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VICE
February 19, 2018
VICE caught up with Safy over the phone to talk about her inspirations, growing up Somali-American in Minnesota, and Somali futurism. VICE: Why did you title the zine 1991? Safy Hallan Farah: I didn't want people to project onto the name. I also didn't want to marginalize the project by giving it an obscureÃÂ ...
City Pages
February 14, 2018
Last Tuesday, the day of Minnesota's political party caucuses, anti-Islamic fliers signed by “your neighborhood infidel" appeared throughout Minneapolis's Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood, which has a high concentration of Somali-Americans. 0. The typo-ridden fliers read that a new “MEGA-MN organiationÃÂ ...
gomn.com
February 7, 2018
A spelling error-riddled flyer warning "barberic muslims" ahead of Tuesday's precinct caucuses were distributed in Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. A copy of the flyer was shared on Twitter by Rep. Ilhan Omar, America's first Somali-American politician who represents the 60B Minnesota HouseÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
February 3, 2018
Last year's outbreak hit the state's Somali-American community hard — a group that has been targeted by anti-vaccine groups, which continue to spread the scientifically debunked falsehood that the shots cause autism. The current exemption allowed for "philosophical" reasons should be scrapped.
Mshale African Community Newspaper
February 2, 2018
The six included four Somali-Americans that have declared for the same seat, a record number in the 22 years that Mshale has covered the state's African immigrant community. Four of the candidates at the forum were Somali-American and a fifth that was expected and had his nametag already waiting forÃÂ ...
ABC News
February 2, 2018
Afro Deli: "With more Somalis outside of Africa -- Minnesota elected its first Somali-American female legislator Ilhan Omar -- it's no surprise Minneapolis boasts some true gems in Somali cuisine. A gateway to Somali cuisine is Afro Deli, with its fast service and affordable selections from sambusas to keke.
MinnPost
February 1, 2018
In 2015, the Minneapolis-based KALY Somali-American Radio, a low-power FM station, joined the airwaves to provide Somali-Americans with around-the-clock news and music programming. And in 2014, the online news operation Tusmo Times added a 5,000-circulation newspaper that is now distributed in Somali-ownedÃÂ ...
Democracy Now!
February 1, 2018
Joining us now, Minnesota state Representative Ilhan Omar, former refugee, Muslim, the highest-elected Somali-American public official in the United States. You were in Washington, D.C., from Minnesota, to attend one of the alternative State of the Unions, Ilhan Omar. Can you respond to what PresidentÃÂ ...
OregonLive.com
January 18, 2018
One victim also said that in her Somali-American community, girls and women were made to feel like they couldn't speak out against men. The four-day trial opened a rare window into this maelstrom of emotions as Noor's crimes and the vigorous campaign to cover them up were aired in open court.
MinnPost
January 18, 2018
In Minnesota, home to the largest Somali-American community in the U.S., Somalis who don't remember Somalia — or have never been there — strike a balance between old and new. ... In a more private way, Somali-Americans today are also navigating what is culturally acceptable within the community.
The Guardian
January 4, 2018
Yusuf had pleaded guilty to supporting a foreign terrorist organization and had testified against friends in a major trial of a group of Somali American Isis converts in 2016 in Minneapolis. Others who admitted wrongdoing and turned state's evidence got lengthy prison terms. Only Yusuf has been deemedÃÂ ...
ThisWeek Community News
January 2, 2018
Omar Hassan, director of the Somali Community Association of Ohio, said the Somali community is proud of Mohamad, but he doesn't think he's the first in Ohio. There have been others, Hassan said, specifically mentioning Hodan Siad, a Somali-American from Columbus who graduated from the UniversityÃÂ ...
The Columbus Dispatch
December 26, 2017
He is running for the Ohio House in the 25th District, challenging Rep. Bernadine Kennedy Kent, D-Columbus. If elected, Ismail would become the nation's second Somali-American state lawmaker, following 34-year-old Ilhan Omar of Minneapolis, who took office in January. Ismail's road to the Ohio Bar wasÃÂ ...
ABC6OnYourSide.com
December 26, 2017
Ismail Mohamed is running to become the first Somali-American elected in Ohio history. (WSYX/WTTE) ... A Somali-American lawyer launched a campaign for the Ohio House in what he hopes will be a milestone for his community. ... Mohamed said he hopes to pave the way for future Somali-Americans. "It always takes thatÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
December 25, 2017
MINNEAPOLIS – Minneapolis police have removed a memorial that a white nationalist group created to honor an Australian woman killed by a Somali-American officer last summer. Police spokesman John Elder told Minnesota Public Radio News an officer cleared the memorial when the departmentÃÂ ...
The GroundTruth Project (blog)
December 12, 2017
Still, this year, a third of the 17 farmers are Somali-American. Abdirizak Bihi, a Somali community organizer, featured Naima Dhore on his KFAI radio show. He says employment opportunities are lacking in the community, but Somali-Americans are entrepreneurs. “Everyone is selling something or everyoneÃÂ ...
YES! Magazine
December 10, 2017
There's a definite need for it in the Somali American community and in minority communities across America. Minnesota's 40,000 Somali Americans are a politically active group, organizing around Trump's Muslim travel ban, anti-refugee violence, and partnering with BLM in the Twin Cities for racial justice.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 7, 2017
Members of the club also sent private chat messages among themselves that contained disparaging remarks about other students, including Somali-Americans. Those were made public in a YouTube video from an Edina High “anti-fascist” group, which demanded an apology. Afterward, school leadersÃÂ ...
Voice of America
November 8, 2017
At least six Somali-American candidates who were running for various offices, including Noor, lost elections. Last year, Somali-Americans celebrated their biggest political victory when Ilhan Omar, a former refugee and a Muslim, won a seat in the Minnesota state legislature. VOA's Mohamud MascadeÃÂ ...
ABC News
October 25, 2017
Among those killed in the Oct. 14 bombing were Somali-Americans like Eyow. After fleeing as ... He settled in the Somali-American community in Minnesota, where he met and married Abdi. ... Like many Somali-Americans, Eyow never forgot where he came from or stopped trying to help the people there.
Newsweek
October 17, 2017
At least two Somali-Americans were reportedly among the more than 300 people killed in a double truck bombing in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday. Mohamoud Elmi, a Somali-American in his early 30s from Ohio, and Ahmed Abdi Karin Eyow—a 50-year-old father of three from Minnesota—haveÃÂ ...
The Guardian
August 3, 2017
On the one hand, homophobia and transphobia plague the Somali-American community. On the other hand, xenophobia, Islamophobia and racism are deeply rooted in Minnesota's largely white LGBTQ community. I recently sat down with six Somali-Americans who identify as LGBTQ to hear about whatÃÂ ...
MinnPost
December 31, 1999
... of America was fixated on downtown Minneapolis and the Super Bowl, a group of Somali-American and African-American actors quietly milled about the ... Not only does the play detail Yusuf's immigration tale, it tells the story of what many Somalians and Somali-Americans have faced coming to AmericaÃÂ ...
The Columbus Dispatch
December 26, 2017
If elected, Ismail would become the nation's second Somali-American state lawmaker, following 34-year-old Ilhan Omar of Minneapolis, who took office in January. Ismail's road to the Ohio Bar was not an easy one. Violence first pushed his family out of the Somali capital of Mogadishu, and then, as civil warÃÂ ...
ABC6OnYourSide.com
December 26, 2017
Mohamed said he hopes to pave the way for future Somali-Americans. "It always takes that first person to try something for others to see that as an example and try it as well," he said. Mohamed will run as a Democrat for the 25th House district on the north side of Columbus. Representative Bernadine Kennedy Kent is aÃÂ ...
Salon
December 25, 2017
Staffers bought a blue flag with a white star in the middle and they told me that I was a Somali-American. In a way, this restored the dimmed identity of my fractured life. The school exposed me to books: "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway, "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "TheÃÂ ...
YES! Magazine
December 10, 2017
There's a definite need for it in the Somali American community and in minority communities across America. Minnesota's 40,000 Somali Americans are a politically active group, organizing around Trump's Muslim travel ban, anti-refugee violence, and partnering with BLM in the Twin Cities for racial justice.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 8, 2017
Ilhan Omar, who would become the Senate's first Somali-American member. Several current candidates for governor might also reconsider and run for Franken's seat, including U.S. Rep. Tim Walz or St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. Attorney General Lori Swanson, also widely believed to be considering aÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 7, 2017
Members of the club also sent private chat messages among themselves that contained disparaging remarks about other students, including Somali-Americans. Those were made public in a YouTube video from an Edina High “anti-fascist” group, which demanded an apology. Afterward, school leadersÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
November 29, 2017
Sure, it's only to the Tukwila City Council, a part-time gig in a town of 20,000. But Idan's election this month is historic. It makes him the only Somali-refugee officeholder in Washington state, he says. And he's believed to be one of just five Somali-American officeholders in the United States (the other four areÃÂ ...
WBUR
November 21, 2017
In a church basement in Roxbury, a group of immigrants discuss the documentaries they're learning how to film. Guiding them are volunteers with the nonprofit Community Supported Film. "It's incredible to be in a room with 10 people from 10 different cultures, 10 different countries, different religions,ÃÂ ...
SW News Media
November 16, 2017
Fartun Ahmed won a seat on the Hopkins School Board Tuesday, Nov. 7, along with Chris LaTondresse and Jen Westmoreland-Bouchard. photo by lara bockenstedt. Ahmed 2. Buy Now. Ahmed said over 50 people from the Somali community gathered at Unmapped Brewery the night of the election toÃÂ ...
Daily Maverick
November 12, 2017
On the same day that Trump was elected president in 2016, Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American and former refugee who first came to the United States as a 12-year-old, was elected to Congress in the House of Representatives – the first Somali to do so. But the political success of Somali-Americans didn't startÃÂ ...
Voice of America
November 8, 2017
At least six Somali-American candidates who were running for various offices, including Noor, lost elections. Last year, Somali-Americans celebrated their biggest political victory when Ilhan Omar, a former refugee and a Muslim, won a seat in the Minnesota state legislature. VOA's Mohamud MascadeÃÂ ...
KARE
November 8, 2017
These Somali Americans hold a passion to vote because they know, more than many of us born in the U.S. know what it means to be able to do ...
Vox
October 26, 2017
... with 79 cases, most of them Somali-American children in Minneapolis. ... are linked to autism — began targeting local Somali Americans who ...
Minnesota Public Radio News
October 26, 2017
Dhore is the first Somali-American farmer to receive certification to grow organic produce in the state of Minnesota. Brittany Greeson for the ...
ABC News
October 25, 2017
Among those killed in the Oct. 14 bombing were Somali-Americans ... He settled in the Somali-American community in Minnesota, where he ...
WOSU
October 23, 2017
Ismal says that as one of the largest Somali-American communities in the county, people here have been quick to respond to the Mogadishu ...
Albert Lea Tribune
October 22, 2017
Minnesota's Somali-American community is banding together to raise money to help victims of the bombings in Mogadishu last weekend that ...
Minnesota Public Radio News
October 20, 2017
Minnesota's Somali-American community is banding together to raise money to help victims of the bombings in Mogadishu last weekend that ...
WJON News
October 18, 2017
Somali Americans Hudda Ibrahim and Abdi Mahad joined me on WJON today. They answered questions and responded to comment from ...
Newsweek
October 17, 2017
Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American to be elected as a U.S. lawmaker, attended the vigil. Omar's husband was in Mogadishu when the bombs ...
Minnesota Public Radio News
October 15, 2017
A Somali-American man from Minnesota said he witnessed Saturday's deadly truck bombing in Mogadishu. The death toll from the blast in ...
The Guardian
July 24, 2017
Local law enforcement sources identify Mohamed Noor, one of few Somali-Americans on Minneapolis force, as officer who opened fire on Australian woman. Read more. Damond called 911 last Saturday after hearing a woman's screams and fearing a sexual assault was taking place near her house.
KMSP-TV
December 31, 1999
Ellison's district contains the largest community of Somali-Americans in the country, many of whom he says have contacted his office to "express grave concern" over the incident. He's now calling for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to submit a detailed account of the two days in question--Dec.
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
September 16, 2017
One year after a Somali-American man went on a stabbing attack at a St. Cloud mall, injuring 10 people, city leaders say fears that the attackÃÂ ...
Al-Arabiya
September 16, 2017
The Somali-American teen made headlines as the first hijab- and burkini-sporting contestant in the history of the pageant. The bold moveÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
September 15, 2017
(AP) — One year after a Somali-American man went on a stabbing attack at a St. Cloud mall, injuring 10 people, city leaders say fears that theÃÂ ...
NewsBeat Social
September 14, 2017
UNITED NEWS INTERNATIONAL (UNI) — One Somali-American teen started out in a refugee camp but now she's working the runway as theÃÂ ...
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