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The flags were a sign that Somali Independence Day was nearing, and the Somali community was marking the day by holding a festival Saturday. Known as Somali Week, the festival drew thousands to a four-block stretch along Lake Street. The festival showcased simply a snippet of the pride Somalis hold for their country, despite challenges the East African country...
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. - A couple dozen Kenyan Americans and their children gathered at Centennial Park on Sunday and issued a statement calling for the resignation of Kenya’s president as they chanted "Ruto must go."
The call for President Ruto’s resignation comes days after he activated the country’s military to protect his regime, following the storming of parliament on Tuesday...
Early voting in Minnesota’s August 13 primary begins Friday, June 28 and will last through August 12.
The August 13 primary will feature races for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, Minnesota House of Representatives and, depending in the city you live in, an array of local elections like your city council.
Races Mshale is tracking closely include that in...
Representing Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District has been the honor of my life. As a little girl huddled in a refugee camp, displaced by a civil war that tore my birth country of Somalia apart, I just wanted to survive. I could have never imagined that I would have the privilege of representing the community that welcomed me with open...
In celebration of Juneteenth, thousands gathered on Minnehaha Avenue and Lake Street for the Soul of the Southside Festival. The goal of the festival was to create space centered around Blackness, kinship, and community, according to the Black-owned creative hub, The Legacy Building. The event brought south Minneapolis into the limelight by exhibiting its Black creativity, entrepreneurship, togetherness, and...
The City of Brooklyn Park hosted its annual celebration of Juneteenth, a holiday that is often referred to as the Independence Day of African Americans.
The Juneteenth celebration kicked off with a parade. Sounds of snare drums, bass drums and children rhythmically screaming echoed off buildings as a local dance group, Unlimited & Next Level Drill & Dance marched around...
A century old architectural jewel in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis, burned following the George Floyd protests, has been rehabbed and restored to grandeur under new ownership consisting of three women, one of them an architect.
On Juneteenth, Gov. Tim Walz, Mayor Jacob Frey, City Council members and a jubilant crowd joined with the three news owners, Alicia Belton, Janice...
I knew there would be hardships when I immigrated to the United States alone, with $87 dollars in my pocket. There was no illusion that my new home was perfect. However, I knew that I was setting a course for opportunities that were unavailable to a low-income student in post-colonial Jamaica. America was a land of possibilities for me,...
Rep. Ilhan Omar and several elected officials and activists held a press conference in Minneapolis Tuesday morning, calling on voters to make reproductive rights a major campaign issue in the upcoming general elections.
Omar urged voters to mobilize and elect pro-choice Democratic candidates in order to safeguard reproductive health care protections to women, both in Minnesota and nationwide. The press...
Former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels, a candidate for Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District, has secured crucial endorsements from two influential unions as he heads into the August 13th Democratic primary against incumbent Rep. Ilhan Omar.
This is the first union endorsement he has received.
Samuels’s new endorsers are United Steelworkers, a union representing 1.2 million members across various industries, and...