A Kenyan-born doctor has become the 158th president of Minnesota Medical Association (MMA), the first person of color to lead the organization since its founding in 1853.
Dr. Edwin Bogonko is a physician with Allina Health in Shakopee and has been a very active member of the MMA since 2010, when he joined the nonprofit professional group that represents physicians,...
African professionals gathered on Saturday for the half-day African Immigrant professional Development Conference (AIPDC), hosted annually by the Center for Immigrant Career Advancement. Now in its seventh year, the keynote address was presented by Tom Gitaa, the founder and publisher of Mshale.
This year’s theme was ‘Harnessing the Power of Community.”
In the address Gitaa gave at the AIPDC, the publisher told...
Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, mailed straight to their homes.
The U.S. government reopened the program on Thursday, allowing any household to order up to four at-home nasal-swab kits through the COVIDtests.gov website, The tests will begin shipping, via the United States Postal Service, as soon as next week.
The website has been reopened on the...
Canada is closing its doors to more visitors and temporary residents by approving fewer visas and turning away more people who reach its borders with official documents, according to government data obtained by Reuters.
The spike in rejections of foreign travellers comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government, trailing in polls ahead of an election expected next year, tries...
Vice President Kamala Harris was interviewed by a three-member panel of National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. The panel consisted of Tonya Mosley, Co-host of WHYY’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley, Gerren Keith Gaynor, White House Correspondent and Managing Editor of Politics at TheGrio and Eugene Daniels, Playbook Co-author and...
Early voting in Minnesota, both in-person and via mail, starts one week from today on September 20. This is a presidential election year but Minnesotans will also be electing a U.S. Senator and all U.S. House of Representative seats. The Minnesota House of Representatives is also on the ballot as are many local elections at the county and city...
About 6 in 10 debate-watchers said Harris outperformed Trump in Tuesday’s presidential debate, while about 4 in 10 said Trump did a better job, according to a flash poll conducted by CNN, with Harris exceeding debate-watchers’ expectations. Before the debate, the same voters were evenly split on whether Trump or Harris would win.
The vast majority of debate watchers —...
"'My kids asked me to move to a little house with no steps. I am in my 90s. I moved to a place with no stairs. But when I visit my children, it became harder and harder to navigate the stairs to enter their homes,'" Ann Bussey read. The community advocate was reciting the story of a senior from...
Puddingstone, a conglomerate rock in which dark-colored rounded pebbles contrast with a paler, fine-grained matrix. Even more, the nature of puddingstone symbolizes unity, bringing together various minerals in perfect harmony.
An apt moniker for Richard Bona who started his career in the arts as a child building his own instruments, playing the music of Cameroon, his motherland.
Mshale connected with Bona...
On Aug. 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech before an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Jonathan Butler is a man of character and he showed us that at the Dakota last week when he opened the evening, not with his own work, but with a tribute to another legendary jazz musician. Promptly at 6:30, Butler walked out onto stage along with his band and immediately played a number echoing David Sanborn’s “Maputo.” Sanborn died...