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The Independent Business News · 5M ago

Merry Christmas from the Independent Business News Network

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The Independent Business News · 5M ago

ON POINT! Special Christmas show LIVE from Washington, DC

Northside Achievement Zone’s Sondra Sameuls said on Friday, December 23rd at approximately 9:45 a.m. -  in regards to the $28 million grant, “If the outcomes don’t get better in 5-years, I’ll step down.” Does that mean another name-change is in the making?   …ON POINT! travels to the nations capital
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The Independent Business News · 5M ago

Kim Ellison comes out on top for the Minneapolis Public School Board

Even with the lowdown, dirty tricks played by the African American Leadership Forum to set Ms. Ellison on the back burner, a quiet, unique, honest and humble person is now on the MPS board.  “Shame on @#@$!! AALF.” Fast Tube by Casper by Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief/IBNN NEWS and Black Po
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The Independent Business News · 5M ago

African American Leadership Forum needs to stay out of MPS Board Member decision

by Donald W.R. Allen, II – Editor in Chief/IBNN NEWS and Black Politics in Minneapolis The Star Tribune newspaper reports the African American Leadership Forum is recommending former MPS Board member T Williams who lost in the 2010 school board race. One of the more popular choices is NAACP Educatio
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The Independent Business News · 5M ago

In the name of Jesus Christ and Poor People, but no relationship with the Neighborhood

Look into the eyes, they tell the story…don’t blink or the money will be gone, ala the Empowerment Zone.
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The Independent Business News · 5M ago

Occupy da Hood Twin Cities: Don’t we already?

Addressing the ills of the community doesn’t seem the mission for a lifeless carbon copy of the mainstream movement that should tell us, “We’re late to the table again.” On Monday, December 19th at the Capri Theater in Minneapolis, a gathering of Occupy the Hood will take place at 6 p.m. – I think t
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The Independent Business News · 5M ago

All Silent at the Minnepolis Urban League. Tune in to ON POINT! at 4 p.m. today (12/17)

Tune in today at 4 p.m. for one of the most talked about radio programs in the Twin Cities and across the globe. ON POINT! will give a very important history lesson today. Click here to listen – today’s topic: “The FAIL of Minneapolis’ Black Infrastructure.”
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The Independent Business News · 5M ago

The Real Story behind Hollman/Heritage Park – Will a Grand Jury Investigation follow?

  “I case you haven’t been told, the hands have been shook, the names have been took; the house niggas have been picked, the other niggas have been tricked. Again, In case you haven’t be told, the North side of Minneapolis has already been sold! So pick up your tail and ride the light rail, [...]
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The Independent Business News · 5M ago

Cosby’s plea to parents: “Before you get to the point where you say ‘I can’t do nothing with them’, do something with them.”

The posting is a prelude to an IBNN NEWS Exclusive Report involving the Minneapolis Public Schools. Stay tuned… Re-posted by IBNN NEWS Washington, DC (Source: Rainbow Push Conference)…The Reverend Jesse Jackson almost never gets upstaged and I had never seen the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson cry in p
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The Independent Business News · 5M ago

Black Leaders fight over pennies while business deals close all around them: City to foreclose on Heritage Park – is Black Business an Oxymoron in Minneapolis?

I was going to write a very stern piece against the city of Minneapolis, Catalyst Community Partners and the Ackerberg Group – but after talking to several older businessmen around the United States, I have to say “congratulations” to the city and Mr. Stu Ackerberg for throwing pennies out in the st
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