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Celebrating its fifth year, the Minnesota African Women Association (MAWA) treated guests to a taste of African food, music and dance. An all day event, the anniversary celebrated the African woman in Minnesota and her continued growth in her new home.

Over fifty years ago when the decision from Brown v Board of Education was announced there was much optimism that it would help create an education system grounded in equal access to quality education for all students – no matter of color, economic status or geographic location.

How do you feel when you encounter a Muslim for the first time? Do you ever find yourself wondering why and how they got to the U.S.? What mental picture occurs in the back of your mind? Is it terrorism, suicide bombings, Iraq, Afghanistan, bin Laden, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, etc.?

Employees often grumble about their "use it or lose it" health plans. In this article we'll give you some alternatives to consider.

It’s Africa’s Time!

Just the theme alone made one not want to miss out.

The excitement was palpable.
Most of us had been following the two men’s teachings on several television channels.

Call these men Flamboyant, Charismatic, Prosperity or even Clairvoyant Preachers, they draw the crowds.

Put these two men of God together at one conference and you have a dynamic synergy.

The U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) announced recently that new filing fees will apply to most immigration benefit applications and petitions postmarked or received on or after July 30, 2007. Most filing fees will skyrocket by an average of 60 percent or more than double the current fees.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama held a fundraising drive in Minneapolis on Friday June 29th at the International Market Square.

Harvard Law School graduate Olara A. Otunnu LL.M. '78 is the newest recipient of the prestigious Harvard Law School Association Award. The award was presented by Dean Elena Kagan ’86 and Harvard Law School Association President Jay H. Hebert ’86 on June 15 at the Worldwide Alumni Congress, held this year in Washington DC.

On Friday June 15th, the first annual Shades of Diversity Juneteenth VIP Dinner & Fashion Show was held in Downtown Minneapolis, MN. A party, you say? A professional Juneteenth celebration? I had to check this out for myself so I threw-on a nice outfit and headed to the 601 Graves Hotel.

South Africa's Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) was named Africa's best stock exchange, New York-based Citigroup as Africa's best investment bank, and Kenya Commercial Bank as the continent's top performing company at the 2007 Africa Investor Index Awards ceremony at the London Stock Exchange last week.

The Minnesota Women's Political Caucus on Monday announced the hiring of Keesha Gaskins as its executive director. The formal announcemnt comes exactly a week before the Caucus holds its Founding Feminist Festival on June 25. The festival will honor among others, Nimco Ahmed, a Somali native, as a "Woman to Watch".