Tag: Minneapolis Star-Tribune

  • Early black lawyer, wife endured bigotry Minneapolis Star-Tribune 2016-02-13 Curt Brown Nellie and William Francis were doing so well in 1924 they decided to move four miles southwest in St. Paul — leaving their Rondo neighborhood for a house in the Groveland Park area near the Mississippi River. The 1920 census listed the couple, married…

  • White mayor, black wife: Bill de Blasio and Chirlane McCray shatter an image in New York City Minneapolis Star-Tribune 2013-11-16 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity The Associated Press Another milestone is passing in America’s racial journey: The next mayor of New York City is a white man with a black wife. Even in a…