BBC Radio 3 Awards winner Dobet Gnahoré returns to Minneapolis this Sunday with two shows in one night.She will perform at 7pm and 9pm at the Dakota Jazz Club and restaurant in downtown Minneapolis.
Gnahoré won the Grammy for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for the song “Pearls” in collaboration with India.Arie in 2010 and has continued to garner a reputation as...
“Much of their performance was pedestrian,” said Maja Brunes, dance major graduate from Main Street School of Performing Arts in Hopkins and admitted dance major to the University of Minnesota.
Her summary stopped me. In my mind, Voices of Strength, which performed for three nights-October 10 – 13-at the Walker Arts Center in McGuire Theater, exposed me to an entirely...
NEW YORK - Despite great progress within a short time, the 29 French-speaking countries of sub-Saharan Africa are lagging far behind other states in the region in the battle against HIV/AIDS and need a massive increase in international aid, according to a United Nations report issued today.
“It is decision time for La Francophonie,” Michel Sidibé, the Executive Director of...
The Network Marketing Company which is also Direct Selling or Multi-Level Marketing brings the most powerful system of free enterprise in our modern world. Through distributors it's entering the East African market through a user turned evangelist of its product, Dr. Karl Anderson, a prominent Twin Cities dentist.
Dr. Anderson has teamed up with a group of Kenyan Americans to...
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...
