Somali

Asma Jama was out to dinner with her family at an Applebee's in Coon Rapids, Minn., in October 2015, when a woman seated nearby starting getting angry. Why? Jama, who is Somali-American and Muslim, was speaking Swahili and wearing a hijab. The woman, Jodie Bruchard-Risch,...

The Minnesota state rep. is a refugee and the first Somali-American Muslim legislator, so the travel ban's personal Few people in the United States can relate to the plight of foreign refugees. But one politician knows just how devastating President Trump’s moratorium on refugees can be....

"You are a powerful reminder of why this country is so great," he said of his hosts.  By Tim Harlow Star Tribune Flanked by Somali women in their Hijab, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg marked the end of the holy month of Ramadan by eating...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Disturbing video has been released of a man being attacked at gunpoint outside a local mosque Sunday morning. Memphis Police Department is now investigating the aggravated assault. >> PHOTOS: Man attacked at gunpoint outside local mosque caught on camera The incident happened in the 3500...

BURNSVILLE, Minn. – At Gideon Pond Elementary, the morning greeting is delivered by the principal. “Make a positive choice,” Chris Bellmont counsels his students over the school public address system. The principal may deliver the message, but a 23-year-old teachers’ aide makes it stick. “He is the...

By Susan Svrluga One morning early in his freshman year at Cornell University, Ahmed Ahmed got a writing assignment back, flipped it over and stared at the letter in shock: C+. He went to his biology class, where the professor displayed a large graph showing the...

By:Sarah Barker   How My Daily Commute as a 20-Something White Woman Taught Me About the National Political Situation Most Twin Cities high school cross country and track teams have Somali students on the roster. Some of these prep runners have gone on to successful college and...

The Peninsula-The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) recently sponsored ‘Shida’, the Fourth Annual Forum of the Somali Community in Qatar, organised by Weyak, a Doha-based voluntary organisation that works to foster understanding of mental health issues with outreach activities both regionally and within...

Anthony Sawina targeted group in Minnesota as they headed to prayers, wounding two, after threatening to 'kill all'. A jury has convicted a white man of attempted murder for shooting and wounding two Somali-American men who were on their way to Ramadan prayers in Minneapolis...

By Samuel Chamberlain Minnesota health officials said Monday that Somali families in the state had been "targeted with misinformation" about vaccines as the number of measles cases neared 50. The Minnesota Department of Health had confirmed 48 measles cases Monday, 46 of them in children under...