Angélique Kidjo won Best World Music Album for Celia at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, beating out fellow nominees Altin Gün (Gece), Bokanté & Metropole Orkest Conducted By Jules Buckley (What Heat), Burna Boy (African Giant) and Nathalie Joachim With Spektral Quartet (Fanm D'Ayiti) to bag her fourth Grammy win.
The World Music category is usually not aired during...
The US Supreme Court today on a 5-4 vote is allowing the Trump administration to deny those who have used public benefits such as Medicaid, food stamps, Section 8 housing assistance or cash assistance from getting green cards. The Trump administration appealed a ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that had put on...
Days before the start of the 2020 early voting for the upcoming first presidential primary in Minnesota, Osman Ahmed, who serves as US Senator Tina Smith's Outreach and Housing Policy Director at the Minnesota office, is stepping down to take a job in the non-profit sector.
His departure will leave Senator Smith's Minnesota office with no person of color in...
The Cedar Cultural Center has announced six artists for the ninth Cedar Commissions, its flagship program for emerging Minnesota composers and musicians. The six are ilan Blanck, Tensae Fayise, Freaque, Rebecca Nichloson, Dua Saleh and Anat Spiegel.
Their works will be showcased at performances on February 21 and 22.
Over the two nights of the 2020 Cedar Commissions, audience members will...
About 50 people including the Minnesota Democratic Party's Civic Engagement Director and the Liberian Consul General in Minnesota, crowded the City of Falcon Heights Council Chambers on Wednesday for the swearing-in ceremony of Yakasah Wehyee, the city's first Liberian born Council member. The University of Minnesota’s St. Paul Campus and the sprawling Minnesota State Fair are located inside Falcon...
BROOKLYN PARK - Pastor Moses Punni clutched the evening's program and kept glancing at it a few times, listening intently Saturday night as fellow DED holders spoke during a hurriedly put together celebration by a coalition of groups, that included the Black Immigrant Collective, to celebrate President Trump's signing of legislation giving Liberians a pathway to citizenship.
All around him,...
Federal courts have temporarily blocked the public charge rule change from going into effect, but its chilling effects continue to reverberate. The number of immigrants who, fearing the consequences of the rule change, have taken or plan to take steps to drop out of public services for which they are eligible far exceeds the actual number who would be at risk if the rule ever...
I came to Congress on a promise of cogovernance. As your Congresswoman, I do not only want to represent Minnesotans, I want to govern with you. As my first year in office comes to a close, I wanted to take this opportunity to speak to you directly about the priorities I am focused on.
When I was sworn in this...
Thousands of Liberians across the United States can breathe a sigh of relief as the legislation allowing those on Deferred Enforced Departure to be eligible for permanent residency becomes law. Last night (December 20), President Trump signed the National Defense and Authorization Act for the 2020 fiscal year. The bill included language that allows for Liberian nationals living in...
Liberians who have been living in limbo under the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) were on Tuesday given an early Christmas gift of a pathway to citizenship when the U.S. Senate, in a near unanimous 86-6 vote, passed the National Defense Authorization Act where the provision for the pathway to citizenship had been tucked.
DED for Liberians which was first approved...
Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan last week announced 11 new members to serve on the Governor’s Council on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. Among those Governor Walz appointed to serve in planning the upcoming MLK holiday is Nigerian-American Dr. Fatima Lawson, a school principal at Saint Paul's Highwood Hills Elementary. This is Lawson's second gubernatorial...
