The annual African Mental Health Summit will return to the Twin Cities on July 22 for the 8th year since it was founded to initiate conversations about mental health in the African community.
The theme of this year’s summit is “Transformation. Restoration. Recovery: Necessity of All of Humanity Working Together,” and aims to address issues of stigmatization of mental illness...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even though Nipsey Hussle was gunned down outside a Los Angeles clothing store three years ago, the sting of his death remains fresh for those who revered the widely beloved rapper and community activist.
Several paid homage to Hussle’s positive influence during a murder trial that ended Wednesday with a conviction for his killing. Some shed...
Eid al-Adha, the second and biggest of the two main holidays celebrated in Islam, happens this weekend. The holiday honors the willingness of Ibrahim to sacrifice his son Ismail as an act of obedience to Allah’s command.
While the pandemic tamped down on celebrations in the past two years, this year the Muslim community in Minnesota is planning to gather...
As of July 1 the U.S. State Department has stopped honoring expired US passports for entry into the country. Following the pandemic and resulting delays in processing of passport applications, U.S. citizens abroad whose passport had expired on or after January 1, 2020 were allowed to enter the country with their expired passport.
Many U.S. embassies and consulates abroad closed...
Elmo got a COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, according to Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind “Sesame Street.”
In a public service announcement posted to YouTube, the beloved 3-and-a-half-year-old “Sesame Street” star talked with his dad about what it was like to get the shot.
“There was a little pinch, but it was OK,” Elmo said in the video.
Elmo’s dad said he...
The duo that comprises Les Nubian, Hélène Faussart and Célia Faussart, emerges from the pandemic with new music and renewed passion to bring their melange of sound to the world. The imposed quarantine was both frustrating and fruitful for the two women.
Mshale spoke to the sisters this week on Zoom, with Hélène in Guadeloupe and Célia in Paris. The...
At least some U.S. adults may get updated COVID-19 shots this fall, as government advisers voted Tuesday that it’s time to tweak booster doses to better match the most recent virus variants.
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration wrestled with how to modify doses now when there’s no way to know how the rapidly mutating virus will evolve by...
The Cedar Cultural Center hosts hundreds of musical acts every year, but they could not contain the sound of Femi Kuti and his band Positive Force last Wednesday evening, June 22nd.
Nearly 400 concert-goers absorbed Kuti’s music in a standing-room-only concert. Pummeled by the sound of a full band that included Femi’s son, Made Kuti, if the Cedar’s roof could...
Huldah Momanyi Hiltsley, the Kenyan community leader running for a seat in the Minnesota State Senate, has earned the endorsement of Stonewall DFL and OutFront Minnesota—two influential LGBTQIA+ advocacy groups.
“Huldah understands the value of unconditional love for LGBTQIA+ youth and the community,” said Tamara Grady, the Osseo Area Schools Board Director, who is also the mother of two LGBTQIA+...
Spirits were high last weekend in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, as residents attended the suburban Minneapolis city’s first annual celebration of Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved Africans in the United States.
Themed “Freedom ain’t Free”, the Juneteenth event took place at the Health and Wellness Center at North Hennepin Community College on Friday evening.
“I wholeheartedly believe that this...
Residents of Brooklyn Center gathered in Centennial Park on Saturday to commemorate Juneteenth (short for June nineteenth) to honor the historic milestone that was the freeing of the final slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865. A highly anticipated facilitated discussion, featuring community leaders and public figures, concluded the activities with a candid discussion about race and trauma.
“It is...
