Somali men wearing everything from crisp suits to sweatshirts stood across the room from a row of women, who had wrapped themselves in colorful variations of the more traditional shaal. One by one, ...

Syracuse, NY.----Two years ago, a dispute between African refugee children and other black children who ride a bus home from H.W. Smith Elementary School prompted school officials to send them home on ...

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.

Fatuma Muya, a member of the Pittsburgh Somali community, speaks at a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, after a Somali Bantu man was beaten in Beltzhoover. A member of the Somali Bantu ...