Anika Bowie’s win part of historic all-women St. Paul City Council election
Anika Bowie wins Ward 1 race, securing St. Paul's first all-female city council.
Abdi Mohamed is the associate editor at the MN Spokesman-Recorder. He can be reached at amohamed@spokesman-recorder.com.
Anika Bowie wins Ward 1 race, securing St. Paul's first all-female city council.
Hennepin County Chief Judge Todd Barnette was sworn in as Minneapolis' new Public Safety Commissioner, and will focus on a...
'How can these people who are so disconnected make policies about people that they don't know anything about?'
When I spoke to residents, most of them renters, most have an issue with our safety, with health and mental...
The Twin Cities Film Festival is in its 14th year, showcasing films from Hollywood to local creators.
Protests continue to take place across the Twin Cities calling for a ceasefire and aid for Palestinians in Gaza.
Rep. Ilhan Omar proposed the bill during the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference in late September, where she believed...
'The level of food insecurity today on the map in the majority of the area is between crisis and emergency...
The “Renaissance Fire'' exhibit was organized as a celebration of lighting the torch to systematic oppression.
St. Paul residents will be able to approve tax increases to fund childcare services at the ballot box in 2024,...
'You can have a million discussions with the community and still fail to address basic policy issues.'
The second annual “Live Your Healthy Lyfe” event took place last weekend putting the topic of health and wellness on...
'When people fit into the fabric of society, they succeed in education. They succeed in work. They succeed in business.'
'We created a space for us, a space where we, as a collective African diaspora, learn the culture that we...
The ninth annual Little Africa Festival takes place on Aug. 6 in Hamline Park in St. Paul.
Black women make up 40 percent of domestic violence victims despite being 7 percent of the state population.
Residents of North Minneapolis’s Ward 5 gathered for a public safety town hall and debate between City Councilmember Jeremiah Ellison and...
'There isn’t a hierarchy and all good ideas are welcome.'
'I had read about this thing that he was doing around guaranteed income and it was just amazing,'
'We see other Somalians taking risks—it's like, if that brother or that sister could do it, so can I.'
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