Her face now reserved, Aisha Abdullahi sits on stage under a bright spotlight. Jose Guzman works the microphone and camera while Tea Rozman-Clark perches in an opposing chair, leaning forward, as she attempts to draw a story out of the young woman whose voice has unexpectedly fallen to a barely perceptible decibel. Seven of us in the auditorium of...
Immigrants still smarting from president Donald Trump's executive orders banning entry from Muslim-majority countries have a new challenge to contend with. New legislation to be introduced by Trump ally, first term US Senator Tom Cotton, of Arkansas intends to end the popular diversity visa lottery which allots about 50,000 visas a year to countries that have traditionally had lower...
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars will perform live at a Books for Africa benefit concert at the Amsterdam Bar & Hall in St.Paul on Friday, February 10 to raise funds to send a container of books (22,000 books) to Sierra Leone.
The band was formed by those fleeing their homes in the 1990s during Sierra Leone’s bloody civil war. It...
Their smiling faces and simple melodies belie the hard work and carefully cultivated talent that goes into the performance of Grammy-winning Ladysmith Black Mambazo. On stage at the historic State Theater in Minneapolis last Saturday evening, this nonet of cultural ambassadors for South Africa brought nothing but acclaim to their country.
Their concert, accented with hallmark South African sounds of...
Four-time Grammy winner, South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo, will be back in the Twin Cities on February 4 at the State Theatre in Minneapolis.
The group, known for their plifting harmonies that dwell on love and harmony and given their country's history, freedom of the political kind.
Walking in the Footsteps of Our Fathers is their first studio album in five...
The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) today released a report on the impact of President Donald Trump’s large-scale deportation plan on US families and the US economy.
The report provides a statistical portrait of the US undocumented population, with an emphasis on the social and economic condition of mixed-status households (that is, households that contain a US...
Last week, the new White House Administration issued several Executive Orders targeting immigrants for deportation and increasing the forces of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and giving them more power to capture, detain and deport immigrants. In particular, refugees and visitors from seven countries, including the African nations of Libya, Sudan and Somalia...
Measles kills 400 children in the world every day. It is very contagious and travels easily from one continent to another. But, there is something you can do to protect you and your family – get vaccinated.
If you are traveling overseas, make sure that you and your children are up-to-date on your measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (called MMR)....
Less than a week into his presidency Donald Trump has signed a whirlwind of executive actions, the latest of which is a ban that targets Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and Africa. The executive action was signed and implemented on Friday January 27 on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The order bars individuals coming from seven Muslim majority countries...
President Donald Trump is expected to sign a new executive order today (January 26) suspending immigration from Somalia and Sudan for 30 days according to the New York Times which said yesterday that it has obtained an eight-page draft of the executive order. The order will also block indefinitely Syrian refugees from entering the United States. The order will...
Kenya's renowned photojournalist and human rights activist, Boniface Mwangi, told a friendly and diverse group of Kenyans in Minnesota a sobering reality they might not have fully considered. The country, he said, was on course to move from leadership based on tribal kingpins to one ruled by criminal leaders and cartels.
For evidence, he offered Mombasa governor Hassan Joho and...
