Posts by Abdi Aynte

As a new, unskilled immigrant from Congo, Kathy Komba was told that the only job she could do is to clean office buildings overnight. A friend of a friend hired her as a janitor in Minneapolis.

That was nine years ago. Then 25, Komba was satisfied with her biweekly paycheck that barely topped $400 — until [...]

The tiny huts, the small latrines and the white tents inside metal barricades looked startlingly familiar even though they were part of a replica of a refugee camp.

I felt a little jolt in my heart as I stood in line Thursday to get inside the “camp” set up in Loring Park in Minneapolis. This was [...]

When University of Minnesota workers ended their strike last week, the school came out victorious. Even so, union officials and state legislators are looking at ways to make the U more accountable to its lower-income workers.

Hundreds of clerical, technical and health care workers walked off the job Sept. 5 after their union turned down the [...]

Iran’s belligerent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a loser in most of his international appearances. But on Monday he garnered a rare victory at an unlikely venue: Columbia University in New York. He withstood a barrage of insults from that university’s president — his host– and, though apparently caught off guard, he held his head above [...]

When U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., made the comments that there are “too many mosques in this country,” he was immediately repudiated by many groups, including the Democratic National Committee.

But no one was more offended than Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. As the first Muslim in Congress, Ellison called the remarks “insulting.”

King’s remark, Ellison said, “cuts [...]

As an Iraqi-American, Sami Rasouli felt that adults in the two countries “failed to bring peace and stability.” So he and an American friend turned to the children of the two countries to open a dialogue about peace.

With the help of Tim Carlson, a retired teacher who taught English in Robbinsdale schools for 30 years, [...]

As an Iraqi-American, Sami Rasouli felt that adults in the two countries “failed to bring peace and stability.” So he and an American friend turned to the children of the two countries to open a dialogue about peace.

With the help of Tim Carlson, a retired teacher who taught English at Robbinsdale schools for 30 years, [...]

As an Iraqi-American, Sami Rasouli felt that adults in the two countries “failed to bring peace and stability.” So he and an American friend turned to the children of the two countries to open a dialogue about peace.

With the help of Tim Carlson, a retired teacher who taught English at Robbinsdale schools for 30 years, [...]

As an Iraqi-American, Sami Rasouli felt that adults in the two countries “failed to bring peace and stability.” So he and an American friend turned to the children of the two countries to open a dialogue about peace.

With the help of Tim Carlson, a retired teacher who taught English at Robbinsdale schools for 30 years, [...]

As an Iraqi-American, Sami Rasouli felt that adults in the two countries “failed to bring peace and stability.” So he and an American friend turned to the children of the two countries to open a dialogue about peace.

With the help of Tim Carlson, a retired teacher who taught English at Robbinsdale schools for 30 years, [...]