Life beyond the shadows
By Taylor Mullaney When Erendira Calderon graduated from high school as an undocumented student, she knew she would face an
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Immigration
Hoping for a dream deferred
By Taylor Mullaney A pop-up screen appeared, and she couldn’t continue the application. Surely, she thought, it was just a
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The Palestinian-American radio personality named Rush
A Palestinian-American videographer and radio personality films his first Jewish wedding and talks bias against and within the Palestinian community in Chicago.
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For immigrants, status and stigma affect mental health, few resources exist
Immigrants often deal with mental health impacts of being undocumented or being part of mixed status families. Story by Stephanie Manriquez, originally published in Contratiempo and The Gate.
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Iraqi minorities plead With lawmakers for more US aid
Iraqi minorities testified in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee with recommendations for U.S. government action on the self-proclaimed Islamic State’s attacks on religious minorities, particularly the Yazidi and Christian populations. By Mary Lee for Medill Social Justice Initiative.
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Demonstrators back Iranian dissidents in front of White House
Iranian-American rallied outside of the White House this morning calling for the U.S. to protect 2,500 Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) at Camp Liberty in Iraq. This coincides with the Iraqi prime minister’s visit with President Obama at the White House today.
Read moreFrom personal tragedy and terror, global hope
In Uganda, residents have survived decades of brutal civil war; abduction, rape and violence carried out as part of the
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