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Congresswoman Ilhan Omar announces support for President Biden’s reelection
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Wednesday said she will support President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, after the president announced on Tuesday that he is running...
Ilhan Omar embarks on new path no longer defined by ‘firsts’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was winding up for a speech at a Minnesota clean energy facility when he spotted a lawmaker in...
Republicans remove only African-born member of Congress from Foreign Affairs Committee
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who got the job last month after the longest speaker’s election in American history since the eve of the Civil...
President Hassan of Somalia meets diaspora in Minnesota, lays out roadmap...
Hours after attending the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington hosted by President Biden, Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addressed a near capacity crowd of...
Ilhan Omar wins party endorsement for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District
The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) has once again endorsed Rep. Ilhan Omar as she seeks re-election to represent Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District.
Omar and former Minneapolis...
Rep. Ilhan Omar and Congressional Black Caucus pushing for shift in...
It is no secret that during the four years prior to the election of President Joseph R. Biden,
African countries did not have the best...
Rep. Ilhan Omar joins chorus of “Jacob Must Go”
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has become the latest high profile elected Minnesota official to call on Minneapolis voters to get rid of current Mayor Jacob...
Congresswoman Omar advances $14 million in funding for community projects in...
Fire safety in public housing in Minneapolis might be a reality soon as will bike parks in Brooklyn Center as a result of Congresswoman...
Rep. Ilhan Omar recounts terror in U.S. Capitol, announces plan to...
President Donald J. Trump spent much of 2020 demonizing Rep. Ilhan Omar and ridiculing Somalia, the Minnesota congresswoman’s country of origin, for being a...
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...
A mixed bag for African immigrant candidates in Minnesota races
The African immigrant community's bid to expand its share of elected officials in the state had some bright spots and disappointing losses in equal...