'No Words Can Describe What He Meant To Me': Rep. Ilhan Omar's Father Dies From COVID-19 Complications
Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar announced Monday night that her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, has passed away from complications of COVID-19.
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Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar announced Monday night that her father, Nur Omar Mohamed, has passed away from complications of COVID-19.
The first LGBT rights march happened in Loring Park in Minneapolis in June 1972. It would eventually evolve into the annual Twin Cities Pride Festival that now encompasses LGBTQ+, but this year Pride is going virtual.
The measures have some under sharp attack from Republican House members, and that is expected to also happen in the GOP-controlled Senate.
The court's 6-3 ruling extends the scope of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of sex, race, color, national origin and religion, to include LGBTQ people.
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is defending her message of dismantling the Minneapolis Police Department.
Hundreds of people participated in more protests Saturday in Minneapolis, decrying police brutality and calling for justice for victims of police violence.
The Minnesota Legislature's deep divide over police reform is again at center stage.
Judge Peter Cahill has been assigned to oversee the cases of all four former Minneapolis Police officers involved with George Floyd's death.
On Friday, Minnesota lawmakers will start debating big changes that could change police departments statewide.
On the first day of the special session, the Minnesota House of Representatives has approved millions of dollars in grants for small businesses.
A southern Minnesota representative is calling the Christopher Columbus toppling incident at the State Capitol a "lynching-like desecration of a statue."
Klobuchar was a prosecutor years ago in Hennepin County. During that period, more than two dozen people — mostly minorities — died during encounters with police.
Key Republican lawmakers in Minnesota said Friday that they'll block most of an ambitious effort by Democrats to remake policing in the state where George Floyd died and that they plan to approve only a limited set of police accountability measures.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says the COVID-19 pandemic is not over and on Friday extended the state's peacetime emergency through mid-July.
Keith Ellison has been a civil rights activist, a defense attorney, a cable-TV favorite, a rabble-rouser in Congress, a party operator and an occasional provocateur on Twitter.
