Below is a guide Mshale staff has put together if you haven’t yet voted early by 5 p.m. today (Nov. 1) in the Minneapolis and St. Paul municipal elections happening tomorrow (Nov. 2).
Registered to vote?
If you are in Minneapolis and are not sure if you are already registered to vote, you can find out your status and if you...
Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty were joined by the state's Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm on Tuesday, Oct. 26 in North Minneapolis to receive their booster shots of the COIVID-19 vaccine.
The trio received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in March and the CDC recently said all patients who received the Johnson & Johnson at least...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Children under 18 and people from dozens of countries with a shortage of vaccines will be exempt from new rules that will require most travelers to the United States be vaccinated against COVID-19, the Biden administration announced.
The government said Monday it will require airlines to collect contact information on passengers regardless of whether they have been...
The City of Brooklyn Park announced Tuesday that the city has hired its first racial equity, diversity and inclusion (REDI) manager.
Dr. Marcellus Davis, until recently the director of equity and engagement for the White Bear Lake Area Schools and a resident of Brooklyn Park, will lead the city’s recently created position of Racial Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Manager (REDI)....
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has become the latest high profile elected Minnesota official to call on Minneapolis voters to get rid of current Mayor Jacob Frey.
At a news conference Monday outside city hall flanked by Frey challengers Kate Knuth and Sheila Nezhad, Omar announced her endorsement of the two women as better choices for Minneapolis because “both share my vision...
Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota on Monday announced a new $200 vaccine incentive aimed at 12- to 17-year-olds and a chance for them to win a $100,000 college scholarship.
Under the program called “Kids Deserve a Shot,” the kids can receive a $200 VISA gift card if they get vaccinated between Oct. 18 and Nov. 30.
Minnesota Department of Health records...
The Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage is inviting input from the community via a short online survey to inform its priorities for the next legislative session.
The Council was created by the Minnesota legislature to advise the governor and the legislature on issues confronting People of African Heritage.
In addition to its advisory roles, each year it organizes the 'African...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta discussed financial transparency during their White House meeting Thursday, as the East African leader faces scrutiny over revelations that he and his family stashed millions of dollars in hidden offshore accounts.
Kenyatta is one of more than 330 current and former politicians identified as beneficiaries of secret accounts revealed...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Joe Biden plans to address the need for “transparency and accountability” in international and domestic financial systems when he meets Thursday with Kenya’s leader. President Uhuru Kenyatta is under scrutiny over revelations that he and his family stashed millions of dollars in hidden offshore accounts.
Kenyatta is one of more than 330...
On Tuesday, October 12, at 6 p.m. CST, Mshale and its production partners Somali TV of Minnesota, SPEAK MPLS and Somali American Radio will present a town hall forum on cable television and Facebook Live featuring the only challenger to incumbent Jamal Osman in the Minneapolis Ward 6 race. The town hall is part of Mshale’s candidate forums hosted...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — U.K.-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose experience of crossing continents and cultures has fed his novels about the impact of migration on individuals and societies, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.
The Swedish Academy said the award was in recognition of Gurnah’s “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of...
