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10 Self-Care Tips To Add To Your Everyday Life

May showers bring flowers in the form of Mental Health Awareness Month, founded to shift our mental health culture from awareness to action. The movement is powered by a growing coalition of over 1700 nonprofits, brands and agencies in over 30 countries. Read 10 self-care tips to stay sane through the madness inside.

Mental Health and action look different for everyone.

Mental Health Action Day encourages and empowers everyone to take action for themselves, their loved ones, or their community based on what works best for them.… Read more

New program helps BIPOC families buy Northside homes

This story has been shared with the permission of Sahan Journal 

Northside News

By Katelyn Vue, Sahan Journal 

As a renter for over the past decade, Sean Tanna grew familiar with the stores and restaurants in north Minneapolis— which is why he decided to plant his family’s roots there, he said. Last December, his family officially closed on a three-bedroom house. 

Tanna is one of the first recipients of a $20,000 grant from the Homeownership Access Fund, a program led by the North Minneapolis-based housing nonprofit Urban Homeworks.… Read more

Sign up for Summer Scholars by May 1 to secure transportation!

Summer Scholars is an innovative, immersive summer experience that challenges your student to explore a world of possibilities both in and out of the classroom

With five unique, engaging Summer Scholars academies, there’s a place for everyone to experience more while growing their learning. Summer Scholars is free and open to public school students in incoming grades 1-8. Incoming kindergartners may also attend when certain eligibility requirements are met. The first sessions start June 24 and classes end Aug.… Read more

Silence Is Not Consent: Resistance Is Required Today, Tomorrow And Forever

Across the country, we are seeing protests on college campuses around the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza. Young people are voicing dissent around the more than 34,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces over a war they didn’t start. The young demonstrators are being arrested, demonized, and harassed for exercising their constitutional right to question what they see as injustice. While a cursory take is that the protests are about Gaza alone; they’re about democracy – a true democracy without colonization by the American empire abroad and at home.… Read more

TRUMP WANTS TO HOST EVENT AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN WITH RAPPERS AND ATHLETES TO LURE BLACK VOTERS

 SHAWN GRANT

 APRIL 30, 2024

Donald Trump is looking for your favorite rappers and ball players to support his presidential bid. According to The Boston Herald, Trump is looking to bring big stars in the Hip-Hop community to Madison Square Garden for a campaign rally.

Trump is also looking to appear in Chicago, Detroit, and Atlanta. There currently isn’t a firm plan to engage the Black community, which is alarming for Trump’s campaign with just five months left until election day.… Read more

KMOJ’s heart and soul enshrined in Broadcast Hall of Fame

By Azhae’la Hanson, Reporter 

North News

Walter “Q Bear” Banks has worked in almost every position for over 40 years at KMOJ-89.9 FM. He started at the mic at 16, making public service announcements on the intercom as a student at North High School. 

He hosted several of the station’s Jazz, Blues, and Hip-Hop shows and was the community engagement coordinator. His sifting through records and “Queueing” up songs to play inspired the Q Bear name. … Read more

The ‘Rodney King Riots’ In Los Angeles Began On This Day In 1992

Uprisings among disenfranchised people reacting to oppressive law enforcement tactics have seemingly been a constant since the 1960s, in particular. As the saying goes, history is cyclical, and the world found itself witnessing one of the most noteworthy such rebellions following a jury finding California officers not guilty despite the video evidence of them brutalizing an unarmed Black man.

Sound familiar?

It is decidedly in that context that it should never be forgotten that the so-called “Rodney King Riots,” also known as the “Los Angeles Riots,” began this day in 1992 after four Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers were acquitted of charges in the savage beating of Rodney King.… Read more

Diddy Files Motion To Dismiss Parts of Sexual Assault Lawsuit

Lawyers for Diddy rebuked a womans lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault and filed a motion to dismiss elements of it.

Last Friday (April 26), the legal team for Diddy filed a motion in a New York court to dismiss parts of a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him, stating that  the allegations “were brought under statutes that did not exist at the time the alleged misconduct occurred.” The legal documents explicitly point to the charges of revenge porn and human trafficking that should be dismissed outright by the court as they were not in existence at the time of the allegation.… Read more

Will TikTok Be Banned? Here’s What We Know So Far

This looming U.S. TikTok ban has been clouding the minds of the popular social media platform’s users for months now. Although President Joe Biden makes his latest move to make things official, TikTok’s China-based owner, ByteDance, doesn’t intend to sell. Read more updates on the U.S. TikTok ban inside.

Just two days ago, President Biden signed the TikTok divest-or-ban measure into law. The legislation received overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress. It gives TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, up to a year to sell its U.S.… Read more

Diddy Files Motion To Dismiss Revenge Porn Portion Of Sexual Assault Lawsuit

Lawyers for Diddy rebuked a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault and filed a motion to dismiss elements of it.

Last Friday (April 26), the legal team for Diddy filed a motion in a New York court to dismiss parts of a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him, stating that  the allegations “were brought under statutes that did not exist at the time the alleged misconduct occurred.”

The legal documents explicitly point to the charges of revenge porn and human trafficking that should be dismissed outright by the court as they were not in existence at the time of the allegation.… Read more

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