Winnie Byanyima is the new executive director of UNAIDS, the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS that leads and inspires the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths. Ms Byanyima has more than 30 years of experience in political leadership, diplomacy and humanitarian engagement.
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres,...
From the Democratic Republic of the Congo, roughly the size of Alaska, hales a band with a sound to match the size of their country. KOKOKO!, formed only three years ago, will heat up the stage at The Cedar Cultural Center September 20th.
Serendipity pulled them from various locations to Kinshasa in 2016. Electronic artist Débruit was in town working...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (Mshale) - The annual Little Africa Festival returned this past weekend, expanding the celebration into a two-day event. It is organized by African Economic Development Solutions (AEDS), a community development organization that promotes African business development and home ownership within the African community. To kick off the festival, organizers debuted an African Day parade on Saturday...
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (Mshale) - Minnesota’s state Democratic party chair, Ken Martin, held a roundtable discussion on July 26 with a dozen leaders and community organizers from the African immigrant community. The objective of the round table was to initiate dialogue as well as strengthen relationships and partnerships with what has become an important voting bloc as the once...
Uplifted Care Services, a home healthcare agency based in Brooklyn Park, announced its sponsorship of the African Awards at the Silver Level on Thursday, making the company the first US based African-owned company to ever join at that level in the 8-year history of the Awards. The company joins major corporations like Target and Comcast in the top-tier brackets...
Rep. Omar Introduces Congressional App Challenge
As part of the opening weekend for the city of Minneapolis’ first Black Business Week, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar led a two-hour panel discussion on Sunday in the Gold Room Restaurant and Lounge. The discussion featured three young black leaders that are acting as agents of change in the tech industry. Software engineer and...
When you first meet Kenyan Muthoni Ndonga, A.K.A. Muthoni Drummer Queen (or MDQ, for short), you do feel like you are in the presence of a queen – a queen with a lot on her mind, a lot to attend to and a lot she desires to accomplish during her reign. She is smart, funny, self-confident, full of energy...
MINNEAPOLIS (Mshale) - Loring Park was host to the annual Twin Cities World Refugee Day on Sunday. Held each July, the event is a time Minnesota community celebrates its diverse cultures, honoring individuals who came to the United States as refugees.
Minnesota is home to over one hundred thousand refugees. The United Nations defines a refugee as someone who has...
Minneapolis was host to the 2019 Toyoyo Soccer tournament, dubbed as the largest soccer tournament in the Kenyan diaspora. Dallas, the reigning champions coming into the 2019 tournament, successfully defended its title when it beat Kansas City in the championship game 1-0.
A quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, a collection of essays he penned before his assassination reads “The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes...
BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (Mshale) - Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Penny Flanagan addressed over 300 members of the African community on Saturday, just six months since taking office and the earliest a new administration has met with the community. Past governors, it was noted at the meeting, wait until election time to hastily arrange one, if at all.
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