A quick glance at a Rochester Senior Center bulletin board gives an idea of the typical activities — and culture — found there: An ice cream social, a hoedown, and afternoon tea. But a different kind ...

The city of St. Louis Park, Minnesota, made history on Election Day, becoming the first city in the United States to elect a Somali American as mayor. The winning candidate, 27-year-old Nadia Mohamed, ...

Early last year, I launched a pop-up in Los Angeles that gave birth to a new culinary idea that I had been toying with for over a decade. In a city that famously loves breakfast burritos, I began to ...

Mo Harawe makes history this Cannes Film Festival with debut feature The Village Next To Paradise, which is world premiering in Un Certain Regard as the first Somalian title to make it into Official ...

Minnesota educator and author Marian Hassan received a grant from the Minnesota Humanities Center to support her new children's book project that preserves the Somali language and traditional stories.

On Tuesday, 34-year-old Ilhan Omar became the first Somali-American lawmaker in the United States, winning a seat in the Minnesota House. She's a former refugee, a Muslim, a mom of three, and now the ...

NAIROBI, Kenya – Elite soldiers from Somalia made history at exercise Justified Accord 2024, taking part for their first ever mission abroad. A platoon-sized element joined over 20 other partner ...

FILE - Jill Duson, poses in this Dec. 13, 2008, file photo, near the Portland Observatory in Portland, Maine. Duson is the first Black woman elected to the Maine Senate.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, ...

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - At just 11 years old, Maine House Representative Mana Abdi and her family moved to Lewiston after leaving Somalia and later Kenya where she was born. It was at this age that she ...

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — A Democratic candidate is poised to become the first Somali American to serve in the Maine Legislature after her challenger dropped out of the race. Republican Fred ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Voters gave Democrats control of both chambers of the Maine Legislature for another two years — and made history by electing two Somali Americans to the House and the first ...