David Robinson, son of baseball legend Jackie Robinson will be the grand marshall at Books for Africa's Children's Book March taking place tomorrow (Saturday, September 24) starting at 10:30am.
Robinson, who moved to Tanzania 33 years ago and continues to live there, is in the Twin Cities to raise awareness and funds for Books for Africa. He threw the first...
After leaving her native Liberia as a teenager during the start of the civil war in 1990, Wokie Freeman and her family moved to the city of Brooklyn Park in Minnesota. She attended high school in the city then went on to the University of Minnesota to study chemistry. In her adult life Freeman decided to return to Brooklyn...
Starting Friday September 23, if you are eligible to vote, you can start casting absentee ballots in Minnesota for the Nov. 8 general election.
This is the first presidential election in which Minnesotans are allowed to vote absentee without having to give an excuse. Minnesota is one of 34 states with some type of early voting and is among the...
David Robinson, the son of baseball icon Jackie Robinson, will travel from his home on a coffee cooperative in Tanzania, to visit the Twin Cities Sept. 22-24 to talk about his volunteer work for St. Paul-based Books For Africa (BFA).
Robinson, who has lived in Tanzania for more than 30 years, participated earlier this year in a walk across Zanzibar,...
Incumbent president of the Mwanyagetinge Association of Kenyans in Minnesota, Geoffrey "Chui" Gichana, won reelection in a poorly attended but drama filled election on Saturday. The position of president is the only one that attracted a challenger. Sam Nyandoro, a retired US Army Specialist was running against the popular Gichana garnering 45% of the votes to the incumbent's 54%.
The...
Acting on a 2014 mandate issued by President Barack Obama, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Aug. 26 a new proposal that would allow foreign entrepreneurs to be considered for a two-year stay in the U.S. to start or scale up a business.
The proposal, known as the Immigrant Entrepreneur rule and informally dubbed a “startup visa,” though it is...
Friends and family gathered Wednesday for a visitation and viewing of the body of 21-year old Sean Maina who was stabbed in Dinkytown, a college neighborhood by the University of Minnesota on the night of August 25.
Twenty-three-year-old Brandon Kenneth Bockoven of Maple Grove was charged with second-degree murder last Friday and faces 40 years in prison if convicted.
Neither Maina...
Every day, humanitarian aid workers stand on the front lines of war and disaster, braving great dangers to deliver assistance to those in need. To pay tribute to these unsung heroes, 19 August has been designated as World Humanitarian Day (WHD).
As part this year’s commemoration, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs launched a photography exhibition...
Judicial corruption is the “queen mother” and the most sordid of all corrupt behavior inflicted on the good people of Africa. The tentacles of corruption in the judiciary branch of most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) run far, wide, and deep. The citizenry of SSA’s nation states are entitled to and deserve at a minimum, the same interna-tionally recognized...
Storms with heavy rain in many parts of Minnesota have caused dangerous flash flooding and damage to property. Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman is offering guidance to homeowners about what coverage they can expect from their insurance policies for water damage to their property.
“Minnesotans need to know what kind of water damage will be covered by their insurance policies,”...
Back in 2014, I wrote about how Minnesota's House 60B is different from Minneapolis City Council Ward 6. The objective of the essay was to highlight the fact that any Somali-American candidate challenging Rep. Phyllis Kahn will have to appeal to the majority community.
Ilhan Omar has done it. In Tuesday's primary she carried almost all the precincts in the district....
