WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was winding up for a speech at a Minnesota clean energy facility when he spotted a lawmaker in the crowd whom he wanted to recognize.
“I want to thank you for being here,” Biden said, gesturing toward Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar during his recent visit. “You never stop working to level the playing field...
Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven years, “Being.”
The genre-crossing album, released by Marathon Artists last Friday, is explores those themes and showcases traditional African instruments along with futuristic electronic sounds.
The first single from the record, “Yerimayo Celebration,” is a jubilant, rabble-rousing...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Bob Lee, a technology executive who created Cash App and was currently chief product officer of MobileCoin, was fatally stabbed in downtown San Francisco early Tuesday, according to the cryptocurrency platform and police.
Also Read: Why are Black people more likely to use Cash App despite security concerns?
The San Francisco Police Department said in a statement...
With the Brooklyn Center Walmart slated to close later this month, a local economic development and advocacy group seeks state aid to help fill the hole left behind.
Sponsored by Rep. Samantha Vang (DFL-Brooklyn Center), HF3175 would appropriate $3 million for African Career, Education and Resources, Inc. to purchase a strip mall on Shingle Creek Parkway in Brooklyn Center for...
Bassekou Kouyate turns the traditional on its head, drawing world-wide music from his historically Malian and West African instruments. He and his band, Ngoni Ba, which includes family members such as his spouse the lead vocalist, Amy Sacko, and one of his sons, his nephew, and his little brother take the stage at the Cedar Cultural Center on Earth...
It’s impossible to walk away from a Ladysmith Black Mambazo show disappointed. They are consistently harmonic, tender, and impressive. They displayed all of these traits and more on stage at the Dakota in Minneapolis on March 28th.
Their 75-minute set, one of two for the evening, opened without preamble from the a cappella group. In their brown trousers, earth-toned tunics...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Wednesday, March 29, announced the appointment of Dr. Stephanie Burrage as the state’s first chief equity officer. She is currently the deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Education and a senior advisor to the Governor’s Office.
Once she assumes office, she will assist the governor’s office in the creation of a new Equity and...
The African American Leadership Forum (AALF), Minnesota’s premier Black nonprofit that focuses on tackling the multifaceted disparities faced by the state’s Black population, has launched its first ever policy fellowship aimed at helping it expand its capacity to develop “unique and innovative policy solutions” that will lead to advocacy and action.
Ms. Amber Jones, the managing director for policy impact...
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday stood before a monument commemorating Ghana’s independence from colonialism and envisioned a grand future between the U.S. and Africa, propelled by innovation on the continent. But she’s also insisting on exploring past wounds, heading to a seaside fort where enslaved Africans were loaded onto ships bound for the Americas.
“We...
What Joseph Shabalala started over sixty years ago and Albert Mazibuko joined in 1969 has become for the Twin Cities a perennial experience. Ladysmith Black Mambazo troops on stage at the Dakota March 28th giving us all an opportunity for mindfulness if you’ve seen them before and delightful surprise if you’ve never indulged in their show.
Albert Mazibuko spoke with...
