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Antone Melton-Meaux: African immigrant communities deserve more from their government

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The Fifth Congressional District and Minnesota are blessed with some of the largest African communities outside of the continent. Everyday, we see the value...

Gov. Tim Walz: Safely educating our children during a pandemic

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As a classroom teacher for more than 20 years, I know firsthand how resilient, strong, and flexible our students and educators are. There’s nobody...

Your guide to the Brooklyn Park primary for City Council

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Brooklyn Park voters will go to the polls August 11 during the state primary, to cast their ballots for the most diverse pool of...

Minneapolis Sixth Ward Special Election: How Ranked Choice Voting works

Minneapolis first adopted ranked choice voting, a largely unfamiliar and controversial system, for the 2009 city election. It has been used to elect officials...

Rep. Ilhan Omar faces uphill task to keep her seat in Congress

In 2018, Ilhan Omar made history as the first person born in the African continent to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives,...

Arts Midwest to give out $1.68 million to under-resourced arts and culture organizations

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced on Tuesday June 16 its initiative to grant 10 million in emergency grants to six United States Regional...

Kenya wins final contested seat on Security Council

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Kenya has been elected a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, defeating Djibouti for a seat designated for African countries. UN Member States chose...

Juneteenth in Minnesota: Schedule of Events

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Here are the Juneteenth celebrations in Minnesota that we are aware of. Most are virtual events in observance of social distancing guidelines in the...

Nur Omar Mohamed, father of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, dies from coronavirus complications

On Monday June 15 Nur Omar Mohamed, the father of congresswoman Ilhan Omar, died from COVID-19 complications. "إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ. Inna lillahi wa...

Minneapolis mosque offers free food and essentials in aftermath of George Floyd unrest

Places of worship were closed before the killing of George Floyd due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, the aftermath of the killing of Floyd,...

Meet the Minneapolis Sixth Ward candidates, special election is August 11

Mshale reached out to the candidates that have officially filed to fill the vacant Minneapolis Sixth Ward seat and asked them to respond to...