Music as a refuge

Hadithi Abdulle taught himself to play the oud as a child in Somalia, a childhood disrupted by civil war. Through the upheaval in his life, including racism in the US, this instrument has been his constant and his refuge. He also taught it at a center for grieving children in Maine. Reporter Caroline Losneck has his story.

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