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With all 7 precincts in the West District of Brooklyn Park reporting last night, Liberian born Wynfred Russell, came within 5 votes of being...

A special screening of the film, Murder in the Cassava Patch, will take place at North Hennepin Community College Fine Arts Theater on friday,...

Over 50 people gathered on February 21 for the African Career, Education & Resource, Inc.‘s (ACER) Community Leader Forum to learn details of the Bottineau Transitway project and discuss how to become engaged in the process.

When voters go to the polls in next Tuesday's primary races in Minnesota, the slate of candidates to choose from will have expanded from the last elections to include the burgeoning African immigrant community in the state.

Robbinsdale, Minnesota--Their faces somber they milled into a church in Robbinsdale, a few miles from Brooklyn Park where many Liberians live. There was tension and fear in their voices as they chat among themselves.

These approximately three hundred Liberians were gathered on a chilly Sunday evening to learn how they could petition US legislators, to extend the temporary immigration status (TPS) for about 1000 Liberians in Minnesota. They hope that they will eventually be granted US residency. With about two months before the TPS expiration, an immediate extension is preferred as it would take immigration officials longer to process the paperwork needed for residency.

Over the years Minnesota has been home to immigrant communities from different countries all over the world. In the last ten years, Minnesota has seen the exponential growth of immigrants, especially refugees from Liberia, Somalia and Ethiopia.

The Brooklyn United Methodist Church (BUMC) launched a massive campaign in June to raise HIV/AIDS awareness among Liberians residing in Minnesota.

There have been a lot of hurtful remarks made by surrogates of the three remaining presidential contenders about a candidate's race, gender or age. Democratic presidential nominiee Sen. Barack Obama took a lot of heat recently because of remarks he made during a fund-raiser in San Francisco. He was explaining the difficulty he is facing winning working-class white voters, especially those from small rural towns.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – A pre-screening and panel discussion of the public television film  Iron Ladies of Liberia  left many in the audience of about 125 people, some with ties to the country which the film portrayed, inspired, motivated and hopeful for the future of a nation that has experienced tremendous strife in recent years.

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. – Kerper A. Dwanyen’s rivals in the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota’s presidential elections must have know very early that he was the man to beat. Perhaps that is why, a few weeks before the Dec. 2 elections, some of his opponents renewed accusations that as the leader of the Nimba Redemption Council, during Liberia’s civil war, Dwanyen had been involved in atrocities against innocent civilians.

For Liberians in America, it is going to be another summer of political drama and high suspense in courtrooms and congress chambers around the world.