NORTH MANKATO — A diverse set of foreign languages are taught at area colleges, but until last month they didn't include one of the languages most frequently spoken in the region. Students in various ...

In Minnesota's Twin Cities, Jews and Somali immigrants have been partners for decades. When Somali refugees arrived in Minnesota, starting in 1993, Jewish leaders saw echoes of their forebears who ...

MINNEAPOLIS — It's a brisk fall morning at Lyndale Community School, and students arrive bundled in coats, wearing their backpacks. Many students arrive with their parents or walk, as many families ...

Safy-Hallan Farah wasn't seeing the words and images that reflected the bright, beautiful Somali people she knew. So she created 124 pages of them. Flipping through a digital proof of her new magazine ...

In this op-ed, Najma Sharif discusses culture site "Araweelo Abroad" and its importance to the Somali diaspora in an age of increased Black Muslim scrutiny. Queen Araweelo, an ancient Somali queen, is ...

Twenty years ago, Somali refugees arrived in America and landed in what might seem like an unlikely place: Minneapolis. Today, the Twin Cities are home to the largest Somali community in America. And ...

Minneapolis-based frozen sambusa brand Hoyo is named for the Somali word for "mother." Its founders started the business in part to provide jobs to Somali women. NINA MOINI: If you hadn't had lunch ...

In his Nieman prediction last year, writer and technologist Paul Ford talked about the need for news organizations to “go global.” He wrote: “A story performing well in one market could, theoretically ...

On any given Friday night, even in the bone-chilling cold, Abdirahman Mukhtar stands at an outdoor plaza in Minneapolis, offering young passersby free pizza and hot Somali tea thick with spices. His ...