Former Brooklyn Park City Council member Xp Lee on Tuesday won the DFL nomination to run for Minnesota’s House District 34B, left vacant after the assassination of former speaker of the House Melissa Hortman in June.
Lee received 1,186 votes or 59 percent of the 2,005 votes cast in the DFL special primary. Brooklyn Park City Council member Christian Eriksen...
It was all pomp and circumstance Saturday, as hundreds of Kenyan women from across the United States and Canada descended on Minnesota’s Twin Cities for a gala to conclude a three-day reunion that began Thursday.
The gala was the peak of a convention that began in St. Paul on Thursday to celebrate 10 years since the founding of Kenyan Women...
The largest organization of Kenyan women in North America began a three-day convention in Minnesota Friday to celebrate its 10th anniversary.
The convention of Kenyan Women in the United States, which is popularly known by the acronym, KWITU, brought hundreds of women from across the United States to St. Paul in what organizers called a reunion of its members.
Most attendees...
The Little Africa festival returned to St. Paul for the 11th year, as members from African communities came to showcase their cultures and support their businesses.
“It means a lot to me because it brings together different cultures, awareness, businesses,” said Ugandan-born John Kisekka. “There is plenty of food. I encourage all Africans to come meet, socialize, make new friends,...
The Ames Center’s 1,000 seat main theater in Burnsville which on a regular basis hosts theatrical plays and concerts - such as the “Takin' It To The Limit” EAGLES tribute” next month - was filled to capacity on Sunday, but it wasn’t a play or concert that Kenyan Americans drove hours to see.
A Kenyan presidential candidate, Dr. Fred Okeng’o...
A new 16-page issue brief by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies warns that federal industrial policy investments aimed at advancing economic opportunity for Black communities are under threat, as the Trump administration eliminates key diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) provisions and slows the disbursement of funding.
Authored by policy analyst Dr. Gabrielle Smith Finnie, the report, “Shifting...
A University of Nairobi professor has described President William Ruto of Kenya as “the most hated man” in the country, just a year after a popular uprising by youth protesting high taxation, dubbed the “Gen Z Protests” almost toppled his government.
The president’s image will take another hit this weekend when one of the candidates seeking to make him a...
The wait is over for families that have been waiting for the completion of Minneapolis’ newest affordable complex in the Seward neighborhood.
The grand opening of Wadaag Commons was celebrated by U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Housing Commissioner Jennifer Ho, Hennepin County Commissioner Angela Conley, Mayor Jacob Frey, Councilman Jamal Osman and project partners on Tuesday, July 29, with a...
The sounds of Afrobeat, and in particular songs by Skrewfaze and Deetweh, pulsated along Shingle Creek Parkway in Brooklyn Center on Saturday, as the Liberian Independence Day Parade made its way from the Brookdale Library headed to Bass Lake Road before looping around to conclude at Centennial Park for daylong festivities.
The parade started with hundreds of Liberian Americans waving...
A clergyman from the Liberian community in Minnesota has urged his compatriots to be pragmatic, reconciliatory, and to tell their people’s full story, as they continue to rebuild following the civil wars that ravaged their country.
Rev. Alexander Bango Collins, the lead pastor at Redeemed Life Church and the board chair of Liberian Ministers Association, Minnesota, made the remarks in...
Entrepreneurs, business owners and corporate leaders looking to amass beneficial information on doing business with Africa will come together next week on Aug. 1 for the U.S.-Africa trade and investment summit in St. Paul.
The half day event is being organized by the Minnesota-based nonprofit Minnesota Africans United (MAU), a coalition of African immigrant communities in the state. It is...
