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The California Dream Act, Part A (AB 130) was signed into law Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown during a town hall meeting in Los Angeles hosted by Democratic Assemblymember Gil Cedillo, who sponsored AB 130 and its companion bill AB 131.

What a thrill. What pride. What a show of skill and prowess by the U.S. women's national soccer team in the 2011 Women’s World Cup even as they lost in penalty shots to Japan on Sunday.

Despite the lack of comprehensive immigration reform, there is a glimmer of hope for the millions of undocumented youth living in the United States. On June 6, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a California law, “AB 540,” that allows undocumented students to attend state colleges and universities at in-state tuition rates. The Supreme Court’s refusal to examine the case means that California’s undocumented immigrant youth will continue to reap the benefits of reduced tuition in the state’s institutions of higher education.

At World Refugee Day, participants celebrate the cultures and traditions of the nearly 100,000 refugees who call Minnesota home.

Eh Taw Dwe calls himself a 7 year-old American.

An estimated 80 per cent of the world’s refugees now live in developing countries and yet anti-refugee sentiment is growing in many industrialized nations, the United Nations said in a report unveiled today, urging the richer States to address the deep imbalance.

Hopkins, Minnesota - At a breakfast meeting in June, Aoko Midiwo Odembo encouraged Kenyan women to pursue their dreams, participate in business enterprise and to offer each other support.

The Vice President of Liberia, Joseph Boakai, will Friday, June 17, pay a one-day working visit to Minnesota at the invitation of the African Career, Education & Resource, Inc. in conjunction with the Liberian Ministers Association, and the Organization of Liberians in Minnesota.

Saro Nkesi still finds it difficult to talk about the years before he finally left Nigeria.

“During the period of 1993 to 1995, I was always staying in the bush and dashed home to eat and went back to the bush again,” he said. “Sometimes I would stay with other friends who were not from Ogoni. It was a terrible time in my life.”

African countries should develop closer ties with both traditional and emerging partners, to boost sustainable and inclusive growth, according to a United Nations-backed report released today.

This spring, at a press conference on Capitol Hill, Tolu Olubunmi came out publicly as an undocumented immigrant for the first time.

Recipient of a standing ovation at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Oliver Schmitz’s Life, Above All is an occasionally affecting South African AIDS drama that is let down by a streak of shamelessly manipulative sentimentality.