Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will rally his supporters in the Twin Cities on Saturday, Feb. 2, three days before Minnesota's precinct caucuses. The rally will take place at the Target Center - 600 First Avenue North Minneapolis. Doors open: 1:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public but tickets are required. Sign up at http://mn.barackobama.com/minneapolis. Tickets will also be available at the ticket distribution locations beginning Thursday, January 31st.

“…Down Albert Street, the main thoroughfare in Belize City, the ‘punta’ sounds of Andy Palacio and Chico Ramos can be heard rocking the streets.” (Women of Belize: Gender and Change in Central America, p. 34).

Keesha Gaskins, League of Women Voters of Minnesota Executive Director, and Cassandra Ward-Brown, AKA Day at the Capitol organizer, recently discussed the importance of civic engagement on the Tuesday, Jan. 22 segment of "Conversations with Al McFarlane."

On Sunday, January 27 at 2:00 p.m., the Minneapolis Urban League, the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota and Jewish Community Action, with the support of many other community-based organizations, will collaborate on an unusual, exciting and historic project - the staged reading of the first act of a new play, "Tap the Leopard." Written by Kia Corthron, whose work has been performed on Minneapolis stages from the Children's Theater Company to the Pillsbury House Theater, "Tap the Leopard" explores the interwoven aspect of the histories of African Americans and Liberians.

A crowd of fifty-plus people crowded into a meeting room at Hasley Hall at the Hubert H Humphrey Metrodome to hear and voice their opinions about the fate of the Minnesota Vikings stadium.