Burnsville, Minn - Nimco Ahmed stood silently at the grave side of her late son, Mohamed Omar Hassan, 25. She prayed for a few minutes and then joined a group of women bussed to the Garden of Eden Islamic Cemetery in Burnsville, Minnesota. Ahmed, like most of the women gathered at the cemetery on a cloudy Saturday evening, lost...
The head of the Council for Minnesotans of African Heritage, Justin Terrell, sounded the alarm on Saturday about the lack of civic engagement by the African immigrant community. Repeating a common refrain "if you are not at the table you are on the menu," Terrell sent out an urgent appeal for the growing African immigrant community to be engaged...
Kenya Airways, which began daily direct flights between Nairobi and New York's JFK airport last October, but shortly dropped it to five days a week, is set to resume daily flights in June to take advantage of the busy summer travel season on the American side. The airline's CEO, Sebastian Mikosz had indicated a return to daily flights in...
If you have not yet had a chance to catch the Twin Cities First Lady of Afro-pop, Carolyne Naomi, live you can do so at a happy hour during a Meet & Greet of Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area African professionals on May 3. The annual event is hosted by the law firm of Paschal Nwokocha & Chukwu in collaboration...
Fifth congressional representative Ilhan Omar has faced death threats as well as inflammatory taunts from the president of the United States, but it seems to have emboldened supporters to come to her aid financially.
In the legally mandated requirement to file campaign finance reports for the first quarter of 2019 with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), Omar is among the...
When Mumbi Mwangi wrote her doctoral dissertation in 1998 she had advocacy on her mind. She went a step further to include letters in her dissertation calling on the African Union including the president of her nation, Kenya, to encourage them to create opportunities for African women to go to school.
Today, as professor of gender and women’s studies at...
The Trump administration which has been blocked by the courts in its attempts to restrict immigration based on race or religion is now exploring ways to achieve its goals by going after visa overstays, according to a Monday Wall Street Journal report.
The report says the administration plans to target countries with high visa overstays, a move that will impact...
Starting tomorrow (April 13) is the last day to catch some of the African films showing at the 38th annual Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. The festival, which started last week, ends April 20. There are seven African produced films showing at the festival. You can view the full list at this link.
Rafiki will screen for the last time...
There were a few things Virginia forward Mamadi Diakite had to do to have a shot in the world of basketball.
He had to listen to his dad. He had to stop kicking a ball around in his hometown of Conakry in the West African country of Guinea.
And after giving up soccer for a completely unfamiliar game, he had to...
Former president Barack Obama was among those who paid tribute to the late rapper and community activist, Nipsey Hussle, during his memorial service in Los Angeles yesterday. In a letter read on his behalf by the late lyricist’s business partner Karen Civil, Obama praised Hussle for his lasting legacy. Obama said he had never met Hussle but heard his...
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, which has a mission of eliminating poverty housing, has developed a new program to help first-time homebuyers who have faced barriers to buying a home through traditional mortgage lenders.
Under the program, homebuyers can buy on the open market using Habitat’s affordable, fixed-rate mortgage. They can even work with the Realtor of their choice, complete...
