Group will perform at the Ordway in St. Paul on February 9
South African traditional choir Ladysmith Black Mambazo tied with the Gipsy Kings for a Grammy win in the Best World Music Album category at the 56th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 26, during a live telecast on CBS. This is the group's fourth Grammy win.
The...
This year, Africans and Diaspora Africans across the globe have more of a reason to follow Hollywood movie awards than in any other year. In the past, when Africans watched movie award shows such as the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) or the Academy Awards – they hardly saw African faces, much less African nominees. Africa was...
By Hawa Noor, Intern & Emmanuel Kisiangani , Senior Researcher
Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division, ISS...
A new legal instrument allowing children or their representatives to file a complaint with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is set to go into effect in April, following its final required ratification, the United Nations today announced.
Costa Rica became the tenth country to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of...
Like the Colorado River helped to sculpt the Grand Canyon, so Oliver Mtukudzi and the Black Spirits work to shape their musical landscape into a fluid work of beauty. Tuku will play back-to-back gigs at the Dakota Jazz Bar on Tuesday, January 21.
Tuku’s music flows from his guitar along with his gritty voice. He blends traditional with new, strumming...
The Cedar Cultural Center, Augsburg College and KFAI radio will host a benefit concert on Friday, January 24th to raise funds for the Somali-American victims and their families of the New Year’s Day fire on Cedar Avenue in Minneapolis. The fire took the lives of three residents of the apartments above 516 Cedar Ave S, destroyed the Otanga Grocery...
Donna Brazile, the first African-American to manage a presidential campaign when she was campaign manager for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election, will keynote this year's Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Breakfast at the Minneapolis Convention Center on January 20.
The Breakfast will bring together an estimated 2,000 supporters and will be an opportunity to celebrate Dr. King’s legacy...
Your child has been home from school for three days with a cough, runny nose, and fever. You’ve had to miss work to take care of him and are worried that you’ll have to miss a couple more days. This is a common situation that families experience during influenza (flu) season because influenza can make people feel miserable for...
BY REBECCA LEBER AND ESTHER YU-HSI LEE
Despite a landmark comprehensive immigration reform bill that cleared the Senate in June, a corresponding bill that addresses the 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the United States has yet to come to a vote in the House. In fact, the only immigration-related bill that House members brought to a floor vote was a measure to pave the way for deporting...
Jacob Okioma gospel CD release for his debut CD, Niko na Imani (Swahili for I Have Faith), at the Kenya Community Church in Brooklyn Center brought out friends, family and members of the wider Kenyan church faithful in Minnesota to hear the local church elder. It was a capacity crowd with the 350-seat capacity sanctuary full and an overflow...
The rapidly growing Crown Medical Center with clinics in Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park has added a 20 year veteran of medicine, Dr. Rita Wallace-Reed to its roster of physicians.
Dr. Reed, originally from Ghana, is a graduate of the University of the Ghana Medical School which she followed with an internship in Surgery and Internal Medicine. She spent part of...
