Ibrahim Hirsi
@iHirsi
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PhD candidate in history at UMN.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined December 2011
I had the opportunity to attend a presentation titled 'The First Somali Diaspora: A Transnational History of Migration, Race, and Resistance' by Ibrahim Hirsi, a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. It offered unique insights into Somali history from the 1900s @iHirsi
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Talking @UMNHistory with PhD candidate @iHirsi yesterday at Ford W. and Amy Bell Room in the James Ford Bell Library. #umncla #umnproud
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Thanks for making this happen, Garaad. Enjoyed hanging out with the kids.
It takes village to raise a child! Thanks to our community volunteers for the first annual ‘Achieving My Potential’ (AMP) career event for 11th & 12th-grade students today @AchieveTC @MPS_Edison
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It was great to see you, Abdul.
Invited to Edison HS 1st annual Achieving My Potential(AMP)event 4 BIPOC Students in grades 11 & 12. Students chatted with many professionals who look like them.Thx @AchieveTC, @mps_Edison & @APGaraad for the fantastic event.On the side, met friends Abdi Bile,@iHirsi @fm_warsame
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Putting out the welcome mat for white Christians—while slamming the door in the faces of other migrants—is an American tradition. https://t.co/WNRFUBcfz3 by David Nasaw
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Putting out the welcome mat for white Christians—while slamming the door in the faces of other migrants—is an American tradition.
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Thanks for a great seminar and symposium, @LieslMOlson. I learned so much from you and the fantastic group of scholars you brought together.
Huge thanks to these excellent presenters yesterday at our symposium on ‘the archive’ @NewberryLibrary. So much inspiring activism being done with and through archives. Shout outs to my colleagues Emily Altman & @fay_hale who make these conversations possible!!
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Andy edited me between 2014 and 2018. He changed the way I thought about journalism and showed me how to **truly** go beyond the headlines to bring readers meaningful stories. Congrats on a great run, AP!
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Looking forward to watching this, @newshourfred. Folks, this is airing NOW on PBS @NewsHour.
Our @UnderTold story, "Becoming Black," on the emerging identity among Minnesota's African immigrants and their growing solidarity with the "historic" African American community is on today's @NewsHour. Will post link here post broadcast @UofStThomasMN @SahanJournal @IHirsi
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Warsan Shire’s Portraits of Somalis in Exile https://t.co/1M5AocuwS1 via @NewYorker
newyorker.com
The poet’s new collection melds verse and reportage to capture voices of the Somali diaspora.
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Thank you @SahanJournal for this thorough write-up of The ILC’s latest research report! #ImmigrantsAreEssential in Minnesota, especially in a public health crisis. We need to do more to recognize their contributions. @IHirsi @mukhtaryare
https://t.co/WMgvS6l6ab
sahanjournal.com
Minnesota’s immigrants and refugees fill “essential” jobs in construction, agriculture, manufacturing, and more. In a new report, they shared their stories about working on the front lines of the...
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Somali Americans have a lot of pressing questions about family problems, substance abuse, mental illness, homelessness, and other issues. At Mohamed Shuayb’s St. Anthony-based nonprofit, academics and experts try to provide answers. https://t.co/hVKcsHaZcA by @IHirsi
sahanjournal.com
Mohamed Shuayb says that as refugees, many Somali Americans have long lived in survival mode. Now a host of long-suppressed personal problems are rising to the surface.
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This is happening TODAY at 4pm CST. Register if you haven't already.
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Tiya Miles writes history but she reads everything https://t.co/GZ3M7p1QuQ via @BostonGlobe
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The author tracks the painful history of a family and of a nation through one handmade cloth bag in “All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, A Black Family Keepsake.” The book is a...
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A great piece about Homer Smith, a Black writer who studied journalism at the U, worked for @mndailynews, and traveled around the world in search of a place he could call home. Thanks, @willpjones3, for bringing Smith to my attention. By @Jack_ElHai.
minnesotaalumni.org
Mystery sorrounds the life of alumnus Homer Smith, who spent decades on an international odyssey to find a freedom in a place he could call home.
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A Veteran Journalist Finds Himself the Center of the Story https://t.co/zfIB1z6v7Q "As [@RaySuarezNews] discovered, if you lose one job late in your career, the next one will both take longer to find, and not last as long as the ones earlier in your working life."
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How did Ray Suarez end up jobless and worrying about how he was going to pay his dental bills?
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US immigration officials continue to round up and deport Haitian asylum seekers—the same way they rounded up and deported the Haitian asylum seekers of 60 years ago.
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Recent images of Border Patrol agents chasing down Haitians have sparked outrage, but the US has been rounding up, detaining, and deporting asylum seekers from Haiti for decades.
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“it can safely be said that the system of detention & deportation which has gone so big over these decades began as an effort to criminalize asylum seeking by Haitian people. So there’s an unforgivable Blackness about Haiti.” @BAJItweet director to @IHirsi
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Recent images of Border Patrol agents chasing down Haitians have sparked outrage, but the US has been rounding up, detaining, and deporting asylum seekers from Haiti for decades.
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