The recent elimination of the USDA’s Local Food Purchasing Assistance program is forcing immigrant farmers in Maine and the ...

News reporter Jay Rey recently wrote about a Somali Bantu family's journey to Buffalo. Nearly 12,000 Bantu -- an ethnic group distinct from other Somalis -- will be resettled in cities across the ...

Somali refugees come here unfamiliar with American gang and gun culture, coupled with cultural and language barriers, said Fatuma Bulle, founder of the Somali Bantu Diverse Center, an organization ...

Somali Americans experience a unique threat as an at-risk youth in Columbus' most dangerous neighborhoods. Three young men share their stories.

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The Breaking Barriers Award goes to a 2024 Business Leader of the Year who helped grow the Somali Bantu Community Association from a seedling group to a thriving collaboration of New American farmers.

Neighborhood Athletics, a volunteer-run nonprofit, offers sports and academic programming for youth on Columbus' West Side.

A Somali refugee-led urban farm in Pittsburgh expanded in the last few years to include a goat farm about an hour north of the city in Mercer County.

After a brief stay in Dallas, they settled in Lewiston, Maine, in 2005, where a small number of Somali Bantu had recently arrived in the 95 percent white community. The United States recognized the ...

Liberation Farms supports Somali Bantu refugee farmers to develop viable farm businesses. Its mission: food justice, community building, and education in the form of “inter-cultural and inter ...

Bantu refugees began arriving in the city from camps along the Somali border in the early 2000s. Members of the community started the Mwanakuche Farm.

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 ...