Monthly Archives: April 2023
Kenyans sweep the Boston Marathon
BOSTON (AP) — Defending champion Evans Chebet of Kenya won the Boston Marathon again on Monday, surging to the front at Heartbreak Hill to...
Stearns Bank gives African Development Center $10M for underbanked community lending
African Development Center (ADC) just got a $10 million boost from St. Cloud-based Stearns Bank to expand financing in underbanked communities in central Minnesota.
The...
Ilhan Omar embarks on new path no longer defined by ‘firsts’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was winding up for a speech at a Minnesota clean energy facility when he spotted a lawmaker in...
Senegal’s Baaba Maal returns after years with new album
Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven...
Bob Lee, Cash App founder, fatally stabbed in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bob Lee, a technology executive who created Cash App and was currently chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally stabbed...
ACER seeks $3 million from legislature to fill gap left by Walmart in Brooklyn...
With the Brooklyn Center Walmart slated to close later this month, a local economic development and advocacy group seeks state aid to help fill...
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba will bring Mali to the Cedar
Bassekou Kouyate turns the traditional on its head, drawing world-wide music from his historically Malian and West African instruments. He and his band, Ngoni...