Senegalese born singer-songwriter and performer Elage Diouf, known for his audience participation shows will bring his music to the Cedar in Minneapolis on Monday, November 20. Advance tickets are $15 and $18 at the door.
Diouf who is based in Montreal, was one of the performers at September's Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Massey Hall in Toronto...
Africans made gains in elective office on election day Tuesday in Minnesota. This being an off year election there were no statewide elections on the ballot as it was mostly municipal and school
board races that voters went to the polls for.
In Minneapolis, the most watched race was that for Minneapolis City Council Ward 6 where the incumbent, Abdi Warsame,...
The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program administered by the U.S. Department of State has been in the news lately with calls to end it after one of its recipients, Uzbek native Sayfullo Saipov, was accused of driving a rented truck down a crowded New York City bike path, killing eight people and injuring more than a dozen others on October...
With the cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an estimated 200,000 children are at risk of losing their parents.
In September, the Trump administration announced it was rescinding DACA pending a six-month delay. The program is an Obama-era initiative that shields undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation, and allows them to...
The 6th edition of the African Awards Gala is scheduled for Saturday, October 14 at the Minneapolis Marriott Northwest in Brooklyn Park. Rep. Ilhan Omar who is serving her first term in the Minnesota House of Representatives will keynote. Omar received the Community Leadership Award at the 5th edition of the African Awards. She is the first alumni of...
Rates of discrimination against African Americans in field experiments of hiring did not decline from 1990 to 2015, according to the largest and most comprehensive meta-analysis of its kind.
“It is often suggested that prejudice and discrimination are fading out over time through a gradual process of liberalization of attitudes,” says Lincoln Quillian, senior author of the study and professor...
By Tolulope Monisola OLA (PhD) & Richard B. Oni (PhD)
Who is to blame for my mother’s or father’s dementia? Whose fault is it? Why the blame game? What are the implications/consequences of the blame game in dementia care among the African immigrants and refugees? Epicetus a Greek Stoic philosopher once said: “An ignorant person is inclined to blame others...
NAIROBI - With results tallied from Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission IEBC), electoral candidates across the country are celebrating their wins and mourning their losses. With a reported 16,259 Kenyans vying for 1,882 seats, there were no shortages of candidates for Kenyans to rally behind this election season.
Despite the fact that Kenyan residents living in the U.S. remain...
After deadly mudslides swept through Sierra Leone earlier this month, numerous events were held throughout Twin Cities metro area — meetings that both raised money for relief efforts in the west African country and detailed how the disaster had impacted many of the estimated 8,000 members of the Sierra Leone community in Minnesota.
And yet, Issa Mansaray, a leader and...
In our latest Business Spotlight, Bethel Gessesse sat down with Abdirahman Kahin, the owner of the thriving Afro Deli to discuss the state of his widely celebrated eateries and future plans. Afro Deli has two locations in the Twin Cities, one in the East Bank of the University of Minnesota and another one in St. Paul. To be considered...
State Representative Ilhan Omar reviews her first legislative session.
The 2017 regular and first special session are now over, as a newly elected member of the Minnesota House of Representatives – the first Somali-American, Muslim woman in the nation to hold office at this level – I want to take a moment to share my impressions of what took place...
