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...
Marianne Neba is 18 years old, a native of Cameroon who immigrated to the United States a few years ago and recently graduated from Park Center High school Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. For the last three years, Neba has been a participant of the AGILE/Amakolo African Girls Pathways to Success project offered by the Minnesota African Women Association (MAWA).
Neba has...
The Kenya Diaspora Development Forum of Minnesota (KDDF) has scheduled an official launch for this coming Sunday, September 2 at Brookview Park in Golden Valley at 3:00pm. It is one of two groups in the state jostling for effective representation of the large number of Kenyans resident here. The other is the Kenya Diaspora Advisory Council of Minnesota (KDAC),...
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Thousands of young undocumented immigrants formed long lines at help-centers and churches across the United States last Wednesday to start their process of gaining temporary legal status, under President Obama’s new program to defer deportations for many brought to this country as children.
But others are purposely delaying their applications for the deferred-deportation program — at...
Earlier this month, singer Ahmed Janka Nabay was milling about the Brooklyn warehouse concert venue 285 Kent. In the crowded, windowless confines of the space, he stood out. Mr. Nabay is tall and sinewy, with pencil-thick dreadlocks. And at age 47, he had a good 25 years on most of the crowd. Also, he was probably the only person...
President Obama has been hearing one persistent grumble from the moment he entered the White House. And that’s that he has not said and done enough to boost African-Americans.
It’s been nothing more than a low intensity grumble for two simple reasons. One is that blacks backed him in near record numbers in his 2008 presidential drive. They will back...
The Organization of Liberians in Minnesota (OLM), in collaboration with the City of Brooklyn Park, will host a consultative community forum on the establishment of a national oil policy for Liberia, on Saturday August 18, in Brooklyn Park, Minn.
The event begins at 6 p.m., at the Community Activity Center (5600 85th Ave., Brooklyn Park, MN 55443).
Organized by the National...
IBM is opening its first research center in Africa, capping several years of international marketing by the Kenyan government and visits by IBM officials.
The center will be at Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi and will be a collaboration with the Kenyan Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology, IBM announced Monday.
"IBM has had a presence in Africa for...
