At the West County Detention Facility, inmates can pay upwards of $20 for a five-minute phone call to friends, relatives or lawyers. While the high rates are a cash cow for the prison, for detainees they have become a major hurdle to staying in touch with the outside.
For immigrant detainees and their families, the high phone rates can lead...
Around 100,000 people will be chosen from several million hopefuls to get a US Green Card on Wednesday, in what could be the last year of the annual lottery, slated to vanish under proposed reforms.
Each year, 50,000 permanent residency permits are allocated to people from countries that see relatively few emigrants depart for the United States.
Created in 1995, the...
As the debate over immigration reform tugs predictably back in Washington, an undercurrent of ageism and disability bias has been flowing beneath more obvious racial and class implications.
Take, for instance, the recent USA Today op-ed co-authored by former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., now president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, which warned, “The truly enormous costs come when unauthorized...
The African Immigrant Services (AIS), in collaboration with the Diversity and Equity Department of North Hennepin Community College (NHCC ), Brooklyn Park’s Diversity Team, and the Northwest Civic Engagement Coalition, will host and facilitate a community civic engagement conversation on Thursday May 9, 2013, at Brooklyn Park’s City Council Chambers, in Brooklyn Park, Minn.
The conversation will begin at 5:45...
Casual readers of optimistic headlines about Africa’s high growth rates and record levels of foreign investment might be forgiven for thinking all is well on the continent – or at least that, with ‘Africa Rising’, all will be well before too long. But many of the perspectives and figures underlying these simplistic narratives obscure the complex reality of rising...
Cape Town played host to the Breathe Sunshine African Music Conference, a new venture into the development of music produced on the continent.
Held in the centre of Cape Town at City Hall, the two-day symposium sought to facilitate the transfer knowledge between artists while fostering a strong spirit of collaboration.
The primary aim of the conference was the promotion of...
Three daughters of renowned South African social rights activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu will come together on one stage to discuss, enrich and debate in a dialogue for hope as part of the university's Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC) Critical Conversation series.
The Rev. Mpho Tutu, race and gender activist Nontombi Naomi Tutu, and researcher Thandeka Tutu-Gxashe will be at...
Samuel Mwangi, a hospitality industry veteran, has been admitted to the City of Champlin's Environmental Resources Commission (ERC) as a commissioner representing the city's Ward 4.The commission represents the citizens of City of Champlin, in addressing issues such as biodiversity, renewable energy, conservation, recycling, waste management, energy saving, environmental pollution and waste water treatment etc.
A suburb of Minneapolis, Champlin...
It has been a few years now since the Internal Revenue Service’s ruling that all non-profits must file their taxes. Those non-profits that failed to file their taxes for three consecutive years have had their status automatically revoked. Although the regulation that engendered this reaction was not enacted this year, the impact is now being felt in the broader...
In the wake of the November 2012 election, this year is an ideal time for Congress and the President to agree on a specific plan to fix the nation’s broken immigration system. For the first time since 2007 (when the last comprehensive immigration bill stalled and failed to pass), the Senate is set to introduce legislation that provides a...
Nobel Peace Prize recipient Leymah Gbowee of Liberia will speak at at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Brooklyn Park as part of an annual two-day youth conference, PeaceJam, sponsored by the Minneapolis-based nonprofit youthrive.
Gbowee, an activist and social worker, was awarded the prize in 2011 alongside two other female peace-makers, Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson and Yemeni...