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Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott faces biggest test yet A Liberian immigrant who moved to Minnesota at age 11, Elliott has used his pulpit to speak in support of racial equity reforms on several fronts.  April 15, 2021 — 7:41pm Text size Copy shortlink: Mike Elliott was elected Brooklyn Center's first Black mayor in 2018, swept into office as a charismatic change candidate who intimately understood one of Minnesota's most diverse cities and could transform it, as his campaign literature said, from "stagnant status quo to a vibr...

Making the Case for Humane & Social Entrepreneurship Making the Case for Humane & Social Entrepreneurship Beyond the staggering tragedy that is the death and illness of thousands of people the world over, the COVID-19 pandemic has also brought unprecedented economic disorder, decimating economies, and the livelihoods of citizens in rich and poor nations alike. The International Trade Centre projected that, globally, one in every five micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) will go bankrupt in 2020—an alarming number considering that, in Africa, this category of business provides nearly...

New program will train Black residents to be political candidates Will begin accepting applications on Jan. 22 January 11, 2021 | 10:28 pm January 12, 2021 Black residents in Montgomery County have a new training program to help then run for public office. The nonpartisan program, called Rise and Run, will educate and prepare Black residents for politics. The program is connected to the nonprofit Council for Advocacy and Policy Solutions (CAPS). Kelly Leonard, an advisory board member for CAPS, said in a phone interview Monday afternoon that the idea for the program came to her in October as...

Grandfather -- >> great grandfather was president, was not as nativist as the democratic party in many instances, this obviously frustrates you quite a bit. >> quite a bit. i also hate it when my husband is right about things because he threw nails, this is a party -- this is a situation this is a moment in our country where we have to put our country above our party and above partisanship. as a republican, i just, as much as i would want the republican party better, i would want the president to sound better. you have to call it out as a republican, this is not american. and it this doesn't r...

>> when fingerprint results came in, the case took a new turn. there was an african man at the scene of the crime, but it wasn't patrick lumumba. >> if you're an immigrant, you have that to check in once a year with the police, i believe. you are considered a guest. and the fingerprints are known to them. they happen to be on file in the police station. they belong to a man named rudy guede, an african immigrant's son. >> rudy guede was a drifter, originally from the ivory coast. he partied on the periphery of student life and was suspected of several recent crimes around perugia. >> rudy had ...