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The Minnesota man being sought in connection with the Saturday morning assassination of a state lawmaker and the shooting of another runs a security company and has ties to the Middle East and Africa, online biographies showed. Vance Luther Boelter lists himself on LinkedIn as the CEO of the Red Lion Group, which is based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He also worked with Minnesota Africans United, a statewide organization working with African immigrants in the state, according to a now deleted biography on the group’s web site. In 2022, Boelter participated as a keynote speaker in his capacity...

Najima and Nayaba Bawa were despondent when their parents first raised the subject of sending them home to Ghana. It was three years ago, one evening as their mother was braiding Nayaba's hair. Najima, then in junior high, had lost focus in school. Hanging out with friends had become more important than studying. She had even brought home a few C's on her report card. They had reached a decision, the girls' parents calmly informed them. They were sending them to the Akosombo International School, a boarding school in the eastern Ghananian town of Akosombo, about 80 kilometers, or 50...

Black Immigrants Earn More Than U.S. Blacks Black immigrants from Africa or the Caribbean fare better economically than their African American counterparts according to latest census figures in the San Francisco-based Sun Reporter. The typical black immigrant earned $7,000 a year more than the average African American in 2000, who made $33,500 – the lowest of any U.S. ethnic group. Additionally, the unemployment rate was 5.1 percent for black immigrants compared with 10.2 percent for black Americans. This is compared with 3.9 percent unemployment for whites and 4.7 percent for Asians. Harvard sociologist Mary Waters said many employers favor immigrants...