Tag: Liberians in Minnesota
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...
Coca-Cola executive to speak at Liberian-American Townhall in Minnesota
Coca-Cola executive, Alexander B. Cummings, Jr. will tomorrow (Saturday, September 12) participate in "Community Conversation" and engage Liberians in Minnesota in a Town Hall...
Barway unites community in emotional funeral ceremony
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the Mshale print edition last week. Pick one for a more extensive photo spread of the funeral...
Mayor Lunde of Brooklyn Park and ex-soccer player turned presidential aspirant,...
The Organization of Liberians in Minnesota (OLM) will hold its Inaugural Ball on Saturday, March 14 at Northbrook Alliance Church in Brooklyn Center. The...
Ebola: Precautionary measures needed to save families and community
The recent Ebola case of Mr. Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas, Texas raises concern and fear in the West African Community, particularly in the...
Liberia’s Finance Minister speech draws mixed reactions in Minnesota
After weeks of contentions and bickering surrounding the decision of the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota – OLM – the lead community organization, to...
Jambo Africa plans grand opening in Brooklyn Center
Jambo Africa Restaurant makes its official debut on Saturday, March 23 starting at noon through 9pm. Located in the same strip mall as the...
National Oil Company of Liberia to hold Diaspora forum in Minnesota...
The Organization of Liberians in Minnesota (OLM), in collaboration with the City of Brooklyn Park, will host a consultative community forum on the establishment...