Tag: Mayor Hollies Winston
Brooklyn Park’s Black History Month celebration highlights social justice and BioTech...
On Friday, Feb. 21, 2025 Brooklyn Park held its annual Black History Month Showcase at the Community Activity Center. Mshale photojournalist Jasmine Webber compiled...
McGarvey, Page and Xiong win Brooklyn Park’s city council election
The Brooklyn Park City Council will have a female majority when two new members take the oath of office in January. Amanda Cheng Xiong...
Brooklyn Park City Council decides to keep Boyd Morson under censure
Brookly Park City Councilmember Boyd Morson censure came up for a six-month review at the October 14 council meeting. He has been censured twice...
Brooklyn Park celebrates Nigerian sister city, honors actor Mofe-Damijo for role...
The city of Brooklyn Park celebrated the second year of its relationship with Udu, a Nigerian urban center that became a sister city in...
IgboFest 2023 brings tradition, dance and food to Brooklyn Park
Umunne Cultural Association in Minnesota held the 28th annual IgboFest on Saturday on the grounds of North Hennepin Community College. The festival celebrates the...
Mayor Hollies Winston delivers first State of the City address
In his first State of the City speech, held in the Community Activity Center’s grand room on Thursday, Mayor Hollies Winston of Brooklyn Park...
Ghanaians in Minnesota celebrate 66 years of their homeland’s independence
Ghanaian immigrants from all over Minnesota came together in the Twin Cities on Saturday to celebrate 66 years of their home country’s independence.
The Ghana...
Hollies Winston, Brooklyn Park’s first Black mayor, celebrates historic moment with...
Friends, family, and supporters gathered on Friday in Brooklyn Park to celebrate Hollies Winston, who on Jan. 9 became the first Black mayor of...
‘A Brooklyn Park for all’: Hollies Winston sworn in as city’s...
Hollies Winston, the businessman that successfully sold a vision of an inclusive city to voters in November, the grandson of a Mississippi sharecropper and...
Hollies Winston wins historic Brooklyn Park mayor’s race
Brooklyn Park elected its first Black mayor on Tuesday, handing over the reins of Minnesota’s sixth largest city to a businessman who shared a...