Independent Business News Network - "A Dying Mothers Plea to the Minneapolis Urban League

Dec. 10, 2008 - PRLog -- Regina Edwards is a 40 year old Black woman with 6 children who has lived in north Minneapolis for the last 6 years. Regina is dying of colon cancer.  The doctors say they cannot operate. In the mix of it all  her furnace is not working, her house is cold and she has no food in her refrigerator do to her electric being cut off and having to throw all her food away.  As we speak (during this interview) she’s getting ready to go to Chemotherapy at North Memorial Hospital. There is no one but her 18 year old daughter to take care of the siblings.  No relatives, no grandparents…no one.

Regina has been a political activist and worked at the Urban League of Greater Madison and the City of Madison. She also has worked for the International Culinary School in Burnsville, Minnesota and graduated from Minneapolis Community Technical College in May with a degree in Culinary Arts.  Regina’s path to education, wealth and independence was tracking in the right direction.

But there’s a lot more to Regina’s story. Besides having her new home robbed by the people who lived there before, after the landlord gave her the key without changing the locks the day before Thanksgiving, there has been a list of events that have happened to Regina that she needs to let out.  So let’s start with the Minneapolis Urban League.  Regina says she knew things where strange at the Minneapolis Urban League when the leadership was like, “the Pink Panther,” says Ms. Edwards, “These people don’t want address any issue other than their paychecks. They creep around as if they are invisible.”

Regina said, “I’m tired of fighting. From the social workers at the hospital to Section 8 - there was no one available at the Minneapolis Urban League to address, assist or advise me on what to do and how a dying mother can get assistance for herself and her children in a true time of need.”  As I talk to her tonight, her young daughter wants to use the computer to do homework – but Regina says to her daughter, “You can’t plug the computer in when the heaters are plugged in because the fuse will blow in the basement.” Regina, doesn’t like going in the basement that has flooded this summer and is filled with mold.  She has 4 of the children sleep in the bed with her to keep warm.

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