Omar Fateh, 35, a Minnesota state Senator, won the endorsement of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party for Minneapolis mayor ...

So much for gratitude. Rep. Mana Abdi, a Democratic state representative for Maine, likened her immigration experience to the United States to a “bootcamp.” With assimilation already […] ...

Party, Minnesota’s branch of the US Democratic Party, held its Minneapolis convention to decide who it would endorse for ...

The Department of Homeland Security highlighted Maine state Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D), commenting on her goal of helping “our country of Somalia.” A Somali refugee who came […] ...

Prosecutors say 29-year old Derrick Thompson was driving over 100 miles an hour when he exited 35W at Lake Street and ...

Somali Americans have also been elected to city councils, school boards and, in Minnesota, legislative seats and Congress. The growing political clout corresponds with growing numbers.

In Cedar-Riverside, where 20,000 refugees from Somalia began to settle in the 1990s, Warsame grew up in two worlds: a first-generation American caught between his Somali heritage and daily life in ...

Some experts in the U.S. say Somali-American young people are at greater risk of religious radicalization. Host Michel Martin speaks with homeland security advisor Mohamed Elibiary, and Mark ...

Somali Americans experience a unique threat as an at-risk youth in Columbus' most dangerous neighborhoods. Three young men share their stories.