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

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

The Minneapolis mayor during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests has lost the backing of the Democratic party to a ...

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.

The same is true for a half dozen Somali-Americans whose names will appear on an election ballot in Minnesota this year, including two other candidates vying for the same District 62A state House ...

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 ...

Senior U.S. counterterrorism officials are stepping up warnings that Islamist extremists in Somalia are radicalizing Americans to their cause, citing their recruitment of the first U.S. citizen ...

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.

Bihi suspects that Burhan was killed by his Shabab allies because he wanted out of Somalia. But he will never know for sure. Burhan is one of more than two dozen Somalis between the ages of 17 and ...

It’s a party at this large banquet hall in Columbus, Ohio, with at least a thousand people packed in. Women wear dresses and headscarves in light blue and white, the colors of the Somali flag, and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It’s a busy Friday afternoon at a Somali restaurant on the northeast side of Columbus, home to second-largest Somali population in the United States. The smell of … ...