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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 the nation-state of Somalia collapsed into a series of warring fiefdoms in the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of civilians fled for their lives. Some have since returned home, but many are ...

You're a young teenager. Your country has erupted into civil war, There's fighting, violence, genocide, enslavement, and you witness unspeakable horror. You make it to a faraway refugee camp, but may ...

Two Somali Bantu political refugees were released from federal immigration detention over the weekend, after spending months in jail for their failure to apply for their legal alien resident card.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden looks at preparations in the United States for the arrival of Bantu refugees. The Bantu, whose ancestors were slaves in Somalia, are discriminated against there. The United ...

Washington is home to one of the largest Somali populations on the West Coast, concentrated in South Seattle, Tukwila, SeaTac ...