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Brooklyn Park prepares to elect its first Black mayor in November

By Tom Gitaa Mshale May 31 was the deadline for candidates to file for elected city, county, statewide office as well as congressional races for the 2022 election cycle.

In Brooklyn Park, voters will be choosing a new mayor and a councilmember for each of the three districts, East, West and Central.

Each district has two councilmembers serving staggered terms.

Three candidates have filed to run for mayor and incumbent Lisa Jacobson is not one of them. Jacobson announced in early May that she was “retiring from politics after six years on the City Council to focus on my family, my career, and my business.”

The three that have filed are Boyd Morson, Wynfred Russell and Hollies Winston. Their filing sets the stage for the election of the city’s first Black mayor. Since more than two candidates filed, an August 9 primary is necessary to narrow the field to two for the November 8 general election.

Winston lost by two votes to incumbent Jacobson in the August 2021 special election. Morson and Russell were candidates in the primary

(L to R): Boyd Morson, Wynfred Russell and Hollies Winston have filed to run for Mayor of Brooklyn Park in the 2022 election. The three will have to go through an August 9 primary election to determine the two that will proceed to the November 8 general election.

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election leading to that August 2021 special election, where they received 348 and 291 votes respectively, against Jacobson’s 1,291 and Winston’s 1,854.

Morson is one of two current councilmembers representing the Central District. The City Council on March 7 censured him for violating the city’s “respectful workplace policy” and the elected officials code of conduct policy.

If Morson becomes mayor it will trigger a special election to fill his council seat.

Russell is one of two councilmembers representing the West District and his term will be up following the

November election. His running for mayor means his is an open seat and will not trigger a special election should he become mayor. His election to the City Council in 2018 made him the first Liberian American to serve on the Brooklyn Park City Council.

For the City Council races, there will be no primary election in the East District as only two candidates filed. The two, Indred Alexander and Christian Eriksen, will go straight to the November 8 election. Eriksen previously ran unsuccessfully in the Central District but his home has been redistricted into the East District.

The Central District has attracted for candidates Latrina Caldwell, Warren Carey, Nichole Klonowski and Teshite Wako. They are bidding to fill the open seat currently held by Tonja West-Hafner who is now in the West District following redistricting. West-Hafner is now running in the West District where she will battle it out with four other candidates; Yelena Kurdyumova, Henry Momanyi, Wayland Richards and Maria Tran.

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Guest Commentary by Kara James

Black women are still dying from childbirth in 2022. Why? Black women in Los Angeles County are four times more likely to die because of pregnancy and its complications than women of any other race. In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Black mothers are dying from preventable causes at rates that continue to rise.

This location also serves as the flagship for the Black Health Initiative, an agency-wide program designed to improve the overall well-being of our communities by empowering us to advocate for ourselves toward better health outcomes.

With all the medical and technological advancements that have been made over the years, you’d think that the topic of maternal health would be low on the list of health inequities that impact the African American community. But it’s not.

Working to improve Black maternal health

Unacceptably, poor maternal health outcomes are a leading cause of death of Black women, and for generations have continuously burdened our women through no fault of our own. These outcomes are largely due to institutional racism.

The alarming number of deaths of Black women during childbirth and postpartum continue in 2022. We need real, systemic change that provides access to health care in environments where we live and work, and that is more equitable and responsive to our needs. Only then, will Black women be able to achieve optimal health equality.

Wanting better for us as Black women

The Black Health Initiative is working to improve Black maternal health by providing coaching to address chronic conditions before, during, and after pregnancy, acknowledging underlying social needs that impact health, and connecting patients to resources and programs needed to flourish.

As a nurse practitioner with PPLA, I am proud to be a part of a team that understands why delivering patient-centered reproductive and sexual health care with dignity and respect is critical to improving maternal health and addressing the disparities that Black women face.

The Inglewood Health Center reinforces PPLA’s commitment to providing our community with the resources needed to combat health inequities by offering prenatal care, doula services, behavioral health services, contraceptive counseling, birth control, and more.

As a Black mother, activist, and nurse practitioner, I want better for us! We are Queens and deserve to live as such. But before we can do better, we need to know better. And that starts with identifying why the pregnancy-related mortality rate for Black women is so high.

For services not offered at the health center, patients are referred to additional care that is accessible, culturally specific, and supports overall health and wellbeing.

Racism, and the lack of access to and knowledge of resources, plays a huge role in contributing to persistent health care inequities in our community. When the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that the pregnancy-related mortality rate for Black women who graduated from college was five times as high as white women with similar education, it’s also clear that status and education doesn’t matter.

I urge you to share this information with the women in your life. I want Black women to feel comfortable knowing there are individuals that care about them and their unborn child, and they have a right to feel safe and receive the best care available to all women.

To address the lack of access to and knowledge of resources in our community, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles (PPLA) is meeting our women where we live, work, and play by bringing services to us at our newest Inglewood Health Center.

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Kara James is a nurse practitioner with Planned Parenthood Los Angeles. She wrote this for the Black Voice News where it first appeared

Mayor from Pg. 2 a primary on August 9 to narrow the field to two for each district that will proceed to the November 8 general election.

Early voting June 24: That is the date early voting via mail or in person begins for the August 9 primary where needed. It will go through August 8.

July 19: This is the date you need to register as a voter in advance to save you time on the August 9 Primary Election Day. Otherwise, you can register on August 9 at your voting place.

Your polling place might have changed Due to redistricting following the 2020 Census, your polling place and precinct might have changed. Brooklyn Park City Clerk Devin Montero says voters should use the Minnesota Secretary of State website to determine where to vote. The link is: https://pollfinder.sos.state.mn.us/ More info: Visit the City of Brooklyn Park Elections page at BrooklynPark.org and follow the elections tab.

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Africa: Dramatic drop forecast in COVID deaths, but no time to ‘sit back and relax’ UN News Service

COVID-19 deaths in Africa are forecast to decrease by 94 per cent this year compared to last year the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday (June 1).

That’s down from a “catastrophically high” average of 970 fatalities each day last year to around 60 a day by the end of 2022.

“The low number of deaths expected this year is a huge achievement for the region and a testament to the efforts of countries and partners,” WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti told journalists at a virtual press conference.

Despite the new WHO modelling projection compared with last year – the pandemic’s most lethal – actual cases are estimated to drop by a little over a quarter this year.

“However, the job is not yet done.

Every time we sit back and relax, COVID19 flares up again,” she cautioned.

The analysis, which was published this week in the Lancet Global Health scientific journal, finds that while the region reported 113,102 deaths through official channels last year, about one in three were missed, driving the actual number of deaths up to a projected 350,000.

A woman shows her COVID-19 vaccine card alongside her sisters in Kano, Nigeria.

The modelling suggests that if current variants and transmission dynamics remain constant, around 23,000 people are expected to die by the end of this year.

“The threat of new variants remains real, and we need to be ready to cope with this ever-present danger,” cautioned Dr. Moeti.

However, a variant that is 200 per cent more lethal, would cause an increase in deaths to more than 70,000.

The study’s findings infer that only one in 71 COVID-19 cases in Africa have been recorded and projects

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166. 2 million infections this year compared with the estimated 227.5 million that occurred in 2021.

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COVID-19 from Pg. 4 natural immunity from previous infections that, while not preventing re-infections, stop severe forms of the disease leading to death.

The analysis estimates that COVID-19 was the seventh major cause of death in Africa last year, just below malaria.

The significant increase last year was due to the more infectious and severe Delta variant.

“We have learnt many lessons on how to stay a step ahead of the virus,” said Dr. Moeti.

As the pandemic persists, WHO maintained that it is crucial to ramp up comprehensive healthcare services, including preventive measures, treatment and vaccination for vulnerable populations.

Targeted surveillance will also be critical to monitor hospitalization, the burden of comorbidities and the emergence of new variants.

“Now is the time to refine our response and identify populations most at-risk of COVID19,” said the WHO official.

“Countries must intensify efforts to conduct a targeted response that provides the most vulnerable people with the health services they need, including COVID-19 vaccines and effective treatment.”

COVID-19 deaths have been uneven across the African region.

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countries and those in the South African Development Community (SADC) have around double the mortality rates than that of lower and lower-middle-income countries in Africa’s other economic regions.

The analysis shows that the variation in the number of deaths were driven by biological and physical factors – primarily comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, HIV, and obesity – that increase the severity and risk of mortality in COVID-19 patients.

“The divergent death rates between countries in the region emphasize the need for tailored responses,” said Dr. Moeti. “As the pandemic persists, what is clear is that our actions need to keep pace with what remains an evolving and complex situation”.

Omicron offers ‘limited protection’ against reinfection New data relating to the pandemic globally, released by WHO on Thursday, suggests that people who’ve been infected with the Omicron variant can expect “limited protection” against catching it again.

Latest evidence also suggests that immunity against severe COVID illness is more robust among those who’ve been infected by the coronavirus and vaccinated against it, than it is for people who’ve only been infected, or only been jabbed.

The priority for national health agencies should be to vaccinate all adults, focusing on healthcare workers, people with low immunity and older persons, WHO said.

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Kellace McDaniel is the new Brooklyn Center police chief

By Tom Gitaa Mshale Hiring from among its own residents, Brooklyn Center has selected 25-year law enforcement veteran Kellace McDaniel as the city’s next chief of police, according to a news release from the city.

McDaniel succeeds Interim Police Chief Tony Gruenig who has been leading the department since April 2021, when then Chief Tim Gannon resigned following the killing of Daunte Wright by one of its officers, Kim Potter. Potter was convicted of manslaughter on February.

“I’m excited to introduce Kellace McDaniel to the Brooklyn Center community as he has our confidence and support in this important role,” said City Manager Dr. Reginald Edwards. “I want to give a heartfelt thank you to the community members, stakeholders and staff who helped us reach this important decision for our community and all of the qualified candidates for their consideration.”

Edwards in his statement also thanked Gruening for leading the department “through one, if not its most challenging times.”

McDaniel, who has a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice Studies from St. Cloud State University and a minor in Human Relations, currently serves as

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Kellace McDaniel has been named the new police chief for the City of Brooklyn Center.

He will start on June 27, 2022.

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a lieutenant with the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office where he supervises 57 deputies. He has also provided security to two presidential inaugurations.

McDaniel is a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) LEEDA (208th) Supervisor Leadership Institute for Law Enforcement Executives.

His first day as police chief will be June 27.

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Minneapolis marks 2nd anniversary of George Floyd’s killing Last week marked the second anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin. Mshale reporter Panashe Matemba-Mutasa compiled this photo essay from the George Floyd Rise Remember celebration, which took place in Minneapolis at 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, where Floyd was killed.

A George Floyd Mural is located on the side of Cup Foods (CQ), the convenience store located on 38th Street and Chicago Avenue (CQ) where a clerk called the cops on Floyd for trying to pay with a counterfeit $20 bill.

Cup Foods the store outside of which Floyd was murdered, is decorated with flowers, posters, and handmade gifts.

The George Floyd Square Memorial features a Black Lives Matter fist and the Pan-African flag.

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(Left photo) Toshira Garraway addresses the crowd at the annual George Floyd Rise and Remember celebration on 38th street and Chicago Avenue in Minneapolis. “We know that prior to George Floyd’s death, there have been many senseless murders of Black men here in Minnesota. I lost my fiancé [Justin Teigen] to St. Paul police in 2009. As family members of these lost loved ones, we all share a unique pain, but today we are here to celebrate their lives.” (Right photo) Kenny Foote (right) with friends Joe Bradford (center) and Mike Prison. Foote is a community member who is passionate about addressing issues of racism in the area. “I’m here in remembrance because racism is rampant in our community. I just want everyone to be equal no matter the color of their skin or where they came from,” Foote said.

(Left photo) Melissa Straton (right) with her friend Alicia Judy. “I’m here because this is something that people need to honor. As a white female I feel it’s important for me to be here as an ally,” Judy said. (Right photo) The community observes performance by Heart and Soul Drum Academy, a nonprofit that offers Djembe hand drum classes to children ages 3-17 in St. Paul’s Rondo Community.

(Left photo) Lakesia Aycock is a friend of the family of Amir Locke, the 22-year-old killed by Minneapolis Police SWAT team officers during a pre-dawn no-knock raid on Feb. 2. Being so close to the family, Aycock said the issue of police brutality is personal. She is now a community leader at Divine Legacy, which offers adult rehabilitative mental health services. “That time [of George Floyd’s death] was so dark for all of us. We all felt it. People’s mental health took a toll. I have been offering healing and therapy sessions for those who need it.”On the right, Members of Brass Solidarity, a street music project that allows brass and percussion players to freely join based on interest, plays in the streets in George Floyd Square.

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Grain supply tops Putin-African Union head talks agenda as war in Ukraine continues Asscociated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted the chairman of the African Union, Senegal’s President Macky Sall on Friday for talks expected to focus on how to get grain supplies stuck amid the fighting in Ukraine moving again.

African countries imported 44% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine between 2018 and 2020, according to U.N. figures, and wheat prices have soared around 45% as a result of the supply disruption, according to the African Development Bank.

“Africa has no control over production or logistics chains and is totally at the mercy of the situation,” Sall said recently.

Russia, the world’s largest wheat exporter, has urged the West to lift sanctions imposed over its military action in Ukraine so that grain starts flowing freely to global markets. While food and fertilizer are exempt, sanctions have targeted Russian shipping and made international shipping companies reluctant to transport Russian cargoes.

According to the Kremlin, Putin told Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi during a call last week that Moscow “is ready to make a significant contribution to overcoming the food crisis through the export of grain and fertilizer on the condition that politically motivated restrictions imposed by the West are lifted.”

Britain last week accused Russia of “trying to hold the world to ransom” by demanding relief from Western sanctions to allow grain exports.

Putin hailed Russia’s warm ties with African nations in brief televised remarks at the start of his talks with Sall in Sochi, but didn’t mention grain exports.

On his part, Sall in his opening remarks sided with the Kremlin’s view that Western sanctions have exacerbated grain and fertilizer shortages, threatening global food security.

Ukraine is also one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil. Ukrainian authorities and the West have accused Russia of blocking Ukrainian ports to halt exports, endangering world food supplies. Russia has denied blocking Ukrainian ports and called on Ukraine to remove mines to allow safe shipping.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin would give Sall a “detailed explanation of its vision of the situation with Ukrainian grain,” and “explain again what’s going on there, who mined the ports, what is necessary to do to allow the grain flow to resume.” Peskov insisted again that Russia wasn’t blocking the ports.

The Russian military has proposed corridors to allow foreign ships to safely leave ports along the Black Sea. Ukraine has said it was ready to agree on safe corridors in principle but voiced concern

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left back to a camera, speaks greets African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, center, and Senegalese President and the chairman of the African Union Macky Sall during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Friday, June 3, 2022.

Photo: Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP

that Russia could use them to attack Odesa and other Ukrainian ports.

“The mines planted by the Ukrainian armed forces hinder the export of grain, nothing else,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at Friday’s briefing. “After the sea area is demined, we will be ready to ensure the safe export of grain, including escorting transport ships to the international waters of the Black Sea.” The supply chain issues brought on by the fighting in Ukraine come as large portions of Africa already were grappling with drought and other problems.

Senegal was one of 17 African nations that abstained from voting on the U.N. resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine. Sall said that during Friday’s meeting, he told Putin many African coun-

tries didn’t condemn Russia’s action in Ukraine despite what he described as strong pressure to do so.

The United Nations has warned that 18 million people are facing severe hunger in the Sahel, the part of Africa just below the Sahara Desert where farmers are facing their worst agricultural production in more than a decade. Another 13 million people face severe hunger in the Horn of Africa region as a result of a persistent drought.

With the conflict in Ukraine now in its fourth month, world leaders have ramped up calls for solutions. World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi OkonjoIweala said about 25 million tons of Ukrainian grain is in storage and another 25 million tons could be harvested next month.

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Bishop Mildred Hines, first AME Zion female bishop, dead at age 67

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service Bishop Mildred “Bonnie” Hines, the first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, has died at age 67.

“We are sad because we will miss her powerful preaching, her electrifying teaching, her dynamic leadership, and her loving spirit,” stated the board of bishops in a statement. “We are glad because she is free from her infirmities and is in the presence of her Lord, whom she served so faithfully.”

Hines, the 98th bishop of the AME Zion Church, died on Monday (May 23), the bishops’ statement said. She was the sole female bishop of the historically Black denomination that dates to 1796.

The Rev. George McKain, director of public affairs for the denomination, said Hines was known as an “unbelievable teacher” as well as a powerful preacher.

“She was our first female bishop, so against all the odds of the old system, she rose with a freshness and with a power single to none,” he said. “For her to be such a quiet yet powerful individual,

Bishop Mildred Hines of the AME Zion Church.

it was amazing that she was the one God chose to raise up as the example and the pioneer for women in ministry.”

She pastored Los Angeles First AME Zion Church before being elected as the first female bishop of the AME Zion Church in 2008. In 2013, she became the first woman to lead the board of bishops.

Hines served as the presiding prelate of a West African district and later was assigned to the U.S. district that includes churches in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and West Tennessee.

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vived.

She told the newspaper, located in a state where she once oversaw congregations after the death of another bishop, that she hoped her historic bishop’s role would be an inspiration for others.

“For myself, I’m honored and very humbled to be the first female to be elected,” she said of her denomination.

Most recently, she has overseen churches in South Carolina and Georgia.

She was also the chairperson of the board of trustees of Clinton College in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Clinton President Lester McCorn mourned the loss of Hines, who he said served on his school’s board for six years.

“She was a strong advocate for the College, advancing the Special Education Fund in each of the Annual Conferences, in support of scholarships for students,” he said in a statement. “A lover of sacred music, Bishop Hines became an avid supporter of the new choir and music program at Clinton.”

Hines told The Sun-Chronicle, an Attleboro, Massachusetts, newspaper, that she knew from age 16 she was meant to be a minister.

Once a buyer for Belk Department Stores, she said an illness forced her to leave the fashion world behind. “I bargained with God,” she said, saying she would follow divine guidance if she sur-

Bishop Mildred Hines of the AME Zion Church. Photo: Courtesy AME Zion Church

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Art & Entertainment

Highife to become UNESCO World Heritage? Supporters pushing for it

By Banning Eyre Afropop Worldwide In 2003, UNESCO produced its Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage, part of its mission to recognize and safeguard the world’s traditional cultures. Folkloric music was immediately included, but there were questions about whether or how popular music forms should be.

Professor John Collins of Ghana--a longtime contributor to and friend of Afropop Worldwide--proposed a three-generation rule. The idea was that if a genre remains essentially stable through three generations-some 60 to 75 years--then it should be eligible to be considered an intangible cultural heritage.

In the subsequent years, both reggae and Congolese music (rumba/ soukous/etc.) qualified. And now, many West African music professionals, including Collins, think it is time for highlife to join that esteemed club.

Collins has lived mostly in Ghana since 1968. He has performed with highlife bands, recorded and archived their music, written extensively on the genre as well as many other

aspects of West African music, and in short, been a tireless documenter and champion of highlife. His Bokoor African Popular Music Archives and Foundation in the outskirts of Accra is home to one of the richest sources of recordings and information about Ghanaian highlife in particular.

At a March, 2022, meeting of the Ghana Musicians Union, Folklore Board and Cultural Forum, Collins strongly advocated certifying highlife as a World Intangible Cultural Heritage, saying in part: “If the minimum three-generation criteria is used by UNESCO to determine their choice of another African popular music to be considered a cultural heritage, then an obvious one is highlife, as it goes back well over 100 years.

Although the word ‘highlife’ itself was coined in the 1920s, its Adaha and Osibisaba precursors played by Ghanaian brass band musicians and palmwine guitarists goes back 20-30 years earlier. In fact, highlife is West Africa’s oldest form of urban popular music.”

Collins is correct. Highlife predates Congolese rumba and continues to reverberate in music genres across the continent, not least the

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hope and expect to be an official announcement on this matter.

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