In 2015, I penned an article for the Pioneer Press titled, “Somalis are resilient Americans, not terrorists.” At the time, Minnesota’s Somali community was facing a wave of politically motivated ...

Americans were stunned last month to learn that members of Minnesota’s Somali community had scammed state taxpayers out of hundreds of millions — possibly even billions — of dollars. The question on ...

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Columbus is home to the second-largest community of Somali residents behind Minnesota. President Trump made headlines recently for his offensive comments about Somalis, calling them “garbage” and ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A US citizen, who is Somali, was detained by immigration agents in Minneapolis on ...

The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis is divorced from the downtown area by a tangle of highway overpasses, and as it turns out, it’s the perfect place for Somali immigrants in Minnesota to ...

A Vermont school district has sparked national outrage after district leaders raised the flag of Somalia on campus. The Winooski School District — located just outside Burlington, where roughly 9% of ...

Minnesota’s large Somali community is fearful after President Donald Trump intensified his criticism of the community in recent days and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched an operation ...

President Donald Trump has been crashing out over Somali Americans for several days now. Instead of earnestly calling out the president’s racist, xenophobic tirades, some in the community have decided ...

LEWISTON, Maine — Saleh Mahamud, an imam in this mid-Maine city, finished his noontime prayers and pointed to a rear window and door in a mosque that serves the religious needs of Lewiston’s large ...