like me would love to see us become a republic. The head of state should be someone who is elected like in America,” Ford concluded.
I spoke with Xcel about high employment disparities in this com munity and suggested that if they were truly committed to working with Sabathani that we should present a career fair. I asked him to bring his hir ing team in and make available to our community legitimate living wage jobs of $25 per hour or more. In Minnesota, the Black community normally does not have access to these jobs.
Minneapolis is not the only police force in the Twin Cities looking for a chief.
It is unclear if she received citizen complaints during her tenure in Pitts burgh, as their Citizen Police Review Board holds confidential all complaints unless it goes before a public hearing.
MSR: What is the biggest challenge currently faced by Sabathani?
ing a Black church member who was stopped by five police officers, one of whom was Black, who accused them of committing a series of burglaries.
Earlier, many in Great Britain
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“In school, I wasn’t taught African or Caribbean history. So I knew everything about British and European history and noth ing about ours.” She told the BBC she and others would con tinue to demand reparations.
I would love to have had a round table conversation with former Police Chief Medaria Arradondo. It is these unlikely conversations that our com munity does not have with the major players of influence in our commu nities. What better place to have these conversations than a place like Sabathani.
SR: I wasn’t here when that horrific incident took place. Feb. 28, 2022 was my first day at Sabathani. But George Floyd happened right in our front yard on 38th and Chicago, and people in this community are still hurting. But I still think that more conversations need to happen within this community and the police department.
police department.”
sota, it’s hard to separate us from our Southern counterparts.
SR: I think more participation from the community to fully utilize all our wonderful services. Also, we started an advisory panel to voice their opin ion, keeping us accountable to the needs of our community. It is easy to say whether this worked or didn’t work, but it’s harder to walk away from something when you are a part of it.When your input is used to help design these programs and outcomes, it’s harder to walk away. I believe that if the community is a part of our pro grams from their inception we cannot fail. We can’t afford to fail, because our
we have here,” said Slocum. “I do not know that anyone could have been effective with the way things had got ten with the city and this particular
“It’s hard to imagine the Queen showing support for BLM—and anti-racism in gen eral—when in her 69 years on the throne, she has failed to address the racism that undeni ably exists in the institution of the royal family,” the duo con cluded.
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The finalists were chosen after Min neapolis engaged a national search firm and appointed a committee that comprised two city council mem bers—Andrea Jenkins and Latrisha Vetaw—as well as Bishop Richard D. Howell of Shiloh Temple Ministries, Karin Birkeland of the Minneapolis Parks Foundation, Lisa Clemons of A Mother’s Love, Chanda Smith Baker of the Minneapolis Foundation, Mike Goze of the Native American Commu nity Development Institute, Sara Jones of the Great North Innocence Project, Susana de Leon of the law firm De Leon, Nestor, and Torres, retired assis tant Minneapolis police chief Greg Hestness, Chief Financial Officer of Investment Bank Piper Sander Tim Carter, and Emma Pederson of the Minneapolis Youth Congress.
Pegg and Evans wrote that the Queen had remained exempted from equality laws for more than four decades. “The
MSR: There has been some turnover at the management level at Sabathani over time. Do you have any thoughts on why that may be?
No coloreds allowed
MSR: Regarding economic and education improvement, are there specific programs offered at Sabathani?
“Along with a number of
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colonies in North America, the Caribbean formed the heart of England’s first overseas empire,” explained David Lambert, pro fessor of Caribbean History at the University of Warwick. “The English settled St. Kitts in 1624, Barbados, Montserrat, and Antigua in 1627, and Nevis in 1628,” Lambert has written.
community needs us.
“A low point was when [Prince] Harry was asked by a family member how dark Archie’s skin might be,” Markle told Oprah Winfrey in a 2021 interview. Archie is Markle and Harry’s son. Markle revealed that she began having suicidal thoughts while pregnant with Archie in early 2019. “I just didn’t want to be alive anymore,” Markle told Winfrey. “And that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought.”
“And I guess one of the most telling parts and the saddest parts, I guess, was over 70 female members of Parliament, both Conservative and Labor, came out and called out the colonial undertones of articles and head lines written about Meghan. Yet no one from my family ever said anything. That hurts.”
also grew palpable. “I think most Antiguans would want to replace the Queen now,” histo rian Ivor Ford told BBC News during the celebration.
How were they chosen?
People can better serve you when they know exactly what you are going through—this is what I mean by serv ing through Black lenses. But know that we are unapologetic about being Black and who we’ve been since 1966.
TheWeber.MSR reached out to several Newark-area social justice organiza tions to learn about their experience with O’Hara but have not heard back by press time.
Police mistrust over racial profil ing carried over to Brackney’s ten ure. According to C-ville Weekly, in December 2020, Brackney called on a local church and advocacy groups to apologize to the department for wrongfully accusing it of racism, which stemmed from an incident involv
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SR: We just started our communi ty-needs assessment. We will have 35 stakeholders come in and tell us what they would like to see this com munity look like. From that, our board will retreat and develop questions and surveys that will be shared with the community for feedback.
“He held us to high standards to be professional, [the] best we could be, and that’s what the civilians deserved. But then on top of that, we witnessed him amongst commu nity leaders, religious leaders, coun cil people, business, he really wore many hats. And he did it really well,” said
Black Storytelling Alliance continues cherished tradition
neteenth, Kwanzaa, Women’s History Month, and other cel ebrations. Then of course, in February there is Black History Month, or what Vusi adeptly re fers to as “Black Artist Full Em ployment Month.”
For more information about the 32nd Annual Black Master Storytellers Festival, including a complete schedule of events, sto ryteller bios, and other details, visit BSA at classesannual-master-storytellers-festiblackstorytellers.com/31st-val-daily-line-up.AmericanSignLanguage(ASL)serviceswillbeprovidedduringalldailyactivitiesbyJamillahHollmanandRosalindaEstrada-Alvarez.FormoreinformationonandalltheprogramsofferedbytheBSA,sendanemailtoinfo@blackstorytellers.comorvisitblackstorytellers.com.TonyKienewelcomesreaderresponsestotkiene@spokesman-recorder.com.
way), or as Nothando prefers to call it—to the objection of Vusi— the “Tall Tales Contest.”
(aka Gran’Daddy June Bug), the Liars (Tall Tales) Contest will be judged and trophies will be pre sented to the top three finishers in each age group.
Today, the BSA is one of 15 national affiliates of the NABS, and, as the Zulu’s readily affirm, they take the art of Black story telling anywhere that they are asked. “We’ve visited just about every type of venue you could think of,” observed Vusi. From schools to senior centers, cor porations to community organi zations, churches to prisons, as well as libraries, weddings, fam ily reunions and even more, the BSA accepts all invitations.
Finally, in keeping with the BSA’s commitment to educa tion, the festival will host free mini-concerts for local school children on Friday morning at two locations: Macalester Col lege and the University of Min nesota’s Robert Jones Urban Research and Outreach Center (UROC).Advance registration is re quired, and space is limited. Teachers interested in signing their class up for one of these storytelling concerts, can do so by visiting blackstorytell ers.com/school-mini-concertrestration, sending an email to info@blackstorytellers.com, or calling BSA at 612- 529-5864.
When coupled with the BSA’s year-long events, these classes help to fashion a philosophy that the Zulus call “edutainment.”
That year, the festival also
Inspired by the extraordinary experience, Vusi and Nothando knew exactly what they needed to do. So, not long after they returned to the Twin Cities, the Black Theatre Alliance was re born as the Black Storytellers Alliance (BSA).
The ensemble originally in cluded the likes of Lou Bellamy, Horace Bond, Jerri Alexander, Jerry Blue, and many others who, across the decades, have graced the Twin Cities (and beyond) with their immense talents, art istry, and devotion to the craft.
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The 32nd Annual Black Mas ter Storytellers Festival will take place each night, from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm, at three dif ferent locations. All events are free and family-friendly. Like wise, all nightly events will be held in-person, but can also be streamed online at no cost.
“This work is so important,” added Vusi. “We are sharing with the world who we are, our history, our contributions, our legacy. These traditions have to be protected and passed on.”
The festival will kick off Thursday night at the Perpich Center for the Arts (6125 Olson Memorial Highway) with the
year’s fest is entitled “Signifyin’ and Testifyin’: Strength of Our Youth…Wisdom of Our Elders Reimagined.”“I’mfrom the country and I come out of the church,” said Nothando, “whereas Vusi comes from the city and is of the streets. That is how the tes tifyin’ and signifyin’ dichotomy is drawn here.”
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In 1990, Nothando and her husband Vusumuzi (Vusi) Zulu, made the journey to South Car olina to attend the festival of the National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS). Founded by Mother Mary Carter Smith and Linda Goss, the NABS was created to provide more oppor tunities for Black storytellers to be seen and heard while also ensuring that the “rich heritage of the African Oral Tradition be shared and preserved.”
opening ceremony storytelling concert. The grand finale story telling concert closes the festi val Saturday night at Studio 900 (900 Hennepin Avenue). Both nights will feature storytellers from the BookendedBSA. by these story telling concerts is Friday night’s “Liars Contest” at the historic Ca pri Theater (2027 West Broad
featured legends such as “The Story Lady” Jackie Torrence.
In addition to visiting all these locations, the BSA is also dedicated to training Black sto rytellers, including those from the younger generations. The BSA’s 12-week class, which generally convenes twice a year, is known as “The Art of Oral Sto rytelling from an African/African American Perspective.”
“We need other people to as sume this mantle,” Vusi said. “As we’ve said time and time again, the art of storytelling must be nurtured, preserved, and al lowed to flourish.”
“When I was growing up, liar was a bad word,” Nothando said laughing.
The Zulu’s note how a lot of requests come in around the time of Dr. King’s birthday, Ju
Photos courtesy of BSA
32nd annual festival coming up Sept. 22-24
From the very beginning, No thando explained, the idea of the Black Theatre Alliance was to “take theater into the com munity” without the use of “a stage” or props. Over the years, the alliance naturally morphed into more of a storytelling col lective than a theater troupe.
Anyone in attendance, as long as they keep it familyfriendly, can participate and has five minutes to tell their best lie. Emceed by the legendary master storyteller, poet, author, and recording artist Mitch Capel
The 32nd Annual Black Master Storytellers Festival Next weekend, September 22 -24, the BSA will host one of its very own time-tested tra ditions, its annual festival. This
In 1976, on the campus of the University of Minnesota, a group of students established what they initially called the Black Theatre Alliance. “We were more of an ensemble back then,” recalled Nothando Zulu. “Our numbers were strong, and we were represented by mem bers of the African American community along with some from the diaspora.”
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running for office, and educat ing. My organization, People For the American Way, houses an African American Religious Affairs network that has reaf firmed for more than a decade that “every election matters and every vote counts”—and that includes primaries.
The Obamas’ White House portraits unveiled
The American Experiment’s staff advances policies by drafting legislation, testifying before legislative committees, and placing op-eds in newspa pers and magazines across the state of Minnesota. They boast that they have been an impact ful and effective public policy organization in Minnesota.
She said: “A girl like me, she was never supposed to be up there next to Jacqueline Ken nedy and Dolley Madison. She was never supposed to live in this house, and she definitely wasn’t supposed to serve as First Lady. But I’ve always wondered: Where does that ‘supposed to’ come from? Who determines it?
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Equity 2030 plan
Further, schools play a principal role in perpetuating ideological racism through a social studies curriculum that is designed to promote White supremacy by distort ing American history in such a way that it portrays Whites as agents of progress and build ers of civilizations and Blacks as insignificant objects or de ficient characters.
Telling that fuller story has always been necessary to make the American dream real for everyone. The Obamas re main a beautiful, transforma tive example of what Ameri
The city stands to lose Black representation in Con gress and have less represen tation in the state legislature. Knowing what the impact could be, voters have spoken out forcefully against the new redistricting maps from pul pits to street corners to the state capitol and even before the state courts.
The racism that inheres in the U.S. public school system can only be fully dealt with through a vigorous, sustained political struggle by the pro gressive people of all races to radically transform and de mocratize American society.
Center of the American Experiment attacks Minnesota Racial Equity Plan
In essence, there is a ra cial and class tracking system in public education that re produces the race and class structure of society and per petuates the racial academic gaps. Powerful political and economic forces determine these tracks, based on race as well as socioeconomic class.
By Marian Wright Edelman
We must be aware of the political forces that are con stantly strategizing to sabo tage our efforts to advance
Dr. Luke Tripp is a professor at St. Cloud State University.
All children deserve that mo ment of seeing themselves in books, art, and in the halls of power and knowing they are part of a community and coun try where everyone is represent ed, everyone belongs, and any future is possible for every child.
Redistricting is robbing Black candidates and voters of years of hard-fought opportu nities. In Detroit, new districts merged Black areas of the city with White neighborhoods across 8 Mile Road.
human rights and justice.
“And too often in this coun try, people feel like they have to look a certain way or act a certain way to fit in, that they have to make a lot of money or come from a certain group or class or faith in order to mat ter. But what we’re looking at today—a portrait of a biracial kid with an unusual name and the daughter of a water pump operator and a stay-at-home mom—what we are seeing is a reminder that there’s a place for everyone in this country.”
Katherine Kersten, a found er of the Center of the Ameri can Experiment and former columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, wrote an antiBlack opinion piece that ap peared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on August 28, 2022.
“This country is not about blood or pedigree or wealth. It’s a place where everyone should have a fair shot.”
Kersten’s fierce opposition to the Equity 2030 plan is based on her biased observations and beliefs about what is happening in the Minnesota public K-12 system. She asserts that Min neapolis public high schools, in their quest for equity, have lowered or eliminated academic standards so that grades are not based on the quality of a stu dent’s performance.
The current reality dictates that we do not sit out any election. We need to resolute ly register, educate, motivate and turn out voters. In every election. Every time.
colorblind standards rather than race in their grading will risk being labeled racist and may incur daunting job conse quences by those whom Ker sten calls the state’s “equity and inclusion czars.”
The goal of the state of Minnesota is to train a more educated and competent workforce. A measure of the goal is that 70% of workers (all races and ethnicities) be tween the ages of 25-44 have a postsecondary degree by 2025. The basic goal of the Equity 2030 plan is to raise the skill sets of all students to build a more competent work force in Minnesota.
The public school system is structured along racial and class lines. In this stratified structure, the highest quality schools are in upscale White residential areas, and those of lowest quality are found in im poverished Black areas.
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neapolis Star Tribune shows how influential the Center of the American Experiment is in shaping public opinion.
“That’s why, for me, this day isn’t about me or Barack. It’s not even about these beauti ful paintings. It’s about telling that fuller story—a story that includes every single American in every single corner of this country so that our kids and grandkids can see something more for themselves.”
When Charles Diggs, Jr. won the election to Congress in Michigan’s 13th District in 1954, he launched nearly seven decades in which the city of Detroit had at least one Black member of Congress.
We must also keep voting,
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Kersten’s racist demeaning
The Center of the American Experiment researches and produces papers on Minne sota’s economy and education. It proposes policies that em phasize limited government, personal responsibility, and capitalism.
For Black ministers in our network, voting and civic par ticipation are acts of faith and so much more. As Reverend Dr. Steve Bland, Jr., pastor of Liberty Temple Baptist Church in Detroit, said, “It’s not about left or right. Splitting Detroit into two districts was an insult. But we have faith and must “deal with our self-interest by voting in every election!”
In it, she attacked the Equity 2030 plan of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system and stigmatized Black, American Indian, and Latinx students and their families.
It’s part of a long-term effort to sabotage advancements in human rights and justice
For example, she cites statistics for Roosevelt High School in 2020: “Black stu dents’ graduation rate was 77%, but in 2019 only 23% of the school’s Black students who took state tests were proficient in reading and 10% in math.” She contends that “Equity-equal outcomes- has been achieved on paper, but at a devastating cost: A high school diploma has become essentially meaningless.”
Redistricting is voter suppression too
Mrs. Obama added: “That is what this country is about. It’s not about blood or pedigree or wealth. It’s a place where ev eryone should have a fair shot, whether you’re a kid taking two buses and a train just to get to school; or a single moth er who is working two jobs to put some food on the table; or an immigrant just arriving, get ting your first apartment, forg ing a future for yourself in a place you dreamed of.
But we don’t hear enough about redistricting as another weapon being used to intimi date voters and keep us from exercising our constitutional rights. It is erasing us from Congress and state legislatures. We need to call it out and chal lenge it where we see it.
That’s likely to change this year because of redistricting. Detroit no longer has major ity-Black congressional dis tricts. And in the first primary election with newly drawn district lines, a Black candi date did not win the Demo cratic contest in the heavily Democratic 13th. That means the city is likely to lack Black representation in Congress for the first time in decades.
Kersten is a right-wing pro pagandist who is a leader of an organization with a history of strategically opposing progres sive policies and programs. Her published piece in the Min
Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president emerita of the Children’s Defense Fund.
The current real ity dictates that we do not sit out any election.
Republican legislators illegally drew those states’ congressio nal maps along racial or par tisan lines, or that a trial very likely would conclude that they did.” But elections are moving forward anyway.
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can leadership and American leaders can look like. Now these new portraits will serve as a reminder to generations of visitors to the White House, our Presidency’s seat of power, that we are a nation with a place for everyone.
She argues that achieve ment and performance mea sures will be based on race rather than academic perfor mance. More ominous, she thinks that faculty who use
The major goal of the Equity 2030 plan, which is a product of analyses and discussions by university trustees, adminis trators, faculty members, stu dent groups, and government officials, is to raise the per formance of all students and reduce the academic achieve ment gaps among students based on family income, eth nicity and race.
The traditional portrait in stallation ceremony was ig nored and delayed during the last administration, but this week, with President Biden, First Lady Biden, Vice President Harris, and Second Gentleman Emhoff all in attendance, once again the Obamas made spec tacular and moving history.
“As Barack said, if the two of us can end up on the walls of the most famous address in the world, then, again, it is so important for every young kid who is doubting themselves to believe that they can, too,” said former First Lady Michelle Obama last week.
Both President Obama and First Lady Obama acknowledged the meaning of the moment as they spoke, and Mrs. Obama expressed the special hope that these portraits will help set a new standard of representation for our nation’s children.
Finally, she blames Black, American Indian, and Latinx students and their fami lies and the social promo tion practices of the public schools. In her view, the low academic performance of Black students is caused by their lack of a hard work ethic and self-discipline.
Impacts of race and class
For many people, Mrs. Obama’s remarks about their White House portraits brought to mind the similar impact of the Obamas’ earlier portraits for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery collection, es pecially the much-publicized photograph of two-year-old Parker Curry, a beautiful Black girl, craning her neck and star ing at Amy Sherald’s life-size portrait of Mrs. Obama in awe. Parker and her mother Jessica have since written a series of children’s books, including the New York Times bestsell ing picture book that recreates that day at the museum: Park er Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment. The book captures the moment when Parker whispered that she could see a queen— “unable to look away, to move, to breathe.”
It also noted the queen in the painting had “rich brown skin, just like Parker, and kind, familiar eyes that reminded Parker of…her mother, her grandmother, her sister, and yes—even of herself.”
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Sadly, Michigan is not alone. The New York Times reported in August that this year, “judg es in Alabama, Georgia, Louisi ana and Ohio have found that
We’ve all heard about the restrictive voter suppression laws that far-right state leg islatures are passing. We’ve heard about the crackdowns on voting hours and mail-in voting, and even on giving food and water to voters in long lines.
Calling out and challeng ing means organizing, litigat ing and legislating. It means supporting national and local organizations that unite com munities against racist ger rymandering and seek justice in the courts. They might not win every case, but advocacy and activism are essential to righting this wrong.
Ben Jealous serves as presi dent of People for the American Way and professor of practice in the Africana Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches leadership.
On September 7, former President Barack Obama and First Lady Obama visited the White House for the unveiling of their official White House portraits. The two extraordi nary paintings, by Robert Mc Curdy and Sharon Sprung, have now taken their place in the historic gallery of former presi dents and first ladies displayed on the White House walls.
Finally, she maintains that under the plan, Equity 2030 means not fairness, but the opposite: the proportional distribution of desirable out comes by skin color, not by academic excellence and en hanced learning.
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Kersten claims that the Eq uity 2030 plan is a threat to academic merit. She believes that underperforming stu dents who do not meet high academic standards will be given unearned credentials to just make it appear that racial equity goals are met.
I know that a lot of media coverage of this summer’s primaries has focused on one big question: Will Trump-style, MAGA candidates win or lose? But there’s another question that needs to be asked: How harmful are the impacts of redistricting on our communi ties in this year’s elections and those to come?
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“You’re a counselor,” said Crump of his work. “You’re just trying to make America live up to the Declaration of Independence.” He applied what he learned from Marshall—“You gotta be
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Hallgren and Crump both spoke to the crowded room after the film’s screening. The attorney stated that the stories of Black killings by police wouldn’t be fully exposed and cov ered if it wasn’t for Black journalists. “Whether we get justice or not is gonna be on us,” he ex plained. “We’re going to get justice.”
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We also learn how much he is a devoted family man as a married father of a young daughter. It is also revealed that his hero was Thurgood Marshall, the nation’s first Black Su preme Court justice.
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The legal work of famed civil rights lawyer Ben Crump is chronicled in “Civil,” a nearly two-hour documentary that premiered this summer on Netflix. The documentary presents a behind-the-scenes look at how Crump works with his clients as they seek justice in the form of civil liability suits filed against the particular city and its police department.
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Viewers of “Civil” will learn that Crump has since law school been dedicated to Black life, and this was the main reason why he and his law practice partner chose civil law rather than criminal law.
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focused on the mission. You got to be focused on the mis sion. Because if you lose your focus, then more injustice is happening.’Crumpagreed to be filmed when Kenya Barris (“black-ish”) approached him with the project. Hallgren agreed to do it shortly after her last project, “Becoming” (2020), on former First Lady Mi chelle Obama, debuted on Net flix. “My background is as a cin ematographer,” she noted. Her previous work includes “Black and Missing” (2021) and “She’s the Ticket” (2017).
Both Crump and Hallgren said they are proud of “Civil.”
sure than their White peers. Ul timately, disproportionate rates of hypertension have major implications for mortality in the BlackBrewercommunity.believes the results of the new study could better equip clinicians to address ra
Added Crump, “It was a hard decision. I’ve made a choice, but I knew in this
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ultimately encourage people to increase practices such as exer cising regularly or maintaining a healthy diet,” Brewer said.
“One of the most power ful moments for me was when Ben walked into the living room of these fami lies, and just the way that he managed a situation
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To improve heart health, the American Heart Associa tion recommends people fol low Life’s Simple 7. The steps include eating a healthy diet, getting physical activity, losing excess weight, managing blood pressure, controlling cholester ol, lowering blood sugar, and refraining from smoking.
Black Americans are 30% more likely to die of cardio vascular disease than the gen eral population in the United States. Heart disease impacts about half of all Black adults during their Accordinglifetimes.toa2017 state ment published in the Journal of the American Heart As sociation, hypertension—or blood pressure above 130/80 mmHg—is likely the greatest risk factor for cardiovascular disease among Black Ameri cans, as well as the most easily targeted area for disease pre vention through treatment and management of the condition.
Some individuals may be more likely to practice healthy behaviors, such as refraining from alcohol or tobacco use, due to their religious beliefs.
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where you have a grieving family,” Hallgren said.
Rates of undiagnosed hypertension among Black men and women in the U.S. are among the highest in the world. The disparity begins in youth.Blackboys and girls are more likely to have high blood pres
“Providers should consider religiosity and spirituality as an important sociocultural influence on cardiovascular health in this particular popu lation,” she said. “Health dis
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parities researchers may also apply this data as they devel op culturally relevant lifestyle interventions.”Churches,already viewed as cornerstones of many Black communities, should be further empowered in their ability to promote healthier habits among members. “Af rican American churches can use this information as well to develop health and well ness programs and encourage healthy lifestyle practices in their ministries,” Brewer said.
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based study examining the risk of cardiovascular disease in Black adults in Jackson, Mississippi. The study, which began in the late 1990s, in volves 5,300 men and women and aims to investigate the environmental and genetic factors surrounding Black Americans’ disproportionate rates of heart disease.
Hallgren said she at all times stayed true to Crump’s expectation, but she also wanted to give viewers a real glimpse of what Crump does away from the cameras. “We don’t hear a lot of those sto ries, but it could be [only] a news headline for a day and then people forget about it.[Crump] just wanted to make sure we went deeper.
“We had the film down to 11 hours” of footage, recalled the filmmaker. “As we had enough footage to start editing, we just started “Hopefullyediting.”itencourages oth er Black filmmakers to go out and tell stories,” Crump said.
Hallgren told the MSR, “I just really hope people can watch it and share it, share it with others. I think it’s an im portant piece of history.”
Brewer and other re searchers analyzed data from participants in the Jackson Heart Study, a community-
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She got to meet pro golfer Michelle Wie West, “and I actu ally got to have a conversation with her. Super cool,” reaffirmed Rhodes. The junior business administration major is anxious to start her college season after the pandemic delayed her col lege playing for a year.
A super cool experience
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Also a four-time Big Ten se lection, Gentil helped her team to two Final Four berths and was named to the 2004 NCAA Final Four All-Tournament team. Volleyball Magazine also named her their National De fensive Player of the Year.
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year graduate assistant coach at her alma mater so she could stay in the game. She also worked at Tennessee State, Pitt and Auburn, where she spent nine seasons before Flor ida hired her in 2021. “If I couldn’t play, then coach ing was the next best thing,” said Ambler.
Former Mississippi State coach Sylvester Croom, the school’s first Black head coach when he was hired in 2003, told ESPN recent ly that the poor diversity numbers can be attributed to the person or persons who are doing the hiring— university presidents, ath letic directors, and even prominent boosters who are largely White.
“I’m ready for competition,” said Rhodes.
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Spring“There’sInvite.so much that has happened with me,” said Rhodes, including coaching youngsters at the Solomon Hughes St. Golf Academy. “I was a coach for their fellow ship team. I love it. It was really exciting…to see the kids im prove and grow in confidence. It was super cool.”
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Hebert. She still is one of the best to compete with the Gophers. The three-time Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year was also the school’s first-ever three-time All-
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Gentil finished her career as the NCAA record holder in digs with 2,971, and she still holds the school record in digs by nearly 800.
The coach also added that the American Vol leyball Coaching Asso ciation (AVCA) has been involved in pushing for more Black coaches to be hired. “I think they’re do ing a good job with Black coaches, getting more Black coaches into it,” said Ambler.
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a college student a couple of years ago. The Eastview High School grad and threetime state tournament par ticipant spoke to us prior to her fall
The 2022 M Club HOF class will be recognized at various events throughout this weekend, including Sat urday’s Gophers-Colorado football game.
Obstacles to change Black head college foot ball coaches in the Power Five conferences this sea son remain stagnant: Big Ten and Pac-12 each have three Black HCs. The ACC has two and zero HCs in both the SEC and the Big 12.
The MSR has been follow ing St. Catherine golfer Jay cee Rhodes, now in her ju nior year, since she became
American in U of M’s history.
Also, last winter, a minor league hockey player was in definitely suspended after he allegedly hurled racist taunts at a Black player. Another hockey player was suspended for 30 games for a racist ges ture directed toward a Black player by imitating a monkey’s movements.
1993: Sam Willis, Robert Mestas, John Thomas, and Demetrius “Bebop” Walker led Minneapolis Roosevelt, coached by Frank Hent ges, over No.1-ranked Cretin Derham Hall coached by Len Horyza and led by players Arvest Kelly Jr., Myron Taylor, Jeff Ellens and Jerry Kline
“Racism still is a thing,” con cluded Ambler. “Unfortunate ly, the BYU game brought it to the light again. It’s never gonna go away.”
1995: Khalid El-Amin Jab bar Washington and Kavon Westberry led Minneapolis North, coached by Robin In gram, to the Class AA state boys basketball championship by defeating Staples-Motley.
Recent BYU incident highlights a longstanding problem
ESPN.com’s MV Voepel wrote in a 2020 article, “Black women have long excelled [in volleyball] but often haven’t been repre sented or felt embraced… Many black women have felt marginalized or overlooked in the sport.”
Clyde Turner (basketball, 1971-73) was an integral part of the 1972 Big Ten Champi onship team and was named a first team All-Big Ten that season. Turner was a part of Minnesota’s first conference title since 1937, and the first outright title since 1919.
The Gators were in action the same weekend as the Duke team in Utah. Ambler said she and the coaches and the Florida team, which has four Black players, discussed the Richardson incident. “We talked about what we would do,” continued Ambler.
This season all but one Big Ten school (Indiana) has at least one Black player. Penn State, Northwestern, Wis consin and Maryland lead with four each; Minnesota has three Blacks on this sea son’s roster. But there are zero Black head coaches in the conference.“WhenIplayed, I was the only Black player on my team, sometimes the only Black player in the gym,”
Editor’s Note: “Prep Flash backs” is the first of a series of seven columns highlighting the boys’ teams and players that Dr. Mitchell Palmer McDonald has covered as a prep photojournal ist since 1987. The column will run once a month.
consistent argument that still exists is that there aren’t more Black females in volleyball because the sport is too expensive or too technical. The former is valid, because traveling or elite volleyball can be costly, and the latter is valid because you can’t play volleyball alone like you can dribbling or shooting a bas ketball or training for track.
Ambler admitted that she got into coaching as a two■ See Volleyball on page 10
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Later, Richardson said on Twitter that “No athlete, re gardless of their race, should ever be subject to such hos tile conditions.” The fan was later banned from future BYU games, and some believe that more punitive action should have been taken much sooner, perhaps expelling the source of racist comments as soon as they were heard. School officials apologized, but such apologies have been offered for similar past incidents when no further action was taken.
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After Minnesota, Turner was a fourth-round draft pick of the Milwaukee Bucks in 1973, and later played profes sionally in Europe for two sea sons. He earned two degrees from the U of M and became a community staple as a youth advocate for over four de cades.
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troduced “behavioral guide lines” for member schools and reaffirmed its own Bylaw 209, which prohibits racial, sexual or religious harassment at all school-related activities, in cluding sports.
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he U of M’s M Club will on Sept. 16 induct 13 new Hall of Fame mem bers at a Friday evening in-per son ceremony on the Williams Arena court. Three persons of color are in the 2022 class: Clyde Turner (posthumously), Ron Johnson and Paula Gentil.
into the incident, which includ ed reviews of audio and visual recordings and interviews with numerous fans, found no sup port for the allegation. “From our extensive review,” BYU said in a statement last Fri day, “we have not found any evidence to corroborate the allegation that fans engaged in racial heckling or uttered racial slurs at the Whateverevent.”the outcome in this case, it has revived discussion of the reality of racial heckling, which has been clearly documented at
would my team react? I don’t know. I think they would have my“Thisback.”is not the first time this has happened in college athletics, and sadly it likely will not be the last time,” said Richardson. “However, each time it happens we as student athletes, coaches, fans and administrators have a chance to educate those who act in hatefulUnfortunatelyways.” there isn’t a simple and lasting solution to handle and prevent racist, ig norant and asinine behaviors from fans occurring at games. Banning them after the fact is only a temporary fix, not a permanent deterrence.
During the opening week end of the 2022 college vol leyball season last month, a BYU fan allegedly shouted racist slurs at a Black Duke player during a match. Starter Rachel Richardson and her fellow Black teammates “were targeted and racially heckled throughout the entirety of the match,” said Richardson in a post-match statement.
play of Jason Daisy, Patrick Williams, Brent Miller, Jamil Graves, and Tyrone Sims
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1994: St. Agnes, with Marlon McCoy, Lester Jack son, Jahmai “Pancho” Phipps, Craig Vaughn, Juan Taylor, Char Davis, and Head Coach Dick Ghizoni, won the Class A state boys basketball tourna ment with a victory over Mor ris Area. Minneapolis Wash burn, coached by Louis Boone and led by players Eric Minea, Byron Suttle, Akeem Carpen
1992: In his first season as head coach at Minneapo lis South, Craig LeSuer led the boys basketball team to the Class AA state tourna ment behind the outstanding
This time the apology has been extended to the banned fan after BYU’s investigation
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coaches’ state tournament, an upset in a Twin Cities champi onship victory, two state tour nament championship teams in one season, a first state championship for a coach and special player, and a buzzer beater in the state tourna ment that led to a second championship.
1992 - 1996
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said Florida Assistant Coach Eysha Ambler. She was a three-sport letterwinner at Jacksonville State in the mid1980s. She finished as JSU’s all-time single season leader in blocks per game.
Paula Gentil (volleyball, 2005-08) was Minnesota’s first-ever designated libero under the late coach Mike
ter, Aaron Boone, Adrian Pat terson and Jason Collins, de feated Hopkins for the Class AA state title.
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“No athlete, regardless of their race, should ever be subject to such hostile conditions.”
Ambler stated that despite the slight recent decline, she sees a possible reason for the overall increase in Blacks play ing Division I volleyball in re cent years, specifically Florida having four Blacks on their squad: “Now you see more because I think a lot more ath letes are going from basket ball to Whatvolleyball.”aboutBlack volleyball coaches like herself? The NCAA database indicates virtually no change in Black HCs in the last two years—from 19 males and 51 females in 2019 to 15 males and 59 females in 2021. Black assistants also show little change—20 males and 91 fe males in 2019, and 17 males and 97 females in 2021.
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Last winter, racist taunts at New Prague sporting events directed toward visiting ath letes of color from Robbins dale Cooper and St. Louis Park High Schools forced the latter two schools to cancel future scheduled games with New Prague. The Minnesota State High School League later in
He played in a total of 51 games and led the Gophers in scoring both seasons, where he averaged over 18 points a game. He also made second team all-conference in 1973 and now ranks eighth all-time in career scoring average per game (18.4 ppg). Turner passed away on August 9, 2022.
Johnson recorded eight 100yard receiving games and led Minnesota in receptions and receiving yards for three seasons. He also set a school record with seven straight games with a receiving touch down.Johnson was drafted by Baltimore in 2002 in the fourth round and played there 2002-04. Overall, he played professionally 2002-08.
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all levels of sport. I’ve seen and heard hateful things said at games over the years as a reporter. I also experienced racial taunts as a high school player for an all-Black school playing in an all-White athletic conference.“Iwasthe only Black player on my team,” recalled Florida Assistant Volleyball Coach Eysha Ambler on her days as a college athlete. “I remember going to games and counting how many Black people were in there. No one ever said any thing [racial]. Thank God.”
fter graduating from Central State Universi ty in 1987, I began my career as a prep sports colum nist at Insight News. In 1996, I moved on to the Spokesman-Recorder.MinnesotaThisweek’scolumnfeaturesoneeventoraccomplishmentfrom1992-1996.Highlightsincludeafirst-year
Gopher years,
1996: El-Amin’s buzzer beater over St. Thomas Acad emy, coached by Mike Man ning, in the quarterfinals of the Class AA state tourna ment kept Minneapolis North and Coach Ingram on pace to collect their second state tournament championship trophy.
“I think a lot more athletes are going basketballfromtovolleyball.”
Clyde Turner Photos courtesy U of M
The NCAA Demographics Database says the number of Black female college volleyball players has dropped slightly from 1,921 (2019) to 1,894 (2021). It remains that most Black volleyball players can be found at HBCUs.
“So, I put myself in Rachel’s position. How would I have felt if something [like that] would have happened? How
Ron Johnson (football, 1998-2001) was a staple on the Minnesota football team. He set school records in re ceiving yards (2,989), recep tions (198), and receiving touchdowns (31). A 2000 AllBig Ten first-teamer, Johnson tied an NCAA record with a reception in 46 straight games. That same season she set school records for receiv ing TDs (11) and receiving yardsDuring(1,125).his
No one, no matter the cost of attending a sporting event, has the right to racially taunt anyone. However, such ac tions have been around prob ably since the Christians were targets of lions at ancient Ro manNogames.matter the level, from youth sports to pros, it’s been a longstanding problem.
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Sports Weekly Mag. com re cently called racial and hate ful taunting “an unaddressed plague across high school sports…against visiting teams from diverse communities [that] inspire fans to express their bigotry.”
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