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Dozens of Brooklyn Park residents last evening crammed into city council chambers to witness history being made in Minnesota’s sixth largest city, the swearing in of the city's first black council member, Wynfred Russell, who was born and raised in Liberia. Russell, a former instructor at the University of Minnesota, defeated former council member Bob Mata by garnering a convincing...

New enrollments of international students fell by 6.6 percent at American universities in academic year 2017-18 compared to the year before, marking the second straight year in declines in new enrollments, according to new data from the annual Open Doors survey. New enrollments fell 6.3 percent at the undergraduate level, 5.5 percent at the graduate level and 9.7 percent at the nondegree level from...

With funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, remains uncertain, Minnesota families that rely on the assistance to feed their families are turning to food banks and nonprofits. 440,000 Minnesotans are SNAP recipients according to the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth and Families. 152,000 of those recipients are children while 72,000 are seniors. The remaining 52,000 are...

When supporters of St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter III gathered Tuesday night at The Black Hart, a bar in the Midway neighborhood, many of them didn’t seem too worried that he would not be re-elected. They watched election results display across the TV screens, many glancing at their cell phone repeatedly, looking confirmation that Carter would be re-elected to lead...

Mayor Jacob Frey has won a third term as mayor of Minneapolis after winning enough votes in the second round this morning. In the city’s Ranked Choice Voting system, no candidate reached the 50% threshold needed to be declared the winner in Tuesday’s election. He netted 50% of the total votes to Fateh’s 44%. Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services posted results...

In the hotly contested election for Mayor of Minneapolis, no candidate reached the 50% threshold needed to be declared the winner. Minneapolis uses Ranked Choice Voting for its municipal elections and after all precincts reported Tuesday night, incumbent Mayor Frey was leading among the candidates voters ranked first on their ballot, with 42% of the vote. State Sen. Omar Fateh...

More than 23,000 Minneapolis voters have cast early ballots as of today, ahead of tomorrow’s (Nov. 4) mayoral and city council election, making it the second-highest early voting turnout for its local elections. The city has 255,980 registered voters which means over nine percent of them have voted early. The highest was in 2021, the year after the killing of...

Election Day is just a few days away on Tuesday Nov. 4 in Minneapolis but election officials in the city are making it easier for those who want to vote early in-person but can only do it on weekends. Minneapolis voters will be voting for mayor, the city council, the park board and for members of the board of estimate...

By Rebecca Santana WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans, a dramatic drop announced Thursday that effectively suspends America’s traditional role as a haven for those fleeing war and persecution. The move cements a major shift in policy toward refugees...

On Saturday, former New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman who AIPAC spent an unprecedented $14.5 million to defeat last year, stopped in Minneapolis for a quick rally aimed at get-out-the-vote volunteers canvassing in north Minneapolis for mayoral candidate Omar Fateh, and city council candidates Marvina Haynes and Ethrophic Burnett. The election is next week on November 4 and voters in Minneapolis...

Kenyans in the U.S. dreaming of having a bank account in Kenya will have a powerful resource at their fingertips in the coming days as that country’s second largest bank kicked off its Diaspora Roadshow in Minnesota on Friday. Prominent Kenyan American, Mr. Sam Ireri - a longtime Wells Fargo commercial banker until last year - is now director of...

Kowsar Mohamed, a PhD student from the Twin Cities, has officially begun her term as the student-at-large representative on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents, becoming the first Somali American woman to hold the position. Mohamed was born in Minneapolis to Somali immigrants and raised in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, a bustling immigrant community known for its cultural vibrancy. In...

Senegal never left me,” Alune Wade said to Mshale in a recent interview. Born in Dakar, capital of Senegal, now living in Paris, traveling around the globe touring with bass guitar in one hand and a microphone in the other, this versatile musician’s heart still beats for his beloved Africa. He switches with ease from French to English to Wolof....