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Cedar-Riverside stakeholders commit action, and funding, to quell violence

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In the weeks since Augsburg student Ahmednur Ali was shot and killed just feet from Currie Park and the Brian Coyle Community Center, area residents, community organizations and institutions, and police have stepped up efforts on a number of fronts to improve public safety and community relations in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.

Show Me the Money: Funding Your Small Business

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TAKSCO, LLC is a professional firm providing tax, customized accounting and strategic business consulting to clients in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metro area.

Tanzanians Trade Food for Financial Advice

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The generosity of the Tanzanian people resident in Minnesota was manifest Saturday as they entertained their friends at “A Taste of Tanzania”, an event that had more food than the crowd could handle.

Setting up a Small Business, What You Need to Know

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Mtaka Malinyingi arrived in the United States in 1999.  To make ends meet and to help support a large extended family back in his native Tanzania, he worked as an aide in various nursing homes, kitchens and day care centers. He has some modest savings in a local bank.

World Refugee Day Highlights Successes and Challenges of New Americans

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Twin-Cities residents assembled at the Brian Coyle Center in South Minneapolis to observe World Refugee Day on June 20.

Hussein Samatar Appointed to Minneapolis Library Board

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The same day Central Connecticut State University in New Britain released a study ranking Minneapolis as the second most literate city in the country, the newly reelected mayor of that city, RT Rybak, appointed Hussein Samatar, a Somali businessman to the Minneapolis Library board on November 29.

Somali Contributions in the Workplace

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The Itasca Project, a group of about 40 Twin Cities business leaders, academics and public officials in late October released a report called, "Mind the Gap," that it had commissioned. The report showed the seriousness top business leaders in the area attach to the influx of new immigrants that have come to the area. The report noted that Minnesota has the largest Hmong, Somali, and Liberian communities in the , a fact well known by recent census numbers. Immigrants from 160 countries came to Minnesota in 2002, the report noted.

 

Brooklyn Park’s Black History Month celebration highlights social justice and BioTech Innovation District

On Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 Brooklyn Park held its annual Black History Month Showcase at the Community Activity Center. Mshale photojournalist Jasmine Webber compiled...

Little Africa Plaza holds open house

A cultural shopping center built to showcase the potential and contributions of African immigrant businesses in the Twin Cities held an open house Tuesday,...

Meet Wole Osibodu: Brooklyn Park’s military veteran seeking a city council seat

Nigerian-American Wole Osibodu is no stranger to community leadership. For 27 years he served in the U.S. Army, where he managed squads of soldiers...

The Coliseum, one of few places Blacks could get credit in Minneapolis, reopened on...

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A century old architectural jewel in the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis, burned following the George Floyd protests, has been rehabbed and restored to grandeur...