Tag: African Politicians in America
Don Samuels raises $400K in race against Ilhan Omar
Former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, raised $400,034 in the first quarter of 2024,...
District 38A DFL convention ends with no endorsement to succeed Rep....
For close to three hours on Saturday, DFL delegates in District 38A met in a Brooklyn Park Middle School gym to endorse a candidate...
Rep. Ilhan Omar hires former Jon Ossoff aide as campaign manager
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has hired a key member of the 2021 Jon Ossoff U.S. Senate runoff campaign in Georgia that gave Democrats control of...
Local nonprofit building next generation of African women leaders
In January of 2023, Minnesotans watched as three Black women were sworn into the state senate for the first time in history. As the...
Nadia Mohamed sworn in as mayor of St. Louis Park, making...
The city of St. Louis Park (SLP), Minnesota, has a population that is more than 80% white, according to United States Census Bureau data....
Nadia Mohamed becomes first Somali elected mayor of U.S. city
In 2019, 23-year-old Nadia Mohamed made history when she became the youngest person elected to the city council in the city of St. Louis...
Nadia Mohamed, St. Louis Park’s youngest council member ever elected, files...
Nadia Mohamed, a state DEI specialist and current mayor pro tem of the St. Louis Park City Council, filed officially to run for mayor...
‘Amazing feeling.’ 1st Somali mayor in US shares her vision
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Deqa Dhalac is the first Somali immigrant to become the mayor of a U.S. city, but she describes her rise...