Tag: Black Elected Officials in Minnesota
Tenant-landlord bill agreement would protect domestic violence victims, omit prohibition of...
The conference committee on a bill to modify residential housing tenant and landlord provisions reached an agreement Monday.
The proposed legislation would, among other things,...
Brooklyn Park Council Member Boyd Morson: Censuring me won’t make me...
On Monday April 15, Brooklyn Park Mayor Hollies J. Winston and four of my colleagues at the City Council passed a resolution to censure...
Glass ceiling at Minnesota state senate shatters as 3 Black women...
The 2023 swearing in of lawmakers who were elected to Minnesota’s state legislature was like no other before. The ceremony, which was held on...
Bobby Joe Champion becomes first Black president of the Minnesota Senate
Sen. Bobby Joe Champion of North Minneapolis was on Thursday named as the new Senate president, becoming the first Black person to do so....
African immigrants flexed their political muscles in the 2020 U.S elections,...
Six years ago, a 21-year-old Ethiopian refugee named Oballa Oballa walked into the mayor’s office in Austin, Minn., and asked what he could do...
