Dozens of Brooklyn Park residents last evening crammed into city council chambers to witness history being made in Minnesota’s sixth largest city, the swearing in of the city's first black council member, Wynfred Russell, who was born and raised in Liberia.
Russell, a former instructor at the University of Minnesota, defeated former council member Bob Mata by garnering a convincing...
As a parent, you do everything you can to keep your child healthy. Keeping your child healthy starts before they are born by doing things to have a healthy pregnancy. You take vitamins, avoid things that can harm your unborn baby, and make sure you get exercise and plenty of rest. Getting the whooping cough vaccine (called Tdap) is...
Ilhan Omar who won Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District in the November midterms was sworn in yesterday to become the first black person born in the African continent to serve in the United States Congress.
Afterwards at a community celebration that featured K'naan, she gave the following powerful speech below. Her speech begins at 17:00.
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Erik Barmack, Netflix's vice president of international originals has announced that in 2019 the streaming giant will order original series from Africa to add to its international originals list that includes titles from Europe, Asia and Latin America.
More and more Netflix subscribers are watching non-English-language fare every month, he said.
“The big message we want to communicate to talent is...
Minnesota legislators are getting ready for the 2019 legislative session referred to as the 2019-20 biennium. In the Minnesota House, the Democrats took control while the Senate, which was not on the ballot in November, remained in Republican hands by a one seat majority.
The convincing Democratic takeover of the Minnesota House
also saw a net gain for Somali-Americans as they...
The Immigration Court backlog continues to rise. As of November 30, 2018, the number of pending cases on the court's active docket topped eight-hundred thousand (809,041) cases. This is almost a fifty percent (49.1%) increase compared to the 542,411 cases pending at the end of January 2017 when President Trump took office. This figure does not include the additional...
Congresswoman-elect Ilhan Omar on Thursday announced her five-person leadership team for her Washington office and Minnesota District office. Last month's midterms saw Omar become the first black person born in Africa to be elected to the US Congress.
Omar's picks included that of chief of staff, local district
office director, local deputy district director, legislative director and a
communications director that will...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday announced the shortlists for nine Oscar categories. This is the first time the Academy has released all of its shortlists on the same day. Among those making the shortlist is the acclaimed Black Panther movie which made the shortlist in three categories; visual effects, makeup and hair styling.
Black Panther...
Donald Trump’s administration has unveiled its policy towards Africa, which it says will counter the growing influence of its geopolitical rivals, China and Russia, on the continent. John Bolton, Trump’s assistant for National Security Affairs outlined the “New Africa Strategy” on Thursday December 13, in a speech to an audience of NGOs leaders, policy experts, business representatives and diplomats...
Abdisalam Adam, an assistant principal at Highland Park High School in the St. Paul Public Schools and a Doctor of Education candidate at Bethel University was on Wednesday unanimously voted in by the Fridley School Board to serve on its board. Adam will complete the remainder of another board member, Kim Sampson, who resigned effective December 31 due to...
Apple this week released its first ever A-list of African music. The 49-song list is a hit list of music popular in the continent with all of the songs collectively getting millions of views on YouTube.
The list includes Sho Madjozi's Wakanda Forever.
The country with the most songs is Nigeria which collectively has 19, followed by Ghana at 13. South...
