Somali
Phillips Community Center
Unique to Phillips unlike any other recreation center in the Minneapolis Park System, the Community Center houses five tenants, each providing their own services to the community. PCC tenants include Ventura Village/A Partnership of Diabetics (A-POD), Waite House (currently under construction), Running Wolf Fitness Center, Minneapolis Swims and Somali-American Communities.
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Cab drivers fired at protest over Airport Taxi fare cut
Updated January 18 at 6:30 p.m. (see bottom)MORE »
Banks block Somali financial lifeline, Minnesotans protest
“Peoples’ lives are at stake. People are dying,” said a young Somali to a crowd gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol. State Senator Jeff Hayden agreed, “This is an injustice. This is a crime.”MORE »
Sadik Warfa and Mahamud Noor on recent elections
In a special election this week in state Senate district 59 in Minneapolis, Kari Dziedzic won the competition between 5 DFL’ers to face a Republican opponent in January. She got 32% of the vote.MORE »
Hawala connection severed for Minnesota Somalis
Somali people in Minnesota who send money to east Africa are concerned that the method they use to transfer funds will soon shut down.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Tribute: Melissa Krull, embattled School Superintendent
Recently retired Eden Prairie Schools Superintendent Melissa Krull was honored by scores of parents and professional colleagues on Saturday October 15th for her support of educational equity and integration. A small band of vocal parents -- The Braxton Bullies -- have opposed the EP School district's re-alignment of grade school districts and other reforms.MORE »
Riverside Plaza -- history in the (re)making
Of all the landmarks in Minneapolis—from the Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture to Minnehaha Falls, the Stone Arch Bridge or the Basilica of St. Mary—few are as poorly understood or generate as much debate as Riverside Plaza. Encompassing several city blocks in the Cedar-Riverside area, Riverside Plaza is a set of high-rise residential towers, built in the early 1970s, that has created its own distinct micro-community of several thousand residents within its walls. Many know the area to be the center of the Somali and East African community in Minnesota, but what is often lost is an understanding of that community—and this place—within the broader history of Minneapolis. MORE »
Somali community faces ongoing tax issues
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