GRANBY - A celebration of Somali Bantu culture and traditions is scheduled to be held in Granby Saturday. The event has been organized by the Somali Bantu Community Organization of Springfield, a ...

Syracuse, NY.-----The Somali Bantu community has created a tutoring program to teach adults English and help their children with homework. The class meets on Saturday mornings at Dr. Martin Luther ...

EAST AURORA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Western New York is home to refugees from all over the world who left their home countries to find better lives here. For many, that means adapting to a whole new way of ...

When Jeylani Noor moved to the United States in 2004, he spoke only a few words of English. The native of Somalia, then 16, had difficulty understanding his classmates and teachers in school. But now ...

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 ...

You can feel the tension in Lewiston, Maine. The working class city has faced closed textile mills, factories moving overseas and new immigrants, some in traditional Muslim dress, bumping up against ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. Haji, left, arriving in Vermont in 2003 Credit ...

GRANBY - Red Fire Farm celebrated Somali Bantu culture on Saturday in recognition of its workers, some of whom are refugees from the east African nation. The event served as an open house for the ...

Binti Abdullahi’s biggest dream is to start her own clothing line. She and her peers “don’t want to dress how our grandmother … and mother [are] dressed,” said the 23-year-old Somali Bantu woman.

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 ...

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.