A fire at a housing complex in Burlington late Saturday morning and a fatal car crash about two hours later have shocked the local Somali and Somali Bantu communities. The tragedies, both involving ...

Murals, and public art in general, are a great way to broadcast messages to the community. Rather than erecting ugly billboards that are relentlessly “in our face,” broadcasting car accident and slip ...

Open a door at Terrace Apartments, and the first thing to hit you is the smell of simmering rice. A Somali Bantu refugee cooks dinner for her white neighbor, who is baby-sitting a Liberian boy from ...

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 ...

WALES, Maine — Seventy-two-year-old Ahmed Baraki leans forward, his back parallel to the ground, and vigorously rakes his “yaanbo,” or hoe, loosening the weeds that cluster around the young cabbage ...

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 ...

Their journey was arduous, but their dream survived. Today, that dream has come true in Maine where Thanksgiving tables will be plentiful with local sweet potatoes, apples, squash, and other holiday ...

(Columbia) Feb. 24, 2004 - The first Somali Bantu refugee to arrive in Columbia, Abdulkadir Mohamed, will have a lot of adjusting to do now that he's arrived. Lutheran Family Services is overseeing ...

CHOGO, Tanzania, June 3 (UNHCR) - Some 300 years after their ancestors were taken from here to be sold as slaves, almost 1,300 Somali Bantu refugees are now full citizens of Tanzania. A further 1,500 ...

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.