Tag: Liberians in Minnesota
Trump extends DED for Liberians another year
President Trump on Thursday reversed himself on the issue of termination of Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for Liberians and said "it is in the...
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...
Election 2018: Historic Liberian-American wins in Minnesota
The groundbreaking victory during last week's midterms by Ilhan Omar as the first Africa-born black person to be elected to the United States Congress...
Wake and funeral details for pastor Charles Goah released
The funeral details for the late pastor Charles Garjay Goah of the United Christian Fellowship Church have been released by the planning committe arranging...
Charles Goah, pastor and author, dies at 55
Charles Garjay Goah, a beloved Liberian-American pastor who delivered the gospel to many as the longtime pastor of United Christian Fellowship Church in Minneapolis'...
President Trump, citing American foreign policy interests, gives Liberians a 12-month...
President Trump today gave Liberians under the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) some breathing room through March 31, 2019. Their DED status that president Obama...
University of Liberia Research Institute head to speak in Brooklyn Park
The director of the institutes for research and policy studies at the University of Liberia, Dr. Carl Patrick Burrowes, will speak tomorrow in Brooklyn...
Stage set for Miss Liberia Minnesota pageant
The 2016 Miss Liberia Minnesota Scholarship Pageant will begin at 6 p.m. on October 29 at the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Downtown...
Meet Brooklyn Park’s new assistant city manager, Wokie Freeman
After leaving her native Liberia as a teenager during the start of the civil war in 1990, Wokie Freeman and her family moved to...
Family, friends remember and celebrate Henry McCabe
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (Mshale) - Hundreds of community members and high ranking State of Minnesota government employees gathered a week before Christmas to remember...
Minnesota Kenyans and Liberians mourn loss of two that shared first...
Kenyans and Liberians in Minnesota are in a state of shock after bodies of two members of their communities that share a first name...