SPOTLIGHT: MIDWEST ARTIST OF COLOR
CheyValentine is a 21 year old passionate spaz who makes midwest music with an east coast flavor. Originally from Connecticut by way of NYC, Chey has been performing, singing, and writing since she was about 12 years old. Her notable performances include the Power to the People Stage at the Twin Cities Pride festival 2012, Communities United Against Police Brutality’s May 2013 fundraiser Rock 4 Responsible Cops, and the Catherine’s Monologues Project 2011-1013. Chey is also 1 of 4 co-founders of The B.QullecTivE, a new community org based in the Twin Cities, MN serving exclusively queer and trans* poc communities.
Chey claims her space as an artist because she has to- it’s in her blood and it keeps her sane. So she creates and develops every word and sound that comes our of her the best she can. As Chey grows as an artist she hopes to find her way to creating a communal universal shift in the world through creative work and alternative education.
Chey is a personal friend of mine, and someone I consider chosen family. She’s affected my life in so many positive ways I cannot even begin to count nor list.
Chey inspires me every day we are around eachother! I strongly encourage you to check out her work and support fellow artists of color.
To see more of her work, you can find her blog Here
Or email her here: l.v.bryant2@gmail.com
Much love,
- Lane
Our idea to create The B.Steady Project started the way most great ideas come about: with good food, good music, and best friends. We (Chey, Clara, Jai, and Lane, pictured below) were hanging out one day and listening to one of our favorite queer brown musicians, B.Steady, who is a Washington D.C…There’s only 28 days left ya’ll!!!! we need to raise 1600 bucks by May 30th and we are 16% of the way to our goal. When you contribute to the B.Steady project you’ll even get an awesome gift for your donation when we’ve finished fundraising. Support brown queer artists by donating to The B.Steady Project and B.QullecTivE!
Other updates as well: we are now on twitter!! follow at: https://twitter.com/TheBQullecTivE
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Chisholm assisted-living facility left man sitting in filth
When the ambulance crew members arrived at the assisted-living facility in Chisholm, Minn., they entered a room so foul with the smell of urine that their eyes watered. Inside, the furniture was filthy and ripped, and black mold festered on a table. Old cans of food were strewn about, and the bed had no linens.
Sitting in a recliner amid the filth was a resident with developmental disabilities and mental illness — unconscious and suffering from critically low blood sugar due to diabetes and a urinary tract infection. He was barely alive. The crew stabilized him and rushed him to a nearby hospital, and he is now recovering from an undetermined period of neglect documented in a report by a state investigator.
The report, due to be released Friday by the Minnesota Department of Health, has concluded that the resident was the victim of neglect at the facility — Hillcrest Terrace at Chisholm. Investigators found that the staff failed to tell a nurse about the man’s steadily deteriorating condition and failed “to maintain a livable environment.”
The agency has cited the facility for lack of supervision, failure to enforce cleaning duties and the failure of employees to recognize the resident’s critical condition, according to the report.
The case has been referred to the St. Louis County attorney’s office for possible criminal charges in failure to care for a vulnerable adult. No fine was recommended by the Health Department.
A lawyer for Hillcrest’s owner declined to comment on the case Wednesday.
“We do not comment on a particular resident’s care and treatment, nor do we discuss quality-of-care standards,” attorney Steve Laitinen said. “In those infrequent instances where the care of a client has posed a concern, Hillcrest has worked diligently with the Department of Health.”
State officials reacted angrily when told of the report’s findings.
“I’m appalled at the conditions there and will look at who was supposed to be monitoring his care,” said Roberta Opheim, Minnesota ombudsman for mental health and developmental disabilities. “I will have someone visit that particular facility immediately.”
Hillcrest Terrace is owned by Range Development Co., which owns 14 assisted-living and Alzheimer’s care facilities in northern Minnesota. Two developmentally disabled people and 12 to 15 people with mental health ailments live at Hillcrest.
In 2011, the same facility was cited for neglect of a resident who suffered a broken arm and was not treated for at least a month, causing lasting bone damage, according to an earlier investigation.
Paul McEnroe • 612-673-1745
At 105, Mpls Pastor Has No Plans To Retire
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Sunday mornings at Wayman AME Church in Minneapolis brings a faithful crowd. But it’s quite likely no one there has said as many prayers as Noah Smith. It’s not just because he’s a preacher, it’s because he’s had more time to worship – over a century in fact.
At 105, Smith is still hard at work, preaching at Wayman.
Black folks be stylin on youuuu~
Black Sundays MN is an ongoing event page that serves as an outlet for People of Color in the midwest to meet, organize, and develop our community.
![Michelle Alexander, a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and New York Times best-selling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness will be on campus Monday, April 8, 2013. Alexander holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. Prior to entering academia, Alexander served as director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she became passionate about exposing and challenging racial bias in the criminal justice system. She ultimately launched a major campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement known as the DWB Campaign, or Driving While Black or Brown Campaign.
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Michelle Alexander, a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar and New York Times best-selling author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness will be on campus Monday, April 8, 2013. Alexander holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. Prior to entering academia, Alexander served as director of the Racial Justice Project for the ACLU of Northern California, where she became passionate about exposing and challenging racial bias in the criminal justice system. She ultimately launched a major campaign against racial profiling by law enforcement known as the DWB Campaign, or Driving While Black or Brown Campaign.
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