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Jan 7, 2025 | 
spokesman-recorder.com | Tony Kiene |Stacy Brown |Nadine Matthews |Abdi Mohamed
Posted inTelevision FOX’s new medical drama Doc follows the story of a brilliant doctor who loses her memory and must fight her way back into her career at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis, inspired by real-life events, and featuring a stellar cast and a unique premise.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
spokesman-recorder.com | Tony Kiene
The Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder launched its 90th Anniversary Celebration weekend in style this past Friday night on its annual Legacy Yacht Cruise. Setting sail down the St. Croix, the historic Majestic Star was at full capacity, and a few early spells of rain ultimately gave way to bright sunshine and a beautiful night sky high above one of America’s original National Scenic Riverways.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
sdvoice.info | Tony Kiene
By Tony KieneA report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that in 2020, the opioid-related death rate among Black Americans exceeded that of their white counterparts for the first time since the opioid crisis was declared in the United States some two decades ago. In fact, during 2020 alone, deaths among Black Americans due to opioids increased by 44%, according to the CDC. For those between the ages of 15 to 24, the death rate nearly doubled.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
spokesman-recorder.com | Tony Kiene
Minneapolis-based Hue-MAN Partnership is a coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to addressing issues that are critical to the overall health and wellness of local communities across the Twin Cities, particularly those that have been historically underserved and underrepresented. Among the issues they’ve tackled in recent years is the ongoing opioid crisis and its increasingly disparate impact on populations of color.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
spokesman-recorder.com | Tony Kiene
Back in the fall of 2017, author, radio host and music journalist Andrea Swenson published her critically acclaimed debut, “Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound.” It not only garnered her a Minnesota Book Award but put to rest the spurious notion that there was not a vibrant Black music scene here in the Twin Cities prior to the emergence of Prince and his ultra-talented compatriots at the dawn of the 1980s.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
spokesman-recorder.com | Tony Kiene
After 29 days of active paddling on her historic “Source to Sea” journey, during which time she covered well over 1,000 miles, Devin Brown has been forced to suspend her quest to become the first Black woman to kayak the entire length of the Mississippi River, from the Minnesota headwaters at Lake Itasca to Mile Marker Zero in the Gulf of Mexico. This summer, unprecedented flooding has occurred along the Mississippi and many of its tributaries, some of which are at or beyond record water levels.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
spokesman-recorder.com | Tony Kiene
Since the beginning of the 21st century, hundreds of thousands of Americans have died of accidental overdoses caused by the synthetic drug fentanyl. Since 2016 alone, when fentanyl entered the national lexicon following the death of Prince, fentanyl-related deaths have nearly quadrupled. And today, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 90 percent of all opioid-related overdose deaths involve fentanyl.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
spokesman-recorder.com | Tony Kiene
A career in professional football is what Damōn Chaplin had in mind when he matriculated to Norwich University, a private senior military college located in Northfield, Vermont. An injury ended those dreams, but the Boston native wasn’t deterred. When he transferred to Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio, to study biology, it was “all about academics.” Chaplin became the first member of his family to graduate from a four-year institution.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
spokesman-recorder.com | Tony Kiene
Editor’s Note: This is an update to the story Kayaker Devin Brown to challenge the mighty Mississippi. Check back each week as we continue to follow Devin Brown’s trek down the Mississippi River. As Devin Brown set out on the fourth week on her “Source to Sea” journey she is steadily making her way toward Mile Marker Zero where the Mississippi River flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
spokesman-recorder.com | Tony Kiene
For the sixth time since Prince’s tragic death in April of 2016, Paisley Park hosted Celebration from June 20 – 24, welcoming fans from across the nation and around the world in commemoration of the life, music, and cultural legacy of Minneapolis’ favorite son.
