 After Nicollet Avenue South in Minneapolis was blocked by the Kmart at Lake Street, a one block long, one-way street was added in order to allow north bound traffic from 1st Avenue South to get over to Nicollet; it was named Cecil Newman Lane.The now "Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder" (formerly the "Minneapolis Spokesman" and the "St. Paul Recorder"), is the oldest continuously operated black newspaper & possibly longest-lived black-owned business.in Minnesota, In 1958 it moved to 3744 Fourth Avenue South.In 2015, the "Spokesman-Recorder" celebrated its eightieth anniversary and was designated a historic landmark.