Tag: African Politicians in Minnesota
Minneapolis Sixth Ward Special Election: How Ranked Choice Voting works
Minneapolis first adopted ranked choice voting, a largely unfamiliar and controversial system, for the 2009 city election. It has been used to elect officials...
Rep. Ilhan Omar faces uphill task to keep her seat in...
In 2018, Ilhan Omar made history as the first person born in the African continent to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives,...
Meet the Minneapolis Sixth Ward candidates, special election is August 11
Mshale reached out to the candidates that have officially filed to fill the vacant Minneapolis Sixth Ward seat and asked them to respond to...
Minnesota encourages residents to participate in national census
Today April 1 is Census Day and state and local government officials have been using the weeks leading up to it to encourage all...
Mshale Editorial: The growing influence of Africa-born politicians in Minnesota politics
Editor's note: This editorial first appeared in the February print edition of Mshale.
Last month after the swearing-in into office of a historic number of...
Wynfred Russell takes oath of office as Brooklyn Park’s first black...
Dozens of Brooklyn Park residents last evening crammed into city council chambers to witness history being made in Minnesota’s sixth largest city, the swearing...