UN General Assembly
2025

District Court for the Central District of California. She is the first black female judge on any of California's four federal district courts. She was born here in America to immigrant parents from Ghana. We speak of Peter Bosman, a medical doctor in Ghana, who moved to the town of Piran in Slovenia in the 1980s and later became the first black mayor of Piran, the first black mayor in Slovenia and in the whole of Eastern Europe. We speak of T. Michael, the iconic Ghanaian-Norwegian artist and designer. And of course, we speak of the late Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary-General. Former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize recipient who was born in Ghana but spent his adulthood in various places in America and Europe. These are people who have brought great distinction to the countries that they decided to call home, just as the migrants and the children of migrants before them did. I dare say these are not invaders. These are not criminals.