The largest gathering of Kenyan women in the diaspora is set to take place in Minnesota’s Twin Cities in August, when an organization of women from the East African country living in the United States and Canada host their 10-year reunion.
“Our mission is to connect, support, and empower Kenyan women in the U.S.” said Lilly Richards, who founded Kenyan...
Throughout most of my adult life, I have been a student and teacher of history. I have studied and taught the history of Africa and the Middle East, and American history, including the history of immigration to the United States.
During those decades, I considered history a hobby that I somehow turned into a career – something so distant from...
At 5 p.m. Tuesday, the window closed for candidates to file to run in the special election for Minnesota House District 34B, left vacant after the assassination of former Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman.
Three Democrats and one Republican have filed to run. The Democrats that filed by the deadline for the special election are Hennepin County prosecutor Erickson...
In the race for Minneapolis mayor, state Sen. Omar Fateh on Saturday won the DFL endorsement over incumbent Jacob Frey during the party’s city convention, held at Target Center.
This is the first time in 16 years that the Minneapolis DFL has endorsed a candidate in the mayor’s race. Previous conventions have ended with no endorsement.
Fateh received the required 60...
African immigrants should push their elected officials to ensure that they are not left out of the distribution of mental health resources, according to two lawmakers from the community.
Rep. Esther Agbaje and Rep. Huldah Momanyi-Hiltsley were speaking on Friday in Brooklyn Center at the 11th annual African Mental Health Summit. The lawmakers encouraged individuals to communicate with their representatives...
Let’s wake up, take one breath and listen for the sound…
Thus begins the refrain of Sinkane’s anchoring song of the same name as their latest album, We Belong, released last year.
The six-piece band with Sudanese founder and lead singer, Ahmed Gallab, opens the Cedar Cultural Center’s Summer at the Cedar on July 9th, the first of seven weeks of...
A report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that Black Americans continue to face serious challenges in saving for retirement, even as their incomes grow.
The 2025 Retirement Confidence Survey, which included a special oversample of Black workers and retirees, found that the wealth gap remains wide at every income level. Among households earning $75,000 or more, only 33%...
The Trump Administration and Republican lawmakers’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” that passed last week and signed into law “is the most harmful, immoral budget we have seen in modern American history,” U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, flanked by local elected officials and nonprofits heads, declared in a July 10 press conference in Minneapolis.
Omar spoke from a community food shelf in...
By Mark Mengonfia, Monika Pronczuk and Wilson Mcmackin
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s praise of the “beautiful” English of Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai drew confusion Thursday in the English-speaking African country and umbrage over what many considered condescending remarks.
“Such good English,” Trump said to Boakai during an event at the White House, with visible surprise. “Such beautiful...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans disaffected with President William Ruto hold placards proclaiming “WANTAM,” a sensational slogan distilling their efforts to disgrace him as a “one-term” leader. They stick their index fingers in the air, saying Ruto must vacate the presidency when his term expires in 2027.
For others who want him gone only three years after he was elected,...
A federally funded study exploring why Black babies in Detroit are disproportionately born prematurely has been abruptly terminated by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as part of a wider effort by the federal government to eliminate research tied to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The study, which focused on how stress associated with racism and poverty might alter gene function...
