African American Leadership Forum Selects Adair Mosley as New Chief Executive Officer
[Minneapolis, MN-August 16, 2022]--African American Leadership Forum Twin Cities (AALF) announced today that its board of directors has unanimously selected Adair Mosley as the organization’s next Chief Executive Officer. Mosley, who currently serves as Pillsbury...
AALF Is Growing And Welcomes New Full Time Staff Members To Its Team
[MINNEAPOLIS—MAY 5, 2022] African American Leadership Forum Twin Cities is pleased to announce the following personnel moves and staff promotions strengthening its capacity in the functions of Administration, Amplification and Network Alignment. Ingrid Sabah joins the...
AALF Convenes Distinguished Panel On Public Safety And How To Keep Neighborhoods Safe
[MINNEAPOLIS – April 29, 2022]- One day after the Minnesota Department of Human Rights released its findings that the City of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police Department engaged in a “pattern or practice of race discrimination”, the African American Leadership...
African American Leadership Forum CEO Announces His Departure
[MINNEAPOLIS – APRIL 26, 2022] – African American Leadership Forum leader Marcus Owens, who steered the nonprofit through robust growth over the past four years, announced on Friday that his last day as CEO will be May 6. Owens will continue to serve AALF as an...
AALF Statement on Continued Threat to Public Safety
The threat to public safety in the Twin Cities from 2021 has spilled into the first seven weeks of 2022. A woman was shot and killed in St. Paul two days ago. In the last ten days, three people have been shot and killed in Minneapolis, including a sophomore...
Statement On The Shooting Death of Amir Locke
On February 2, 2022, 22-year-old Amir Locke was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer. He was not a suspect nor a person of interest. Amir was looking forward to a career in the music industry. Instead, Locke is the latest Black man in Minnesota killed by...
AALF Launches 2022 In Retreat-Mode
{MINNEAPOLIS-January 20, 2021}-The old adage goes “There is strength in numbers.” Let's add, "But we're even stronger with collective buy-in." That defined one of the themes that emerged during an organized retreat for the African American Leadership Forum that...
2021 Josie Johnson Fellows Near Graduation
{Minneapolis-October 25, 2021} -The Josie R. Johnson Leadership Academy fellows are coming down the home stretch in their 2021 program, and they’ve saved some of their best work for these last 90 days. Their goal is to finish strongly, as their campaign comes to...
African American Leadership Forum Is Growing, Fortifying Its Leadership Team and Working Better For You (& UBB PBA)
Transformative Twin Cities leadership org announces key talent appointments across its chain of command, reinforcing its senior management. {MINNEAPOLIS-September 18, 2021}--The African American Leadership Forum, a vastly diversified network of Black Thought Leaders,...
Alliance of Alliances to bring a different approach to advancing racial justice and equity in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul region
Alliance of Alliances to bring a different approach to advancing racial justice and equity in the Minneapolis and Saint Paul region African American Leadership Forum will coordinate comprehensive multi-year effort led and shaped by Black communities ...