Community members gathered for a solidarity standout Tuesday evening to show support for local Somali Bantu residents ...

A rally was held in Springfield on Tuesday night to support the Somali Bantu community in response to comments made by ...

Murals, and public art in general, are a great way to broadcast messages to the community. Rather than erecting ugly billboards that are relentlessly “in our face,” broadcasting car accident and slip ...

The Somali Bantu Community Association of Pittsburgh estimates there are 800 to 1,000 Somali people living in Pittsburgh, the ...

There are many things that separate Hawa Juma, a 25-year-old Utica resident and first generation Somali Bantu, from her parents, who arrived in Utica in the early 2000s to escape the country's war.

The Somali Bantu community in Pittsburgh is small but organized. Refugees began arriving in the city from camps along the Somali border in the early 2000s. Members of the community started the ...

A fire at a housing complex in Burlington late Saturday morning and a fatal car crash about two hours later have shocked the local Somali and Somali Bantu communities. The tragedies, both involving ...

WALES, Maine — Seventy-two-year-old Ahmed Baraki leans forward, his back parallel to the ground, and vigorously rakes his “yaanbo,” or hoe, loosening the weeds that cluster around the young cabbage ...

Not all of the Somali refugees who've come to Maine in the past few years share the same culture. About 500 of them belong to a group of rural farmers who were persecuted as second-class citizens in ...

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Bashir Ahmed has just one memory about moving into his family's new Columbus apartment 16 years ago: the sounds of police sirens and gunfire. A new American arrival, then-8-year-old Bashir wondered if ...

When Jeylani Noor moved to the United States in 2004, he spoke only a few words of English. The native of Somalia, then 16, had difficulty understanding his classmates and teachers in school. But now ...