Sahan Journal

Sahan Journal is a unique, independent nonprofit digital newsroom recognized as a 501(c)(3) organization. Our mission is to deliver genuine news coverage focused on immigrants and refugees in Minnesota. We strive to highlight the challenges, achievements, and journeys of Minnesota's new American communities, whose narratives are frequently missed by conventional media outlets. As Minnesota's diversity grows, Sahan is committed to sharing the experiences of these immigrant populations in a thoughtful and respectful manner.

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Travel Ban Archives

4 days ago | sahanjournal.com | Katelyn Vue |Hibah Ansari |Mohamed Ibrahim |Monika Pronczuk

The new travel ban impacts people from Somalia, Eritrea, Myanmar, Laos, Afghanistan, and other countries. Join Sahan Journal for a live conversation, with expert panelists who can answer your questions.
Kinfolx’ envisions a future led by BIPOC and queer folks

1 week ago | sahanjournal.com | Myah Goff |Alberto Gomez

Jazz musicians, soul line dancers, ceramic figurines and a queer council take over the Twin Cities arts scene this weekend. The Twin Cities Jazz Festival will return for its 27th year, bringing more than 100 local and national musicians to venues across the metro. One artist in St. Paul will piece together Mexican folk traditions through ceramics and quilts, while another will host a soul line dance party at Minnehaha Falls.
South Minneapolis festival celebrates art, power of family

1 week ago | sahanjournal.com | Shubhanjana Das |Trisha Collopy

The intersection of Minnehaha Avenue and E. Lake Street in Minneapolis came alive with drum circles, food trucks, and art at Soul of the Southside’s Juneteenth celebration on Thursday — one of several celebrations across the Twin Cities.
UMN drops 2025 Juneteenth block party due to ‘budget constraints’

1 week ago | sahanjournal.com | Feven Gerezgiher |Alberto Gomez

With little fanfare, the University of Minnesota decided against hosting a Juneteenth celebration this year. Since 2022, the U has held an annual block party outside its Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center in north Minneapolis. The event was “the brainchild” of Black faculty, staff and students at the University of Minnesota, according to a U news release.
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1 week ago | sahanjournal.com | Feven Gerezgiher |Elizabeth Shockman

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Visa spat, travel ban add worry for Minn. Sudanese community

1 week ago | sahanjournal.com | Binta Kanteh |Alberto Gomez

Over the phone, across an ocean, Angok Gai tries to help his wife raise their two daughters. Gai, a U.S. citizen, lives and works in the Twin Cities. His wife and daughters are in Uganda, where they moved from South Sudan so the girls could attend school. “South Sudan is not secure, that’s why I moved them to Uganda. They are living in Uganda now because I need my kids to go to school,” Gai said.
No Kings rally at Minnesota Capitol draws more than 25,000

1 week ago | sahanjournal.com | Shubhanjana Das |Trisha Collopy

A day that was meant to be celebratory turned somber on Saturday, when news broke of shootings targeting two Minnesota lawmakers in their homes. That didn’t keep tens of thousands of people from gathering at the Minnesota Capitol to participate in a No Kings rally, part of a nationwide series of protests coordinated by labor and pro-democracy groups.
Former house speaker, husband killed in political shootings

1 week ago | sahanjournal.com | Trisha Collopy

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in a politically motivated assassination, and a second lawmaker and his wife were shot and wounded. Authorities were actively searching for a suspect hours after the targeted killings. “We must all, in Minnesota and across the country, stand against all forms of political violence,” Walz said at a press conference Saturday.
New street dance festival brings cyphers, dance battles to St. Paul

2 weeks ago | sahanjournal.com | Myah Goff |Alberto Gomez

In the Twin Cities art scene this weekend, a dance festival in St. Paul celebrates Minnesota’s hip-hop legacy, spotlighting women artists, choreographers and krump dancers. Over on Rice Street, the Asian Street Food Night Market brings together more than 35 vendors alongside emerging Asian musicians and dance troupes. In Minneapolis, the Somali Museum launches its first summer festival with art workshops and performances by Somali artists on Lake Street.
Dakota-led nonprofit prepares for land restoration, cultural education at St. Anthony Falls.

2 weeks ago | sahanjournal.com | Andrew Hazzard

Centuries before European-Americans engineered St. Anthony Falls along the Mississippi River to power flour and timber empires, Dakota people came there for ceremonies. The falls, Owámniyomni in Dakota, stretched wide into what is now downtown Minneapolis and below them lay Spirit Island, a large slab of limestone covered with trees and visited by Dakota people from across the region.