The Ron & Don Show On #BTR

27/05/2023

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Tune in this morning at 9:30 a.m. for a mind bending perspective on dealing with Twin Cities youth crime. I don’t care how many Black men you have at your meetings so you can get famous and funded, the work is not being done for one simple reason: You don’t know how.

Join Anthony Scott and Don Allen for a mind bending discussion about the new pandemic of youth gun crimes in the Twin Cities.

16/01/2023

What a waste.

It’s a great day to celebrate the Minnesota Vikings. Happy SKOL Chant Day, Minnesota!

13/01/2023

Tune into Our Black News Saturday morning at 9:30 AM CST.

09/06/2022

May running for Congress in St. Paul (CD4). This is not an endorsement.

May Lor Xiong (www.may4mn.com) is one of the many political candidates we have interviewed on Our Black News. We appreciate the time the candidates spend with us, and while OBN doesn’t endorse candidates - we encourage people to make sure they speak with each candidate running for office in our neighborhoods. There is a silo that filters out common sense solutions and avoids the hard questions. Neither the local Left or Right have addressed any of the simplest needs that tend to grow into serious livability challenges. Celebrities are great at the utility of entertainment, and if all you need from your representation is a photo op or Facebook LIVE stream, then I feel we’ve lost you. If many of our elected officials are too busy hosting parties and living in Washington, D.C. -they are intentionally ignoring the fact more than 1000 families in the Twin Cities with school-aged children are without the basics of human needs like shelter; you have become a repellant of economic change and have no business in your role. I’m just saying, “Vote 4 U in 2022!” This has been a Public Service Announcement from Our Black News (2022).

03/08/2021

From the New Yorker (2021)

In “the absence of cloud-parting, trumpet-blaring clarity,” these poems ask what meaning can be found—or made—through partial revelation, in a world so often defined by misunderstandings: with others, with God, with ourselves. Sometimes the lack of clarity is literal. Flip through this book and you’ll notice formal and stylistic strategies that play at the edges of decipherability. One poem is printed backward, forcing us to either hold it up to a mirror or patiently decode it letter by letter. (Farsi is read right to left, a reminder that our notion of backwardness is always arbitrary.) The six enigmatic poems that share the book’s title are studded with periods that keep interrupting the speaker midsentence, as though his hurtling train of thought required speed bumps.

In “Pilgrim Bell,” the poet turns illegibility into a site of creativity, taking apart familiar language and reassembling unexpected truths.

01/07/2021

https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-council-members-agree-to-withdraw-proposal-to-replace-police-department-as-local-activis/600073631/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=evening_update&fbclid=IwAR16g94qk9VarvN1NfBsNRBErPrbcTZwE-G0xGMbuzH-7Xl8Xaz-6fO9Dsk

Council members to drop second proposal to avoid confusion on the ballot.

02/03/2021

https://youtu.be/Mzsu7ThSkB8

Tuesday, March 2nd, is Read Across America, and this year, the National Education Association is encouraging schools and families to seek out stories that pr...