Award-winning journalist and author Michele Norris will deliver the keynote speech at the 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast in Minneapolis on Jan. 20, 2025. It will start at 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Minnesota’s Grammy-winning Sounds of Blackness will provide the musical entertainment and Threads Dance Project will deliver a special performance. A choral reading will be done...
State Sen. Omar Fateh hosted his mayoral campaign kick-off event at the Brian Coyle community center on Saturday, less than two weeks after he announced he is running. Enthusiastic local residents packed the center’s gym along with community elders and local politicians to show their support for Fateh’s run to challenge incumbent mayor Jacob Frey.
If elected in November, he...
Brooklyn Center is seeking community members to serve on the Cultural and Public Arts Commission and the Sister Cities Commission.
Cultural and Public Arts commissioners get to advise the city on beautification and public art initiatives. The Commission guides planning and decision-making to “promote civic pride, diversity, equity, and inclusion through public art.”
Its commissioners serve a three-year term and it...
State Sen. Omar Fateh, the first Somali American and first Muslim to serve in the Minnesota Senate, announced his bid for Minneapolis Mayor on Monday at City Hall.
Minneapolis has only elected a Black mayor once before – in 1993 when Sharon Sayles Belton won and served two terms.
Sen. Fateh, a son of Somali immigrants, was elected to the Minnesota...
The St. Cloud City Council on Monday, after interviewing nine candidates, appointed Somali-born Hudda Ibrahim to represent Ward 3 replacing Councilmember Jake Anderson who won his election for Mayor in November. Ibrahim will serve the rest of Anderson’s term which was to end in 2026.
Mayor-elect Anderson, who doesn’t take office until January, resigned his council seat after his mayoral...
Remarks by President Biden Honoring the Past and Future of the Angolan-U.S. Relationship on Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Transcript provided by The White House Press Office
THE PRESIDENT: You are a brave crowd to come out in the rain. I brought my hat just in case. I don’t have much hair to help me. (Laughter.)
Leaders of Angola, government and civil society,...
When Minnesota state Rep.-elect Huldah Momanyi Hiltsley decided to run for election, she knew it was not just her hopes that she carried, but those of an entire community.
But the new state lawmaker says the days following her electoral success have magnified for her the huge responsibility ahead – that of “turning those dreams into action.”
On Sunday, Minnesota’s Kenyan...
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...