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If you employ someone to work for you around your house, it is important to consider the tax implications of this arrangement. While many people disregard the need to pay taxes on household employees, they do so at the risk of stiff tax penalties. As you will see, these rules are quite complex, even for such a relatively minor employee, and a mistake can bring on tax headaches.

Dinkenesh’s living quarters on the second floor of the Houston Museum of Natural Science is part of a 9,000 square-foot abode befitting a guest of her stature.  Hers is a journey that began in antiquity in a site she might be unable to recognize or remember – a place we humans call Ethiopia.

Last Saturday night, the place to have beenwas the Blue Nile Restuarant.

When P.W Botha’s troopers were mercilessly chopping down innocent South African schoolchildren with machine-guns, cracking whips over the heads of peaceful demonstrators and unleashing vicious dogs on fleeing crowds, we Zimbabweans were undoubtedly enraged.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Illinois Sen. Barack Obama made history yesterday bybecoming the Democratic Party presidential nominee, making him thefirst African American ever to lead a major party into the U.S.presidential elections.

Maimah Karmo had one goal: To make sure her young daughter, Noelle, didn’t grow up motherless. Her next concern was whether she would live long enough tohelp others by telling her story.

It is the election year and here they go again – politicians – using the age-old “illegal alien” excuse to cover up their three-year fiestas and siestas in Washington, D.C.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Perhaps because of the stereotypes of high illiteracy associated with Africa, immigrants from the continent excelled in universities in the United States without anyone noticing. Then in 2007, “just out of curiosity,” Kefa M. Otiso,a Kenyan-born professor of Geography at Bowling Green State Universityin Ohio, started looking at African immigrant data from the 2000 U.S.census.

MINNEAPOLIS – Hundreds of people gathered at Minnehaha ParkSunday May 18 in support of the Minnesota AIDS walk.

Expecting a baby is a happy experience, but it can also be a bit frightening and overwhelming. Mary, a recent arrival from Africa, is worried about her co-worker, Helen. Like Mary, Helen lived through a civil war in her home country and is now settled in the United States.