The four candidates vying for the Brooklyn Park City Council East District open seat in the upcoming Feb. 8 special election will gather tonight at a live in-person candidate forum hosted by Mshale in partnership with Hmong TV, Insight News and Somali TV of Minnesota.
Moderated by Mshale reporter Cynthia Simba, candidates will be taking questions formulated by Mshale’s editorial...
To address the surging omicron COVID that is hitting Minnesota, the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Wednesday issued new rules for those visiting bars and restaurants and other community venues.
To enter these establishments for indoor dining or drinking, one will need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test. The negative test has to be...
Sorrow welled across a Bronx community Monday, a day after a fire and choking smoke engulfed a high-rise apartment building and claimed the lives of 17 people, eight of them children.
As survivors recalled the frantic chaos of their escape, bereft family and friends of those who perished coped with shock, disbelief and pain.
“Some people don’t even know that...
Minneapolis held a low-key but historic inauguration for its new City Council on Monday, January 10, 2022. The ceremony featured newly re-elected Mayor Jacob Frey, City Council Members and members of the Board of Taxation and Estimates. It was an historic occasion as for the first time in the history of Minneapolis, people of color are the majority in...
After three years leading Gov. Walz’s efforts in providing resources and training to Minnesota workers and businesses as deputy commissioner in the state’s economic development agency, Hamse Warfa announced his departure Monday following his appointment by President Biden to serve as a senior adviser in the U.S. State Department.
Since 2019 when he was appointed to the Department of Employment...
Huldah Momanyi-Hiltsley says she wants to be the next lawmaker to represent District 40 in the Minnesota State Senate. If she’s successful, the Kenyan American would be the first Black woman to ever be elected in the 67-member upper house of the state legislature.
“What has lacked over the years has been the representation in leadership, from the school...
African immigrants like the rest of America endured a life under the grip of the COVID-19 global pandemic for a second consecutive year. Still, 2021 also had its joyous moments, including African immigrants that took the opportunity to start their own businesses, or in the case of others, enter politics and succeed.
Mshale’s coverage of the second year of the...
The holiday rush to get COVID-19 tests to help with family gatherings may soon subside but with the highly contagious omicron variant still with us, the need for regular testing is becoming necessary.
According to the Minnesota Department of Health COVID dashboard, the seven-day average case rate in the state had been declining for most of December pre-holidays but has...
Hennepin County and the Metropolitan Council are seeking applications from community members and others to serve on a 21-member Anti-Displacement Workgroup for the Blue Line light-rail line extension, which will link downtown Minneapolis with Brooklyn Park.
The deadline to apply is Jan. 14.
The goal of the workgroup is to ensure existing residents and businesses along the line are not displaced...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders and people around the globe mourned the death of the man viewed as the country’s moral conscience.
Tutu worked passionately, tirelessly and non-violently to tear down...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will lift travel restrictions on eight southern African countries that it imposed to try to blunt the spread of the COVID omicron variant, the White House announced Friday.
The variant, which was first detected by scientists in South Africa, has since spread around the world. The World Health Organization and leaders in southern Africa criticized...
