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Dozens of Brooklyn Park residents last evening crammed into city council chambers to witness history being made in Minnesota’s sixth largest city, the swearing in of the city's first black council member, Wynfred Russell, who was born and raised in Liberia.
Russell, a former instructor at the University of Minnesota, defeated former council member Bob Mata by garnering a convincing...
New enrollments of international students fell by 6.6 percent at American universities in academic year 2017-18 compared to the year before, marking the second straight year in declines in new enrollments, according to new data from the annual Open Doors survey.
New enrollments fell 6.3 percent at the undergraduate level, 5.5 percent at the graduate level and 9.7 percent at the nondegree level from...
By Matthew Lee and Annie Ma
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has halted the scheduling of new visa interviews for foreign students hoping to study in the U.S. while it prepares to expand the screening of their activity on social media, officials said.
A U.S. official said Tuesday the suspension is intended to be temporary and does not apply to...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, one of the most renowned icons of African literature, has died, according announcements from his children. He was 87.
“It tears my heart to say that my father, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, passed away earlier today,” his son, Mukoma wa Ngugi announced on Facebook on Wednesday. “I am me because of him in so many ways, as his...
By Joshua Goodman and Gisela Salomon
MIAMI (AP) — Juan Serrano, a 28-year-old Colombian migrant with no criminal record, attended a hearing in immigration court in Miami on Wednesday for what he thought would be a quick check-in.
The musty, glass-paneled courthouse sees hundreds of such hearings every day. Most last less than five minutes and end with a judge ordering those...
Even before Target publicly rolled back its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, the Black Press of America had requested a meeting with CEO Brian Cornell. Those requests—from National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. and NNPA Chairman Bobby Henry—have gone unanswered for nearly a year. Cornell has not spoken to either Chavis...
By Gerald Imray and Aamer Madhani
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to forcefully confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing the country of failing to address Trump’s baseless claim of the systematic killing of white farmers.
Trump even dimmed the lights of the Oval Office to play a video of a far-left politician chanting a song...
By Fatima Hussein and Megan Janetsky
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel Vail’s entire life in the small western Guatemalan town of Cajolá is built off the money that his three children send home from the United States.
The money from their construction jobs paid for the two-story white home where Vail now lives — and where his children, who are in the...
Black-owned businesses have experienced historic growth in recent years, but that progress is now under threat. A sharp decline in small business optimism, coupled with sweeping anti-DEI executive orders from the Trump administration, is creating new hurdles—particularly for African American entrepreneurs who remain vastly underrepresented in the U.S. economy.
According to Pew Research Center, the number of U.S. firms with...
Rwanda drew international attention, and some outrage, by agreeing to take in Britain’s rejected asylum-seekers in a plan that collapsed last year. Now Rwanda says it is talking with the Trump administration about a similar idea – and it might find more success.
The negotiations mark an expansion in U.S. efforts to deport people to countries other than their own....
While President Donald Trump and his allies at the Heritage Foundation work to gut diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs across America, a dangerous narrative continues to spread—that DEI is some handout to Black Americans. But the truth, backed by decades of data and recent studies, reveals a different picture entirely: the primary beneficiaries of DEI have not been...
Results for the 2026 Diversity Visa Program (DV-2026), popularly known as the Green Card Lottery, will be available online starting tomorrow (May 3, 2025) at 12 p.m. EST.
The U.S. government program that is run by the State Department makes 55,000 immigrant visas available each year. The visas are awarded randomly to people from countries with historically low immigration rates...
Tuesday evening, April 29th, nearly 200 people gathered at The Cedar Cultural Center in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis to taste not only an assortment of cheeses, olives, and other hors d’oeuvres, but also the sampling of music slated for this summer on the Cedar’s outdoor plaza.
The Cedar’s board president, Maryam Yusefzadeh, opened the first ever Summer Plaza Preview...