WASHINGTON - Will victims of distant genocides and crimes against humanity be allowed to continue using U. S. courts to seek justice against their persecutors, as well as the individuals and corporations that helped facilitate human rights violations across the globe?
In a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Shell Oil is sending a shocking message: victims of mass atrocities...
Influenza is an illness that affects people of all ages worldwide. Symptoms range from mild to severe, and it is a major health issue around the world. Everyone can help fight the spread of influenza each year by getting vaccinated. Vaccination is also one of the best ways to reduce your chance of getting ill.
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It has been said before elsewhere and by us ad nausea every election that comes around that it is the most important one of our lifetime, that it has become almost cliché.
However, unless you are so detached from our political system, it is hard to argue with folk that this indeed is a very important election. For one, if...
Voices of Strength—featuring a consortium of African artists—brings a festival of dance, theater, and storytelling to the Walker Arts Center stage during mid-October. In performances both ticketed and free, audiences will have the opportunity to engage with five contemporary theater makers/choreographers and cultural leaders— Nelisiwe Xaba (South Africa), Kettly Noël (Haiti/Mali), Gbahihonon Nadia Beugré (Côte d’Ivoire), Maria Helena Pinto...
Alex Okosi left Nigeria as a young boy in the late 1980s to seek a better future in the United States.
By the early 2000s, the music executive was carving a successful career with broadcasting giant MTV, holding strategic positions within the influential medial company both in the United States and Europe.
Yet, Okosi never forgot where he came from. His...
The University of Connecticut’s first African-American professor, Rollin Charles Williams, died Monday, Sept. 24, in Waterford, Conn., after a short illness. He was 90 years old.
A professor emeritus at the time of his death, Williams was hired as a full-time assistant professor in the School of Social Work in 1957. During his 30 years with the University, Williams spent...
Thousands of Somalis congregated at the Minneapolis Convention Center on Saturday to celebrate the newly elected president for Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Despite similar celebrations marking a historic milestone in home and abroad, this took the title “New Beginning”: the rebirth of Somalia.
After battling 20 years of civil war, Somalis yearn stability. Singers, politicians, elders and many more filled...
Considering that Paula Osorio has multiple jobs and no paid sick days, the nosebleed could not have come at a worse time: right before her shift caring for an elderly woman in a private home.
In a nursing home or hospital, she would be able to lean on other caregivers. But the patient in her care, 91-year-old Elda Frank, has...
The Minnesota African Women’s Association (MAWA) this past summer, engaged women from different parts of Africa across the Twin cities, in a series of training programs and activities that made the summer very enriching.
On Saturday August 18th 20012, about fifteen women from different African countries attended a two- hour training program at the MAWA office conference room in Brooklyn...
Actress and sometimes MTV host Amanda Seales says she knew "absolutely nothing" about Equatorial Guinea when she received an invitation to the Leon H. Sullivan Foundation's biennial summit, held last week in the tiny African nation. The 31-year-old has acted in a Nickelodeon series, hosted on MTV, released music, poetry, and visual art, and earned a master's in African...
“It is my first time to touch computer and I am very happy,” exclaims Zulfa Fara, an older Ethiopian immigrant currently using a public computer center developed through the Broadband Access Project (BAP), a program of the University of Minnesota’s Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC). In response to the growing digital divide among underserved communities in the Twin...