No more. We will not stand for injustices.” Those were the words of state Sen. Adam Gomez on Dec. 9 as he, his fellow ...

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 ...

Ahmed Baraki works in the community garden at Liberation Farms in Wales, Maine.VINCENT ALBAN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE WALES, Maine — Seventy-two-year-old Ahmed Baraki leans forward, his back parallel to ...

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.

Abdikadir Mberwa watches over goats at Mwanakuche Farm in Mercer County. Goats are raised and slaughtered in accordance with Islamic principals. A Somali Bantu refugee-led urban farm in Pittsburgh has ...

When the nation-state of Somalia collapsed into a series of warring fiefdoms in the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of civilians fled for their lives. Some have since returned home, but many are ...

A Somali refugee in Maine is helping to create the first dictionary for his language. His effort would help preserve the Bantu culture.

It's 6 p.m. Tuesday in the gym at Sullivant Elementary School, on Columbus' West Side, and kids are darting and weaving between one another, their sneakers screeching up and down the basketball court.