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 ...

Minnesota state Sen. Omar Fateh received the DFL party endorsement for Minneapolis mayor on Saturday, while incumbent Jacob ...

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.

In Cedar-Riverside, where 20,000 refugees from Somalia began to settle in the 1990s, Warsame grew up in two worlds: a first-generation American caught between his Somali heritage and daily life in ...

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 ...

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 … ...