Tag: Somalis

  • More Refugee Girls Are College Bound, Flipping the Cultural Script

    Refugee children participate in an after-school tutoring program at the Somali Bantu Association of America in City Heights. The Somali Bantu ethnic minority group came to the United States more recently than Somalis who traveled here in the 1990s. Because they’re still gaining their footing on U.S. soil, their children are at high risk of…

  • The Bahati Mamas: Seeds for Change

    The Bahati Mamas, (front to back), Sitey Mbere, Hawa Ahamed and Maganey Ramazani, are transporting soil to a field at the Tierra Miguel farm in Escondido to prepare for the summer season. | Photo Credit: Famo Musa, The AjA Project By Binti Musa Binti Musa is a high school student and member of The AjA…

  • Somalis Linked to Al-Shabaab Want New Trial After NSA Revelations

    Mohamed Mohamud and Issa Doreh are shown in this 2010 courtroom drawing by Krentz Johnson. By Amita Sharma National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander said this week he does not know how to ferret out terrorist plots on U.S. soil without collecting the phone records of every American. Other supporters of the controversial NSA surveillance…