DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Africa’s star musicians hit the red carpet this past weekend at the annual All Africa Music Awards, celebrating the continent’s best talent.
The four-day event culminated Sunday evening at an awards ceremony on the outskirts of Senegal’s capital, Dakar, and included performances from some of Africa’s most popular musicians such as Nigeria’s P-Square and Tiwa Savage,...
If you think it’s too late to start making a New Year’s resolution, Rev. Dr. Francis Tabla wants you to think again.
Tabla, a local pastor, has a book that teaches how to set goals and encourages readers to start planning better today. He celebrated the launch of his new book, Plan Your Work, and Work Your Plan, with a...
April Graves took her mayoral oath of office Monday, becoming the first Black woman to lead Brooklyn Center.
“I think we are all ready for change,” Graves said.
Brooklyn Center, whose residents of color make up around 59% of the population, only recently had its first Black top executive, the outgoing mayor Mike Elliot, a Liberian American who was elected in...
When she’s not working her day job as a medical device engineer, Fadumo Yusuf writes the stories her younger self yearned for.
“I never saw myself represented in the books I read, so I decided to become the change that I wanted to see,” Yusuf said during a recent signing for her new novel at the Doubletree hotel in Bloomington,...
The new Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty celebrated her election Thursday and promised to make changes that will restore trust in the county’s law enforcement system.
“People have asked me if I see this as overwhelming,” Moriarty told her supporters at the All Square restaurant in Minneapolis. “I see it as an opportunity to create change.”
In the last decade, the...
Hollies Winston, the businessman that successfully sold a vision of an inclusive city to voters in November, the grandson of a Mississippi sharecropper and son of retired corporate executives, was officially sworn in Monday as Brooklyn Park’s first Black mayor.
In the chambers of Brooklyn Park’s City Council, Mr. Winston, 43, clad in a slate green blazer that belonged to...
Former Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett will be the keynote speaker at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Breakfast on Jan. 16, which will return in-person for the first time since 2020 with a corresponding virtual program.
The in-person event will be held at the Minneapolis Convention Center starting at 8 a.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day became a...
To President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and perhaps most of the African leaders who traveled to Washington D.C. in December for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the meeting was a major success.
The gathering presented Biden with an opportunity to spell out a foreign policy on Africa that’s forward-looking. It was a much-needed summit to engage Africa and begin repairing relations,...
The swearing in of three Black women at the Minnesota state senate on Jan. 3 was indeed historic, but it might have taken the spotlight away from another remarkable achievement for people of color in general.
In addition to Clare Oumou Verbeten, Zaynab Mohamed, and Erin Maye Quade, who jointly made history as the first Black women ever elected to...
The 2023 swearing in of lawmakers who were elected to Minnesota’s state legislature was like no other before. The ceremony, which was held on Jan. 3, saw the swearing in of a Black woman for the state senate for the first time since Minnesota joined the United States 164 years ago.
Make that three Black women sworn in. Zaynab Mohamed...
The Minnesota state Senate convenes today at noon and for the first time will have Black women among its ranks and will have a Black man as its president, also for the first time as Bobby Joe Champion becomes the first Black person to do so. Watch live above and read about the women at this link and about...