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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...
Ladysmith Black Mambazo offers musical tonic in these troubled times
It’s impossible to walk away from a Ladysmith Black Mambazo show disappointed. They are consistently harmonic, tender, and impressive. They displayed all of these...
Dr. Stephanie Burrage appointed as Minnesota’s first chief equity officer
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday, March 29, announced the appointment of Dr. Stephanie Burrage as the state’s first chief equity officer. She is...
African American Leadership Forum launches policy fellowship
The African American Leadership Forum (AALF), Minnesota’s premier Black nonprofit that focuses on tackling the multifaceted disparities faced by the state’s Black population, has...
Harris in Africa looks to painful past, innovative future
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday stood before a monument commemorating Ghana’s independence from colonialism and envisioned a grand future...
Ladysmith Black Mambazo promises a dream of a show
What Joseph Shabalala started over sixty years ago and Albert Mazibuko joined in 1969 has become for the Twin Cities a perennial experience. Ladysmith...
Sona Jobarteh brings impeccable Gambia music to the Dakota stage
Before this week is out, Madison, Chicago, and Atlanta will find themselves plunged into the deep well of music created by Sona Jobarteh and...
Video shows Irvo Otieno pinned to floor before his death
DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — A large group of sheriff’s deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinned patient Irvo Otieno to the floor...
Ghanaians in Minnesota celebrate 66 years of their homeland’s independence
Ghanaian immigrants from all over Minnesota came together in the Twin Cities on Saturday to celebrate 66 years of their home country’s independence.
The Ghana...