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		<title>Minority Businesses Shut Out of Stimulus Loans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Aaron Glantz
Loans handed out to struggling small businesses as part of President Barack Obama&#8217;s stimulus package have largely shut out minority businesses &#8212; especially those owned by Blacks and Latinos &#8212; according to data provided by the federal government&#8217;s Small Business Administration (SBA) to New America Media (NAM).
On June 15, the SBA, using money [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minneafrica.wordpress.com&blog=5046379&post=2186&subd=minneafrica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africa&#8217;s Media Explosion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Muigai is concerned that two years after violence broke out in Kenya following disputed elections, Kenyans have done little to avoid a repeat in the 2012 elections. Muigai said Kenyans are not having in-depth discussions about what happened.
“Post-election violence has been the hardest topic to discuss,” Muigai said. “A lot of Kenyans do not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minneafrica.wordpress.com&blog=5046379&post=2127&subd=minneafrica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somali Woman&#8217;s Illness and A Family&#8217;s Quest for Healing</title>
		<link>http://minneafrica.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/somali-womans-illness-and-a-familys-quest-for-healing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Grostephan
New America MediaST.CLOUD, Minn. &#8212; Samira Iman was missing for nearly two years. The 31-year-old Somali didn&#8217;t run away. She wasn&#8217;t kidnapped. She didn&#8217;t go to Africa to fight in Somalia&#8217;s decades-old civil war. She was living in St. Cloud, Minn., in a group home for the mentally ill. But Samira&#8217;s family lost track [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minneafrica.wordpress.com&blog=5046379&post=2060&subd=minneafrica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Helping victims of torture, from Minnesota to the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jaclyn Evert			, TC Daily Planet
From counseling torture victims in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to fixing bikes for political refugees in Minneapolis, the Center for Victims of Torture provides healing services that reach around the world.
CVT provides free mental health treatment to victims of politically motivated torture in centers and partnership programs in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minneafrica.wordpress.com&blog=5046379&post=2055&subd=minneafrica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conference on African Intellectuals in the West</title>
		<link>http://minneafrica.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/african-intellectuals-in-the-west-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based in Minnesota, Africa Today would best be described as an African think tank. Every month, the group organizers topics surrounding Africans in the Diaspora and the content.
This month&#8217;s discussion is on the impact African intellectuals in the West impact their home countries.
Are African Intellectuals in the West a benefit to the rest of Africa? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minneafrica.wordpress.com&blog=5046379&post=2041&subd=minneafrica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africans Want Access to Corporate Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Issa Mansaray for Mshale
Martin Mohamed walks in and out of several stores at Karmel Mall, an eight year old mall in South Minneapolis that hosts about 300 Somali stores.
Mohamed is the chairman of the African Chamber of Commerce (ACC). He knows most of the shop owners and calls everyone he meets by name. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minneafrica.wordpress.com&blog=5046379&post=1984&subd=minneafrica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish and Somali-American Dialogue this Saturday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Dear Friends,
I&#8217;m writing to invite you to an event that links two communities that have more in common with each other than you might think. The Swedish and Somali American Dialogue this Saturday, April 18, 2009 will explore such questions as: What does it mean to be an American?, How can I be both Swedish and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minneafrica.wordpress.com&blog=5046379&post=1903&subd=minneafrica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amina Saleh builds bridges</title>
		<link>http://minneafrica.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/amina-saleh-builds-bridges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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By Nathanial Minor, TC DAILY PLANET
She survived Somali’s civil war, spent years in a Kenyan refugee camp and is a single mother in a strange country, but Amina Saleh’s biggest challenge is getting people to talk to each other.
As a community organizer, Saleh works for a Somali population that often finds itself at odds with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minneafrica.wordpress.com&blog=5046379&post=1828&subd=minneafrica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somali hip-hop: &#8220;It&#8217;s a culture. It&#8217;s a people&#8217;s life.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://minneafrica.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/somali-hip-hop-its-a-culture-its-a-peoples-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
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BY JUSTIN SCHELL	 , TC DAILY PLANET
On New Year’s Eve, hundreds of Somali youth packed one of the ballrooms at the Minneapolis Convention Center. There were performers from Minneapolis, Rochester, Seattle, and even as far away as London—places that have all developed substantial Somali populations both before and since the Somali Civil War, which began in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minneafrica.wordpress.com&blog=5046379&post=1802&subd=minneafrica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immigrant workers struggle to support families back home</title>
		<link>http://minneafrica.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/immigrant-workers-struggle-to-support-families-back-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jaclyn Evert   TC DAILY PLANET
Semenyo Ahli gathers stray carts in the Wal-Mart parking lot on University Avenue in St. Paul. He came to the United States four years ago for economic opportunity and to attend college to become a registered nurse. Despite being qualified to work as a nursing assistant, Ahli has been unsuccessful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=minneafrica.wordpress.com&blog=5046379&post=1779&subd=minneafrica&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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