A community celebration is being held Sunday, Dec. 1 to celebrate the historic election of Huldah Momanyi Hiltsley as the first Kenyan-born state legislator in the United States.
Kenya’s new ambassador to the United States, Amb. David Kerich, will headline the event. Accompanying him will be the embassy’s deputy chief of mission Ambassador Christopher Kirugia.
Hiltsley, a Democrat, won a decisive...
Their music was magic from the first notes out of Habib Koité’s guitar on Wednesday evening, November 13th at The Cedar Cultural Center. A quartet of West African musicians graced the stage and bestowed the audience with sounds from Mali, Cote d’Ivoire, and Senegal.
Habib Koité on guitar, Aly Keita on balafon, and Lamine Cissokho on kora, and Mama Kone...
Hennepin County is looking for applicants to serve on its advisory boards. Members of the advisory boards advise county commissioners on issues and programs, help set policy, and deal with a variety of topics of concern to the county, according to the county.
All the advisory boards have varying levels of compensation which can either be per diem for each...
Open enrollment for Minnesota's health insurance marketplace, MNsure, started on November 1 and is continuing. The open enrollment period runs through Jan. 15, 2024.
If you enroll before Dec. 18, 2024, your coverage will begin on Jan. 1, 2025 and if you enroll after Dec. 15, your coverage will start on Feb. 1, 2025.
Plans are available at MNsure, and those...
The Hennepin County Canvassing Board has certified the results of the November 5, 2024 election, according to a news release Friday morning Nov. 15.
Voter turnout in this presidential election in the state’s most populous county topped 81%, compared to the 2020 presidential election when it was 85%. Total ballots cast were 724,543 compared to 760,044 in 2020.
More people voted on Election...
The Brooklyn Park City Council will have a female majority when two new members take the oath of office in January. Amanda Cheng Xiong defeated the twice censured Boyd Morson in a landslide to become the next councilmember for the East District. Incumbent XP Lee was not seeking reelection.
Xiong’s 7,279 votes represented more than 60% of those who voted,...
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar has secured a fourth term, defeating Republican challenger Dalia Al-Aqidi in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District by more than 50 percentage points as of midnight Tuesday when 90% of the precincts had reported. She had garnered 245,363 votes to Al-Aqidi’s 75,996.
The resounding victory marks a significant milestone for the Somali American congresswoman and the only African-born...
If Paul Wellstone, the late U.S. senator from Minnesota, is looking down from the heavens, he is smiling and happy to see what became of the young Kenyan woman whose family he saved from deportation decades ago.
That young woman was Huldah Momanyi Hiltsley, who made history on Tuesday. When voters chose her to represent District 38A in the Minnesota...
African immigrants should get out and vote in large numbers Tuesday because the 2024 elections could be the most consequential ever for the continent and its Diaspora, according to several leaders from the community.
The leaders include a former elected official, an incumbent up for re-election, and candidates seeking election on both Democratic and Republican tickets. They were responding to...
On Saturday Oct. 26, I went around the parking lot of Kenyan Community Church (KCC) in Brooklyn Center to drop off the latest print copies of Mshale. It is something I have done for 20 years on occasional Saturdays, the day of worship for the Seventh-day- Adventist (SDA) church that serves Kenyan immigrants.
Mshale has a contracted distributor who does...
On Sunday, the African Diaspora Coalition, gathered to give a financial boost to African diaspora candidates on the ballot next week in Minnesota House of Representative races. The fundraiser comes in the homestretch of the November election, where their victories will be vital in maintaining Democratic control of the Minnesota House.
The event, held at the Brooklyn Park Small Business...