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Born with two strikes? These Somali Muslims in Minnesota find a home with Black Lives Matter

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It isn’t easy being Muslim and black in Minnesota, where there have been two police killings of black men in less than a year. But Somali immigrants are finding power in joining with their African American neighbors.It isn’t easy being Muslim and black in Minnesota, where there have been two police killings of black men in less than a year. But Somali immigrants are finding power in joining with their African American neighbors.

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