Voices from Boston’s Somali Community
By Talia Whyte
While most people were buying last minute gifts and preparing for the first major snow storm of the season during Christmas weekend, approximately 2,000 Somali young people from around the country gathered at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center in Roxbury at the biannual National Somali Youth Conference. The theme of the conference was “The Lost Somali Youth: The Tribulation of Family.”
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